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Council Members McPherson, Adams and Williams
Title
Recognizing the exemplary community leadership and service of Edwina "Tina" Butts, Founder of "The Movement", her community activism, and voter outreach events, such as "Souls to the Polls", aimed at engaging the community to become actively involved in the election process.
Summary
WHEREAS, Edwina "Tina" Butts, appears before the Council of the City of Toledo to be recognized as an exemplary role model for what an individual, regardless of the disadvantaged station born to, and whose adolescence resembled a forced run through a brutal, tragic and unmercifully gauntlet of emotional and mental assaults, can rise to with nothing more than a single minded focus, sheer will, and stubborn self-determination; and
WHEREAS, due to the death of her father and the illness of her mother, her family was divided through the court system where, from the ages of 12-14, she lived with her aunt and uncle and revered them as "Mom" and "Dad"; then, at the age of sixteen, through her determination, united her immediate family under one roof; became the sole provider for her family; and assumed the role matriarch making sure that her sister and brothers had a chance to graduate from high school and go onto to higher learning, if they so choose; and
WHEREAS, today, the character and reputation Ms. Butts has earned throughout the community, is founded on the mountain of accomplishments and success she accumulated using nothing more than a single minded focus, sheer will, intellectual wit, thirst for knowledge and education, and stubborn self-determination; and
WHEREAS, this record of accomplish included, working at Toledo Jeep; attending Toledo Academy Beauty School while working part time at the Northwest Ohio Development Center and acquiring a professional license in Chemical dependency; becoming a sole proprietor by buying and owning her own beauty salon; attending the University of Coldwell Bankers, Stautzenberger C...
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