Downey resident Mikayla Minnig took a copy of The Downey Patriot when she traveled to Washington, D.C. earlier this month. At the request of Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Mikayla joined the Congressional Arthritis Cacucus, representing the 300,000 American children and 46 million American adults with arthritis. Mikayla also wrote a letter to President Obama and Sec. Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Sciences to continue arthritis research at the National Institute of Health. ********** Published: March 17, 2011 - Volume 9 - Issue 48