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SCR101.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ADELIA GARRO SIMPLOT - Stating findings of the Legislature and honoring
Adelia Garro Simplot for her hard work in helping to create the Basque
Museum and Cultural Center and for her appointment as Honorary Vice Consul
of Spain to Idaho.
01/14 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
01/15 10th ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Sorensen
Title apvd - to House
House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
01/30 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
01/31 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/03 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Field(18)
Title apvd - to Senate
02/04 To enrol
02/05 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
02/06 Sp signed
02/10 To Secretary of State
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session - 2003
IN THE SENATE
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 101
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
2 COMMENDING ADELIA GARRO SIMPLOT FOR HER INDUSTRIOUSNESS AND HARD WORK IN MAK-
3 ING THE DREAM OF THE BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER BECOME A REALITY
4 AND FOR HER APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN AS HONORARY VICE CONSUL
5 OF SPAIN TO IDAHO.
6 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
7 WHEREAS, in 1983, Adelia Garro Simplot purchased the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga
8 Boarding House at 607 Grove Street in Boise with the idea of preserving the
9 building and its historical importance to the Basque population; and
10 WHEREAS, Adelia Garro Simplot made the mortgage payments for the boarding
11 house property from November 1983 to December 1986 and, with her husband
12 Richard R. Simplot, made a Deed of Gift, "For and in consideration of our love
13 and affection for the Basque heritage and history in the State of Idaho..."
14 donating it to the Basque Cultural Center of Idaho, Inc. with the official
15 dedication ceremony being held on June 19, 1987; and
16 WHEREAS, the purchase of the next building at 611 Grove Street in Boise,
17 which is today the actual Basque Museum and Cultural Center exhibition build-
18 ings and offices, was completed on December 1, 1988, with Adelia Garro Simplot
19 and Patty Miller assisting; and
20 WHEREAS, the old Cub Tavern at 202 South Capitol Boulevard was established
21 in 1948 and, with the foresight of Adelia Garro Simplot and Romaine Gailey Hon
22 and under the legal counsel of Willis E. Sullivan III, was saved by the Basque
23 Cultural Center of Idaho, Inc., and Oppenheimer Development Corporation and
24 became the Gernika Basque Pub and Eatery; and
25 WHEREAS, in June 1993, Adelia Garro Simplot and Richard Hormaechea pur-
26 chased the Briggs Engineering Building at 619 Grove Street in Boise, and the
27 vision of a Basque block for the citizens of Idaho was completed; and
28 WHEREAS, the foresight, initiative and dedication of hundreds of volun-
29 teers have made the dream envisioned by Adelia Garro Simplot in 1983 a real-
30 ity; and
31 WHEREAS, the Basque Museum and Cultural Center is the only Basque museum
32 in the entire United States; and
33 WHEREAS, Adelia Garro Simplot has been appointed by the Spanish Ambassador
34 to the United States, Javier Ruperez, as Honorary Vice Consul of Spain to
35 Idaho to assist persons traveling to Spain.
36 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
37 of the Fifty-seventh Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Represen-
38 tatives concurring therein, that we take this opportunity to congratulate and
39 commend Adelia Garro Simplot for her meritorious appointment by the Government
40 of Spain and for her foresight, initiative, leadership and philanthropy in
41 mobilizing hundreds of volunteers to help create the Basque Museum and Cul-
42 tural Center, a treasure to the citizens of Idaho.
43 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate shall forward a
44 copy of this resolution to Adelia Garro Simplot.