[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 34 (Monday, February 25, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CHET HITT RECEIVES THE DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

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                             HON. PAUL COOK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, February 25, 2019

  Mr. COOK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the service and 
commitment of Chet Hitt, who received the Distinguished Community 
Service Award from the Victor Valley College Foundation on February 23, 
2019.
  Chet was born in the High Desert and has lived in Apple Valley for 
most of his life. Always ambitious and driven, Chet's entrepreneurial 
spirit came alive when he began to control High Desert mortuary 
business market. In 1997, he became partners with the owner of a prior 
competitor, Victor Valley Mortuary, and within three years they were 
able to purchase four additional mortuaries in the High Desert. Chet 
has served on the Board of Trustees of St. Mary Hospital, where he is 
the only Board Member to have been born at that hospital, and also sits 
on the Board for Friends of the Fair for the San Bernardino County 
Fairgrounds. He was named the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce Citizen 
of the Year in 2002, and was named Service-Based Entrepreneur of the 
Year at the 2017 Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards for the Inland 
Empire. Chet serves as Chairman of the Board of the Sunset Hills 
Children's Foundation and the Topock 66 Children's Foundation.
  Chet Hitt is one of the most kind, generous, and hard-working people 
in the High Desert, and is eminently deserving of this award. I offer 
my sincere congratulations to Chet on this recognition and my thanks 
for all the outstanding work he does in our community.

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