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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 12
BY SENATOR CROWE
A RESOLUTION
To commend Isabel Caballero of Slidell upon being honored by the Prudential Spirit of
Community Awards as one of the top youth volunteers in Louisiana for 2014.
WHEREAS, the Prudential Spirit of Community awards are America's largest youth
recognition program based solely on volunteer service and are given in conjunction with the
National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP); and
WHEREAS, this recognition by Prudential and the NASSP was first awarded in 1995
and encourage participation in nominating teens in middle and high school by Girl Scouts
and Boy Scouts of America, Red Cross chapters, 4-H organizations, as well as all middle and
high schools in the country; and
WHEREAS, this award, now in its nineteenth year, recognizes students who involve
themselves in volunteer service, thus bringing positive change to their communities; and
WHEREAS, at fourteen, Isabel is a freshman at Mount Carmel Academy in New
Orleans where she has been on the honor roll and where, beyond her volunteer activities in
support of cancer research, she is also active in Junior Achievement; and
WHEREAS, Isabel founded the "Care and Cure Foundation", a nonprofit
organization that has raised more than one thousand dollars to benefit the American
Association of Cancer Research; and
WHEREAS, Isabel chose working to raise money to be donated to cancer research
as a way of honoring her grandmother, Shanette Bordelon Elder, who succumbed to cancer
in February 2011 after bouts with both breast and lung cancer; and
WHEREAS, Isabel has made and sold rainbow bracelets to raise money for her
foundation, emphasizing the necessity for curing all forms of cancer through research
concentrated on an overall cure; and
WHEREAS, Isabel, by way of her colorful bracelets, encourages everyone to be
"colorful for the cure" of cancer in all its forms. SR NO. 12 ENROLLED
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Isabel Caballero of Slidell on being named a distinguished finalist for
the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, recognizing her as one of the top youth
volunteers in Louisiana for 2014.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Isabel
Caballero, a student at Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans, and a resident of Slidell,
Louisiana.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE