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PRINTER'S NO. 1508
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
306
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY COLLETT, IOVINO, LEACH, DINNIMAN, J. WARD,
SANTARSIERO, COSTA AND BROWNE, FEBRUARY 4, 2020
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, FEBRUARY 4, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Designating February 21, 2020, as "Keith Valley Challenge Day"
in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, In 1977, Keith Valley Middle School in Montgomery
County held a floor hockey marathon to honor the memory of Billy
Whitehead, an eighth-grade student who passed away due to a rare
congenital heart defect; and
WHEREAS, In his memory, the staff and eighth-grade students
at Keith Valley began holding the Billy Whitehead Marathon and
pledged to raise money on an annual basis for St. Christopher's
Hospital for Children, located in Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, The marathon was renamed the Keith Valley Challenge
in 1981, and students began to donate the money raised during
the event to additional charities; and
WHEREAS, The Keith Valley Challenge is a 14-hour nonstop
floor hockey marathon; and
WHEREAS, Last year's challenge raised $51,103; and
WHEREAS, Over the last 43 years, Keith Valley students have
raised and donated more than $1,151,941 to 14 charities,
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including the American Cancer Society, the American Heart
Association, the ALS Foundation and Ronald McDonald House; and
WHEREAS, This year, students are raising money for the Make-
A-Wish Foundation; and
WHEREAS, The 44th annual Keith Valley Challenge is scheduled
to kick off February 21; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate February 21, 2020, as
"Keith Valley Challenge Day" in Pennsylvania.
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