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<br />CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br />OFFICE OF THE MAYOR <br />~ P R O C L A M A T I O N ~ <br /> SOPHIE SKIBA DAY <br /> May 4, 2013 <br /> <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sophie Czyscon Skiba was born on May 4, 1913, in the city of Minneapolis. At the age of <br />two, Sophie’s family moved to Wisconsin where they took up farming. Sophie and her nine siblings helped with <br />the farming chores. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, at the age of 16, Sophie left home to find work in Minneapolis. It was there in Minneapolis <br />at a dance that Sophie met her future husband, Walter Skiba. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sophie and Walter Skiba married in 1934, taking up residence on land Walter Skiba’s family <br />had been farming for many years in what was then Mounds View Township, alongside Highway 8 (prior to the <br />construction of Interstate 35W) where the Mermaid, Central Sandblasting, McDonalds and other businesses <br />now operate. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, in 1970, Walter and Sophie Skiba built a home on Long Lake Road where Sophie continues <br />to live to this day. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sophie has many interests and hobbies, including gardening and flowers, but her passion is, <br />and always has been, her family. “I am rich in Family”, Sophie would often remark. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Sophie Skiba is a proud Mounds View resident through and through, and has been since the <br />day she married Walter Skiba some 78 years ago. <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, it is with great pleasure and honor that I, Joe Flaherty, <br />Mayor of the City of Mounds View, do hereby proclaim May 4, 2013, the centennial anniversary of Sophie <br />Skiba’s birth, to be: <br /> SOPHIE SKIBA DAY <br /> <br />In the City of Mounds View. <br /> <br />Given under my hand and Seal of the City of Mounds View, this 22rd day of April 2013. <br /> <br /> <br />(Seal) _________________________________________ <br />Joe Flaherty, Mayor