HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 8190RESOLUTION NO. 8190
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF AZUSA
IN OBSERVANCE OF THE CITY'S
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
WHEREAS, one hundred years ago, on the Eleventh of April, Eighteen Hundred
and Eighty-seven, when Jonathan Sayre Slauson filed a Plat Map
with the County of Los Angeles for the City of Azusa, a newly nascent
municipality came into being after a long and often precariously
turbulent period of gestation. The Santa Fe Railroad was, in a
manner of speaking, both its midwife and circulatory system. Its
shiny new way pointed to a new expansion and development of hitherto
impossibly remote areas, and
WHEREAS, after this signal event, the City, gradually pulled a verdant cover
over its once open brush lands; a cover richly spotted with a new
and rich, pungently perfumed auriferous -hued fruit: citrus. A
great economy arose to bring to the City agricultural wealth that
quickly transformed unused land to the status of a renewable
resource; new bustle and hustle resounded through a municipality
stirred by the spark of a fulgent treasure trove, and
WHEREAS, the sound of A Z U S A was onomatopoetically transformed to a softly
sibilant zephyr heavy with the heady scent of ubiquitous orange
blossoms, pendant in an atmosphere made full by the endless lullaby
hummed by honey bees;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, recognizing
that although the orange groves have vanished, and that new challenges, new realities
and seemingly unsoluble frustrations confront us daily, this community stands ready to
face its Second Century of existence, armed with flexible resolve, but still soothed
by the languorous memory of its immortal past; a past that will forever burn brightly
in the hearts of all who love A Z U S A.
and Eighty-seven.
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED this Sixteenth day of March, Nineteen Hundred
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of Azusa, at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 16th
day of March, 1987, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: AVILA, COOK, CRUZ, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
CITY CLERK