HomeMy WebLinkAbout03 - Proclamation - "Let's Be Kind" Costa Mesa Month - 3/16/2021
WHEREAS, in 2018, Rebekah Robeck a visionary student from Costa Mesa Middle
High School saw a need for inclusiveness among her peers. It was hard for Rebekah to
know how to handle unkind peers who would step on her shoes, call her names and make
fun of her, she knew she could spread kindness as it was shown to her when she and her
brother moved to El Salvador as children; and
WHEREAS, Rebekah recognized that being unkind diminishes students of a fun
and fulling experience at school and demonstrated leadership by creating opportunities
to provide purposeful acts of kindness to cultivate a sense of community; and
WHEREAS, it was the church and community members who through their kind
gestures and acts of kindness made Rebekah and her brother feel welcomed and part of
the community; and
WHEREAS, in 2018 Rebekah delivered 200 pizza slices with kind messages to her
peers in an attempt to show her peers kindness; and
WHEREAS, it evolved from pizza slices, to designer T-shirts, to more campuses
joining in on what became “Let’s Be Kind” day, to raising over $9000 to purchase 2100 T-
shirts for the entire Costa Mesa Middle and High schools; and
WHEREAS, in April 25, 2019, a combined effort of three schools led to over 3000
T-shirts being handed out to students and faculty staff; and
WHEREAS, on April 2021 will mark the fourth annual “Let’s be Kind” day, and
WHEREAS, Rebekah’s mission to unite her peers embodies the City’s mission of
providing a safe, inclusive and vibrant community, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Katrina Foley, Mayor of the City of
Costa Mesa, do hereby proclaim the month of April as “Let’s Be Kind Costa Mesa Month”
and urge all residents, children and adults to recognize and celebrate this month with kind
gestures to others. Kindness is contagious and we can all participate in our own ways.
PRESENTED this 16th day of March, 2021
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Katrina Foley, Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa