Proclamation Signed Observing Constitution Week

Stoddard County Court of Commissioners Carol Jarrell, Greg Mathis, and Steve Jordan.  Crowley’s Ridge Chapter NSDAR members Shirley Richard, Betty McClintock, Frances Moore, Shirley Carney

Constitution Week Proclamation was signed by Presiding Commissioner Greg Mathis on Monday, September 18, 2017 at the commissioners meeting.  

Government officials from the local, county, state and national level are ask by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to recognize September 17th as the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.

This proclamation closes with these words:

I, Greg Mathis, Presiding Commissioner, of the County of Stoddard in the State of Missouri, do hereby proclaim September 17 through 23, 2017 to be CONSTITUTION WEEK

AND ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals the Framers of the Constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties, remembering that lost rights many never be regained.

Crowley’s Ridge Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution encourage the citizens of our county to learn more about this magnificent document, the Constitution of the United States.

Pictured from left to right in front are Associate Commissioner Carol Jarrell, Greg Mathis, and Associate Commissioner Steve Jordan.  

Shown in the back from left to right are Shirley Richard, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Regent; Betty McClintock, DAR Recording Secretary; Frances Moore, DAR Past Regent; and Shirley Carney, DAR Treasurer.