SENATE RESOLUTION

                         2000-8767

By Senators Spanel, Haugen, Fraser and Snyder

     WHEREAS, Meritorious service and excellence in all fields of endeavor on the part of Washingtonians are worthy of recognition by the Washington State Senate; and

     WHEREAS, The fifth and sixth grade students of Lincoln Elementary School in Mount Vernon embarked upon an ambitious environmental research project, studying and documenting damage the noxious weed, Spartina, has done to the Padilla Bay estuary northwest of Mount Vernon; and

     WHEREAS, The project, one of thousands judged in a national contest, won the Time For Kids Environmental Challenge; and

     WHEREAS, The students with their student leaders Anna Hansen, Michael Marsh, Michael Bazan, Kayla King, Seth Morris, Kyle Brown, Allison Hamburg, and Eboni Washington, and their teachers, Michael Guelker-Cone and Teresa Vaughn, will be recognized for their hard work in the special April AKid Heroes for the Planet@ issue of Time For Kids magazine;

     NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the members of the Washington State Senate, on behalf of the people of our state, do hereby recognize and acknowledge the outstanding leadership and commitment to improving the environment demonstrated by the fifth and sixth graders at Lincoln Elementary School; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be immediately transmitted by the Secretary of the Senate to Lincoln Elementary School.

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate,

do hereby certify that this is a true and

correct copy of Senate Resolution 2000-8767,

adopted by the Senate March 7, 2000.

TONY M. COOK

Secretary of the Senate