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RESOLUTION NO: 7952-04 BY: Corrigan, Demro, Dever, Dunn, FitzGerald, Madigan, Seelie. A RESOLUTION to honor Paul Hunady for a lifetime of extraordinary citizen participation in local government, as exhibited by his decades of regular attendance at Lakewood City Council meetings, budget hearings, and charter review meetings, as well as his numerous campaigns for elected office whereby his contributions to our city were not calculated by the number of votes tabulated on Election Day, but rather by the clarity of his voice on numerous issues that have helped shape our common life. WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natoral manuré'; and WHEREAS, Paul Hunady proved himself the functional equivalent of a politièal arborist, as he fertilized the tree of liberty in Lakewood with the figurative blood of mayors and members of city council, as he would often relentlessly question previously unchallenged assumptions to ensure good government in our community; and WHEREAS, Paul Hunady performed an invaluable public service to our community by constantly remimling elected officials that their authority is temporary and solely derived from the will of the people, and that all public actions and judgments must conform to the highest ethical standards, as well as the laws, ordinances, and the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood; and WHEREAS, Paul Hunady is a lifelong resident and an eyewitness to Lakewood history, whereby he has lived 72 of his 75 years in a home built by his father on Lakewood Avenue, Paul Hunadýs recollections provide a first-hand account of the development of our community, which include: · A city where many residents grew vegetables and raised chickens in their backyards, and most roads were paved with bricks with streetcars running down Oilion Boulevard; · A community with a population that grew to nearly 80,000 residents, making it one of the most densely populated cities east of the Mississippi River; · When Plover Avenue in Bird Town was a main shopping street and the city was home to the Royal Theater, Lincoln Theater and Granada Theater, which hosted the Big Bands of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and 400 to 500 patrons would regularly stop for ice cream after a performance at PanY s deli; · Four dairies located in the city, including Dairyman's in Bird Tow", and a downtown department store, Baileý s, located at Warren and Detroit and 24-hour bowling at Bowling City located at Bunts and Detroit. WHEREAS, Aristotle said that "We have to learn civic virtue by practicing civic virtue"; and WHEREAS, Paul Hunady is a person of civic virtue, as evidenced by a lifetime of citizenship and active participation in the governance of Lakewood; now, therefore: BE IT RESOLVED BY THE OTY OF LAlŒWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: