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Busch Garden’s Howl-O-Scream Lowry Park Zoo — the largest family Howl-O-Scream®, Busch Garden’s premier Halloween event in Tampa Bay. It’s a Time to Halloween event, is back select nights from ghoulish good time for all. Don’t miss the start September 21 through October 28, 2018 with thrills, chills and family frights with tormenting surprises around every corner and attractions ranging in “scare factor” including planning for unexpected terrors. haunted houses, seasonal displays and lights, a specialty gift shop, night rides and more. Halloween The streets will be swarmed with hundreds of Tickets will go on sale online in September fun! roaming creatures, making escape nearly at www.LowryParkZoo.org. impossible. Chilling live shows and the chance to challenge Florida’s top thrill rides Sea World’s Halloween Spooktacular in the dark will keep the screams coming all Join SeaWorld® Orlando weekends in Don your favorite costume and get ready to night. September and October for silly spooky fun trick-or-treat at this Halloween-themed at SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular®. Howl-O-Scream starts at 7:30 p.m. each event event held each fall in Magic Kingdom Children and adults alike will be immersed in night. Arrive early to challenge thrills rides, park! an underwater "fantasea" filled with trick-or- including North America’s tallest treating, dancing sea creatures and pumpkin Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party freestanding drop tower Falcon’s Fury™ and fish, where kids can also create sea-themed Dress up for this “not-so-scary” occasion Florida’s first triple-launch coaster Cheetah arts and crafts. ® where all kinds of candies and sweets are Hunt , and have time to dine before being SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular takes just waiting for you to find. You’ll soon one of the first to experience the horror of place from September 22 - October 28th and discover all the boo-tiful ways that the Howl-O-Scream 2018. is included with park admission. Costumes spirits of the season have transformed the Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror are not required, but are encouraged. park into a happy haunted hallows… that Nights includes seeing many favorite Disney On select nights from September 14th Trick or Treat - Kids can follow the special Characters dressed in their very own through November 3rd, 2018, the streets of Halloween Spooktacular pathways through Halloween costumes! Universal Studios Florida® theme park come many different stations filled with a wide array of sweets and treats as fun loving sea Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party alive with hordes of horrifying mutants, creatures greet and mingle with guests. Hop will start earlier than ever this year, with monsters and maniacs. With years of aboard the Seven Seas Railway with Otto the parties running on Aug. 17, 24 ,28, 31; Sept. experience to draw from, nobody creates a Octopus and enjoy a whimsical train ride 3, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30; more nightmarish Halloween event filled with through Shamu's Happy Harbor®. Oct. 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, truly original scares and authentic horror 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, and 31st. The event will movie moments. You can explore feature trick-or-treating, the Hocus Pocus terrifying haunted houses, make your Villain Spelltacular stage show, Mickey’s way through multiple scare zones where “Boo-to-You” Halloween Parade and creatures lurk around every turn, enjoy “Happy HalloWishes.” outrageous live shows, and experience many of the park’s most exciting rides Since the tone of this event is “not-so- and attractions. scary,” that means children of all ages can enjoy all the fun! For ticket prices, be sure Lowry park’s Creatures of the Night to check online for more information and Select Dates in September and October schedules for parades and fireworks. Come creep around ZooBoo at Tampa’s
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Date: September 15, 2018 Patriot Day (Sept 11) History
Location: Patriot Day is a day the US remembers the terrorist attacks on Amalie Arena September 11, 2001. This day is commonly referred to as 9-11 401 Channelside Dr. Tampa, FL 33602 (Nine-Eleven). It is believed that 2,977 people died in the attacks. President George W. Bush proclaimed September 11th Patriot Day Registration for the St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood in 2002. Cancer is $10 for adults and children ages six and up to walk and $20.00 for adults and children six and up to run 5K. Patriot Day Facts Participants are encouraged to form teams and raise funds to On September 11th, US Flags should be flown at half mast - support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude, with incentives beginning at the $100 fundraising level. To register and learn both on US soil and abroad. additional event details, visit stjude.org/walk A moment of silence is held at 8:46 a.m. (EST) across the nation - commemorating the time the first plane struck the North Registration: Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. 6:30 am The National September 11 Memorial and Museum takes up Ceremony: over half of the destroyed World Trade Center site. It contains 8:00 am bronze parapets inscribed with the names of those killed on Run/Walk Starts: 8:30 am September 11, 2001 and those killed in the 1993 World Trade More Information: Center attack. Log onto: stjude.org/walk Cleaning up Ground Zero, as the World Trade Center was for more information and details renamed, took 18 months and 19 days, and was completed in May of 2002. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were once the tallest buildings in the world, and contained enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York City to Washington D.C. Ideas how to honor Patriot Day Visit the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City if possible. Observe a moment of silence. Attend a 9/11 Memorial Service. Share with a group of children your memories of 9/11 and how the events of the day forever changed America. Show support for local police and firemen as a way to honor the emergency personnel who gave their lives on 9/11.
History of Labor Day
Labor Day: What it Means Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Labor Day Legislation Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
Founder of Labor Day More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.
The First Labor Day The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.
A Nationwide Holiday The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television.
The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.
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Foods To Keep Away From fatigue and listlessness, rapid heartbeat and include depression, fever, muscle weakness darkened urine or vomiting as the disease and vomiting. Really, you should never Your Family Dog progresses. feed your dog nuts, says Hartogensis, but especially not macadamia nuts. Many of us know 2. Spoiled food that chocolate is not Look, if you wouldn’t eat it, neither should 6. Salty snacks good for our furry your dog. Anything with mold on it or that Just like humans, dogs shouldn’t eat too friends, but there smells questionable should go straight into much salt. In fact, foods with excessive are many of other the trash. sodium levels can cause sodium ion poisoning. While a singular pretzel or foods your dog 3. Fried foods potato chip isn’t cause for the emergency should stay clear of. Extremely fatty foods like fried chicken are room, dogs have been known to get into Remember, the very toxic to dogs, Hartogensis says. Eating bags of food where they don’t belong. canine digestive fries foods can cause pancreatic Symptoms include depression, diarrhea, systems are greatly inflammation, which in turn can cause high fever, excessive thirst, kidney damage, less developed than human ones and rather damage to your pet’s other intestines. This seizures and vomiting. Make sure Mr. ill-equipped to process certain foods. can be life-threatening. If you’re worried Woofers has a full water bowl all the time, that Fluffy got into the curly fries, take her The reason our playful canines eat the same but especially if he’s snuck a salty snack. food every day is that it contains the to the vet ASAP—pancreatitis can cause necessary nutrients they need, others foods extreme vomiting and requires immediate 7. Xylitol can actually cause health problems that emergency care. T hi s i s a lo w-calorie sugar substitute frequently added to a number of exceed just an upset stomach. Yes, there is 4. Grapes processed foods and other products like human food that will not poison your dog. This is a puzzler for vets. They’re not sure gum, breath mints and toothpaste. Even just However, every dog is different and just what it is in grapes that makes dogs so sick, a small amount of xylitol can cause a huge because one dog may love steak and never but there is a strong correlation between spike in a dog’s insulin levels, which could experiences a problem, doesn’t mean that eating grapes and kidney failure. This also cause dangerously low blood sugar levels all dos will. Small dogs tend to have a more includes raisins and dried currants, which later on. sensitive stomach than larger dogs. are even more dangerous because the dried
After researching complaints and incidents fruit is more concentrated. Also, the smaller “Even just a few pieces of gum can be through the FDA’s Safety Reporting Portal, the dog, the fewer grapes it takes to make pretty toxic,” says Hartogensis. Little dogs the Office of Surveillance and Compliance one very sick. are especially vulnerable to xylitol poisoning, so make sure to keep gum and at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary If your dog eats a grape, even one, watch mints well out of reach. Symptoms of Medicine has compiled a list of the for signs of kidney failure. Symptoms xylitol poisoning initially include vomiting, top people foods and ingredients that you include: diarrhea and vomiting, and can later progress to fainting, seizures, should never feed your dog. dehydration, lethargy, low urine output and staggering and weakness. 1. Alliums weakness, according to the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. This includes garlic and onions (and any foods seasoned with them). They have been 5. Macadamia nuts associated with a disorder called hemolytic Dogs seem to be the only animal around anemia, says Martine Hartogensis, the that simply can’t tolerate macadamia nuts, deputy director of the Center for Veterinary and again, vets just aren’t sure why. While Medicine, which can damage a dog’s red it’s unlikely you’ll leave these expensive blood cells. nuts lying around (and a dog would have
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