[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9643]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            CONGRATULATING YOUTHHOPE ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

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                           HON. CHERI BUSTOS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, June 15, 2015

  Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate YouthHope on 
its 20th anniversary.
  For two decades now, YouthHope has been a safe, educational, and fun 
environment for children and teens from the Illinois Quad-Cities. 
YouthHope is an excellent example of how a group of dedicated citizens 
can have an outsized impact on their community. As a mother, I 
appreciate how important it is to protect our children and provide them 
with positive role models, encouragement and avenues to success, the 
very elements that YouthHope has provided to our young people for the 
last twenty years.
  The staff, volunteers and everyone else involved at YouthHope should 
be truly proud of the impact that they have had on young people's lives 
in the Quad-Cities. I hope that others in our community and throughout 
the entire state of Illinois and country will look to YouthHope as a 
model for strengthening and giving back to the areas in which we live.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to again congratulate YouthHope on its 20th 
anniversary. I look forward to hearing more about YouthHope's good work 
over the next twenty years and beyond.

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