Senate Resolution No. 109

BY: Senator PARKER

MEMORIALIZING Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim
April 10, 2023, as Siblings Day in the State of New
York

WHEREAS, Siblings Day Foundation is a public non-profit charity
devoted to establishing Siblings Day for the benefit of our families,
our communities and our Nation; and

WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to memorialize
Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 10, 2023, as Siblings Day in the
State of New York, in conjunction with the observance of National
Siblings Day; and

WHEREAS, Native New Yorker, and Manhattan resident Claudia Evart
felt inspired to create the Siblings Day Foundation (SDF) after losing
both of her siblings early in life; and

WHEREAS, Under the luminous leadership of Claudia Evart, SDF founded
National Siblings Day to honor our brother(s) and/or sister(s), to be
celebrated annually on April 10, the birthday of her late sister,
Lisette; and

WHEREAS, Individuals can remember their siblings by sending a card
or a gift, making a phone call, making a dinner invitation, performing a
good deed, favor, errand or chore, and in cases of deceased siblings,
consciously holding them in their memory; and

WHEREAS, Siblings Day follows the spirit of Mother's Day, Father's
Day and Grandparent's Day, a great American tradition and celebration of
family-unit values; it is an uplifting festivity honoring people who
have shaped our values, beliefs and ideals; it is a relationship as
important as a parent's relationship; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 10, 2023, as
Siblings Day in the State of New York; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of New
York; and Claudia Evart, Founder, Siblings Day Foundation.