A PROCLAMATION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POMONA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, PROCLAIMING MARCH 11, 2023 TO BE SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY YOUTH DAY IN THE CITY OF POMONA WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., is a nonprofit collegiate sorority dedicated to the encouragement and promotion of high scholastic attainment, community service, and improvement in the quality of life through its chapters, members, and affiliates located throughout the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates; and WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., through its mission seeks to address programs, projects, and concerns that impact society educationally, socially, politically, and economically; and WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. is sponsoring its Twenty Sixth Annual Youth Symposium simultaneously in local communities across the nation on Saturday, March 11, 2023; and WHEREAS: the local members of Lambda Gamma Sigma Pomona Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., will hold their symposium on March 11, 2023 at the dA Center for the Arts located at 252 S. Main St. St. D, Pomona, California 91768; and WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., through this year’s nationwide symposium agenda, will seek to help youths come to grips with peer-pressuring challenges that may deal with making healthy choices, healthy living, healthy generation; and WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., has called upon the participation of a panel of community authorities to share facts regarding some of the challenges that may be faced by young people who have self-esteem and peer pressure issues; and WHEREAS: Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., is requesting all area junior/senior high schools, sororities/fraternities, social/civic organizations, and youth services agencies to support the intent of this symposium by promoting the attendance and participation of their students and youth groups:
WHEREAS: our residents join with me in congratulating and recognizing the members of Lambda Gamma Sigma Pomona Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., for their efforts to encourage and guide our youth. As such, we wish for the chapter and the sorority much success in all of their future endeavors.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POMONA does hereby proclaim March 11, 20233 as “SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY YOUTH DAY”.
Dated this 6th day of March, 2023