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Access Awareness
Week
May 28 to June 3, 2023
T11F MUNICIPALITY ON
CHESTER
WHEREAS the week of May 28 to June 3, 2023 is recognized as Access Awareness
Week; and
Access Awareness Week aims to celebrate achievements made both by and for persons
with disabilities in the areas of accessibility, transportation, housing, employment,
recreation, education, and communication; and
This is the 37th year that this public awareness initiative has taken place in Nova Scotia;
and
The theme for 2023 Access Awareness Week is Access includes Everyone: Moving the
Baron Quality of Life; and
WHEREAS barriers to inclusion are many and interconnected, removing and preventing
them is central to improving quality of life for all persons with disabilities; and
The foundation of Nova Scotia's Accessibility Act is achieving accessibility by ensuring
and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities through the identification, prevention
and removal of barriers; and
WHEREAS Access Awareness Week promotes the inclusion of all Nova Scotians with
disabilities as full citizens within our communities; and
Through public awareness, community partnerships and education, this campaign aims
to foster an environment of equal participation for persons with disabilities within the
Municipality of the District of Chester.
THEREFORE be it resolved that I, Warden Allen Webber, on behalf of the Municipality of
the District of Chester do hereby proclaim May 28 to June 3, 2023 as "Access Awareness
Week" in the Municipality of the District of Chester.
Dated at Chester, Nova Scotia this 11t' day of May, 2023.
Allen Webber
Warden