2021 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 53
BY SENATOR ROBERT MILLS
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend the city of Minden, Louisiana, for its outstanding fundraising efforts for St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital and for raising more money per capita for St. Jude
than any other city in the United States.
WHEREAS, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has continuously been one of the
world's premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other
catastrophic childhood diseases since its founding by the late entertainer Danny Thomas in
1962; and
WHEREAS, St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as
a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute; and
WHEREAS, children from all fifty states and from around the world have come
through the doors of St. Jude for treatment; and
WHEREAS, thousands more children around the world have benefitted from the
research conducted at St. Jude that the hospital shares freely with the global medical
community; and
WHEREAS, St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families
never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance; and
WHEREAS, despite the pandemic and some significant hurdles in 2020 and 2021,
the city of Minden and surrounding communities raised $1,655,349.00 during the 2021
Auction for the Kids to benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, thereby raising
more money per capita for St. Jude than any other city in the United States.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend the city of Minden, Louisiana, for its outstanding fundraising efforts for St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital and for raising more money per capita for St. Jude than any
other city in the United States.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
city of Minden through its mayor, Terry Gardner.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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