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Friday, January 19, 2001

RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER


In addition to lighting-up the Westminster City Hall and Clock Tower in purple light - Westminster Mayor and Common Council, appointed officials, and staff where Ravens t-shirts in celebration of Ravens Week in Westminster January 18, 2001

RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER

PRESS RELEASE - January 18, 2001

Contact: Mayor Kenneth A. Yowan 410-848-2522

WESTMINSTER'S SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE BALTIMORE RAVENS

As the summer home of the Baltimore Ravens' Training Camp at Western Maryland College, and to express the overwhelming support of the City of Westminster in the Ravens' bid for the Super Bowl XXXV Championship, the following arrangements have been made:

A Mayor's Proclamation will be presented during the Monday, January 22, 2001 Mayor and Council Meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m., declaring the week of January 22, 2001 through January 28, 2001 "Ravens Week in Westminster" 

Ravens AFC Champion banners will be hung on city light poles.

Support banners will be hung across Main Street.

City Hall and the old Clock Tower will be awash in purple light.

The Press and members of the public are welcome and invited to attend the Monday, January 22, 2001 Council Meeting.

KENNETH A. YOWAN, Mayor

KAY: ked

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MAYOR’S PROCLAMATION

                                  RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER

WHEREAS, once upon a midnight dreary some seventeen years ago, the fans of the State of Maryland, and the City of Westminster lost their beloved National Football League team. And for year after year eagerly wished the morrow, dreaming dreams that no mortal had ever dared to dream before, but for twelve long years the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token; and

WHEREAS, in October 1995, there came a tapping at our chamber door, a tapping louder than before, and when the shutters were flung open, in there stepped the stately RAVENS of the saintly days of yore; and

WHEREAS, in the summer of 1996, these proud birds landed on the campus of Western Maryland College in Westminster to conduct training camp prior to their inaugural season as our proud reentry into the National Football League; and

WHEREAS, only five years later, led by Brian Billick and sporting the most tenacious defense ever known, this ebony bird has beguiled my formerly sad fancy into smiling, and opponent after opponent now pleads "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" but the proud RAVENS quoth "Nevermore"; and

WHEREAS, this coming Sunday evening, it is our fervent belief that come the end of the game, there will be the RAVENS, never flitting, but rather sitting atop the NFL standings, merely this, and nothing more,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kenneth A. Yowan, Mayor of the City of Westminster, do hereby proclaim the week of January 22-28, 2001 as RAVENS WEEK IN WESTMINSTER, in recognition of their SUPER season, and I commend this observance to all our citizens and encourage one and all to show their support by "thinking purple" through garb and decoration.


Signed at City Hall, this
Twenty-Second day of January
in the year Two Thousand One.                                              


KENNETH A. YOWAN

    Mayor
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