WHEREAS Amateur radio operators are celebrating over a century of radio,

and the Falmouth Amateur Radio Association (FARA) is celebrating more

than 85 years; and

WHEREAS Amateur radio has provided, and continues to provide, a bridge

between peoples, societies and countries by creating friendships and

sharing ideas worldwide; and

WHEREAS Amateur radio operators have provided countless hours of

community services in emergencies and local organizations throughout

these decades; and

WHEREAS These amateur radio services are provided without compensation;

and

WHEREAS The Town recognizes the services FARA provides to our many

emergency response organizations, including the Falmouth Fire & Rescue

Department; and

WHEREAS FARA has further demonstrated their value in public assistance

by providing communications for local events such as the Falmouth Road

Race and the Cape Cod Marathon; and

WHEREAS The Town of Falmouth recognizes and appreciates the diligence of

these hams who also serve as weather spotters in the Skywarn program of

the United States’ Weather Bureau; and

WHEREAS The American Radio Relay League is the national organization for

Amateur Radio in the United States; and

WHEREAS The League’s Field Day exercise will take place on June 24-25,

2017, and is a 24hour emergency preparedness exercise and demonstration

of the radio amateurs’ skills and readiness to provide self supporting

communications without further infrastructure being required.

NOW, THEREFORE, WE Susan L. Moran, Megan English Braga, Doug Jones,

Samuel H. Patterson and Douglas C. Brown, as Selectmen of the Town of

Falmouth, by the authority vested in us, do hereby PROCLAIM,

JUNE 19-25, 2017 AS AMATEUR RADIO WEEK

IN WITNESS THEREOF, we have hereunto set our hand and caused the great

seal of the Town of Falmouth to be affixed.