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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5312in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D7C016.139DC840"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Oct. 13, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Gov. Little proclaims October Idaho Health Care Worker Appreciation Month<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little on Monday proclaimed the month of October “Idaho Health Care Worker Appreciation Month,” and encouraged all Idahoans to seek out the health care workers
in their lives and communities and show their respect, appreciation, and support for the sacrifices health care workers are making to get us through an unprecedented public health crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little is traveling the state this week to thank health care workers in hospitals across Idaho, and more and more students, families, and communities are finding creative ways
to show their gratitude for these heroes of the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The full text of the Governor’s proclamation follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, staff at Idaho hospitals and long-term care facilities are overwhelmed and working tirelessly and heroically to meet the needs of patients and residents
during the COVID-19 pandemic; and <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, health care staff are in the midst of an unprecedented and devastating wave of critically ill patients and are exhausting all resources to expand and
deliver health care to them; and <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, these health care heroes are putting the health, safety and wellbeing of these patients and residents in their charge ahead of their own; and
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, these health care heroes continue to respond to and care for each patient, despite the challenges, despair, and the unknown; and
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, through their dedication and fortitude, against a devastating enemy, they work together to save lives and help guide Idahoans in all their health care
needs; and <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHEREAS, health care workers deserve our respect, appreciation, and steadfast support for being there for every Idahoan during these difficult times.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NOW THEREFORE, I, BRAD LITTLE, Governor of Idaho, do hereby proclaim October 2021 to be
<b>Idaho Health Care Worker Appreciation Month </b>in Idaho, and I ask all Idahoans to step up and speak out in support of the health care workers in their communities, to remind them they are critical to our health and well-being, and to show them they have
our utmost admiration.</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;layout-grid-mode:char"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho
at the Capitol in Boise on this 12<sup>th</sup> day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-one.
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<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Marissa Morrison, Press Secretary</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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