[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22084]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        HONORING RANDY KEVORKIAN

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 8, 2001

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Randy Kevorkian 
for receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the California 
Department of Corrections. The California Department of Corrections 
presents the award annually to employees who go above and beyond the 
call of duty.
  Randy Kevorkian is a Parole Agent III. He has been an agent since 
1988 and has worked in numerous assignments in the Visalia and Fresno 
parole offices. Kevorkian organized the ``Another Way'' program, a 
juvenile delinquency prevention and intervention program in the Central 
Valley. The program allows parole agents and parolees to speak with 
atrisk kids about the dangers of drugs and gangs.
  Over the past 13 years, Kevorkian has addressed more than 85,000 
young people and made more than 1,200 presentations at junior and 
senior high schools, local juvenile halls and group homes.
  The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded for an employee's 
exemplary work conduct with the department for a period of months or 
years, or involvement in a specific assignment of unusual benefit to 
the department.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize Randy Kevorkian for earning the 
Distinguished Service Award from the California Department of 
Corrections. I urge my colleagues to join me in wishing Mr. Kevorkian 
many more years of continued success.

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