HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 09 08 Presented During Awards and Presentations 302Date: September 8, 2008
The attached was presented during Awards and
Presentations "302" during the September 8,
2008 City Commission Regular Meeting.
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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA
WHEREAS, Lukas Nursery is one of Florida's largest Nursery & Garden
Shops, representing the fourth generation of family agriculture in the Oviedo area;
and
WHEREAS, Lukas Nursery established Lukas Butterfly Encounter, a Butterfly
Science Exhibit, as an innovative agricultural pursuit in the fine tradition of
Oviedo, and for the educational benefit of Oviedo and the surrounding Orlando
area; and
WHEREAS, Lukas Butterfly Encounter is Florida's first conservatory to sell a
complete line of butterfly gardening plants, including the hard-to-get host plants
which feed the caterpillars, thereby increasing wild habitat and wild populations of
Florida's native butterflies; and
WHEREAS, Lukas Butterfly Encounter is Florida's largest native butterfly
conservatory and raises all of the species of caterpillar's and butterflies on display,
making it unique among the nation's largest "Butterfly Houses"; and
WHEREAS, Lukas Butterfly Encounter displays hundreds of live butterflies
and more than 30 native Florida species, which include 11 exotic tropical species;
and
WHEREAS, Lukas Butterfly Encounter, one of Central Florida's top 13
Museums and Science Centers, will be celebrating four years of operation with the
2008 Oviedo Butterfly & Nature Art Show, featuring fine arts and fine crafts, live
Florida animals and a "national caliber" butterfly festival.
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_~, (~~~~', ~°~I~,I-~~~FC~I~I~~, ~ .~~~I~1 F.. I3'[._7~~-~, Mayor of the Ciry of Winter
Springs, do hereby proclaim September 20-212008 as;
"Butterfly Encounter Weekend"
In the City of Winter Springs and urge all residents to celebrate the beauty of
butterflies, the cross-pollination benefits they bring to our gardens, their
contribution to biodiversity and the food chain, and the magical way they make us
smile when they flutter by.
IR' WITNESS w~-IEREOF, I hereunto have set
my hand and caused the Seal of the City of
Winter Springs to be affixed this St" day of
September, 2008.
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HN F. BUSH, MAYOR
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CLERK
John F. Bush
Mayor
Robert S. Miller Rick Brown Donald A. Gilmore Sally McGinnis Joanne M. Krebs
Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner