Backup Documents 09/15/2009 Item # 4C
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PROCLAMA TION
WHEREAS, the Naples Daily News Media Group is celebrating the opening of a new
state-of- the-art facility built on Immokalee Road in Naples
demonstrating its commitment to the citizens of and visitors to
Southwest Florida by providing excellence in media publications: and,
WHEREAS, the Naples Daily News, Bonita Daily News, The Banner, Marco Eagle,
Collier Citizen, Vista Semanal, The Journals, Naples Sun Times, Real
Estate Marketplace, and the Marco Magazine form the backbone of the
Naples News Media Group with the addition of an extensive internet
communication network: and,
WHEREAS, any civilized society can be measured by its daily media and how it
shapes the dominant cultural, social, and political pictures of society and
it is essential for the intellectual, political, and business well-being of a
diverse community, Q$ CDllier ClJunty, to be well-served by its media
communications: lIIId,
WHEREAS, by dedicatiot1 flIId tlXeellence of the staff employed by the Naples News
Media GtYJup, CDJIier County is provided with new$MPers and magazines
that reflect the essential elements of oursocillty. disseminating news,
infortlNltk1n~ and opinitJll$ for public consumption tIIId IJIWviding a level of
coml1litmtMt to the SUCcess of the community it sefWS,' and,
WHEREAS, the ctlIIII.fIUIorative issue of the Naples Dally News will cover the unique
history of the Naples Daily News thus becoming a kellp$flke.
NOW THEREFORE, be itpt'tlClaimed by the Board of County C_",;$$ioners of Collier
County, FItJIWIa, thot September 26, 2009, be desigIIIlted as
NAPLES NEWS MEDIA GROtIf/J DAY
DONE AND ORDERED THIS J 5th Day of September, 2009.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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