HM 94 — DEE RUSANOWSKI, IN RECOGNITION

HOUSE MEMORIAL 94 54TH LEGISLATURE- STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSIO, 2019 INTRODUCED BY Brian Egolf 6 8 10 A MEMORIAL FONDLY RECALLING DEE'S RESTAURANT AND RECOGNIZING DEE RUSANOWSKI, WHO CONTINUES TO DISH UP GOOD FOOD AND WARM COMMUNITY AT SAVEUR.

156 WHEREAS, Santa Fe has always been known for its abundance of great restaurants, diners, food emporiums and eateries;

and e t 17 WHEREAS, residents who lived in Santa Fe in the 1970s and w l n d 18 1980s will fondly remember Dee's restaurant, also known as = = 19 a l Dee's donuts, on Washington avenue, where el meson is now i a e r 20 located;

and a t m m 21 WHEREAS, Dee Rusanowski and her husband, Bernie, moved to d r e 22 New Mexico from California in 1975 and opened Dee's restaurant c e s k 23 in 1976;

and e a n b 24 WHEREAS, kids from that time especially remember grabbing u [ one of Dee's doughnuts on the way to school or grabbing a .215157.2 brownie or hamburger or another doughnut after school or on the weekends;

and HM 94 WHEREAS, Dee's restaurant had video games as an Page 1 additional lure, if the delicious and inexpensive food was not enough;

and e e 17 WHEREAS, after eight years of retirement and volunteering e e n d 18 with organizations like the Lensic performing arts center, the = = l ] 19 salvation army and the monastery of Christ in the desert, Dee a l r i 20 and Bernie realized that they missed the restaurant life;

and t e a t WHEREAS, the food and happy customers and the social m m 21 e d r e 22 engagement that a restaurant entails were so seductive that in c e r c 23 2003 Dee and Bernie bought saveur, a French restaurant on e a n b 24 Montezuma avenue, and were back in the business;

and u [ WHEREAS, saveur is a cozy, intimate restaurant where Dee .215157.2 - 2 - greets customers at the door and provides social commentary and exudes happiness;

and WHEREAS, the French-inspired café tempts with delicious pastries but offers many healthy options as well, including chilled roasted vegetables on the lunch buffet and pink salmon filets and grilled chicken breasts for a build-your-ownbuild-your- HM 94 Page 2 own salad;

and WHEREAS, some of the kids who frequented Dee's restaurant grew up to be teachers, government employees, politicians and business owners, and are now customers of saveur, but still e e 17 reminisce about easier times and the simple pleasures of video e e n d 18 games and doughnuts and hamburgers and, oh, those brownies;

= = l ] 19 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF a l r i 20 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the food and t e a t community embodied by Dee's restaurant of the past be fondly m m 21 e d r e 22 recalled;

and c e r c 23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Dee and Bernie Rusanowski be e a n b 24 recognized for their ongoing gift of good food and warm u [ community at saveur;

and .215157.2 - 3 - BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be transmitted to Dee and Bernie Rusanowski.

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