Arthritis Awareness Month
September 2010

WHEREAS, The Arthritis Society is Canada's principal arthritis health charity dedicated to funding and promoting arthritis education, research-based solutions and community-based support; and

WHEREAS, Arthritis is a serious disease affecting 4.5 million Canadians with over 85,000 of those living in the Kingston area; and

WHEREAS, this disease affects people of all ages, of which, sixty percent are under the age of 65; and

WHEREAS, there continues to be an immense need to raise funds for sustained research in order to develop better methods of treatment, and ultimately find a cure for this debilitating disease;

THEREFORE, I, Harvey Rosen, Mayor of the City of Kingston, do hereby proclaim September 2010 as "Arthritis Awareness Month" in the City of Kingston.

DATED at Kingston this 25th day of August, 2010
Harvey Rosen, Mayor