October Is…

“Autism Awareness Month”: Call the Autism Society of Canada 1-866-478-8440 or see www.autismsocietycanada.ca.

“Brain Tumour Awareness Month”: The Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada’s website is www.braintumour.ca.

“Canadian Library Month”: For info, contact the Canadian Library Association at 613-232-9625 or see www.cla.ca.

“Car Safety Month”: See the Automotive Industries Association of Canada website at www.aiacanada.com.

“Child Abuse Awareness Month”: see www.redcross.ca.

“Breast Cancer Awareness Month”: For info, call the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation 1-800-387-9810 or see www.cbcf.org.

“Global Diversity Awareness Month”: Celebrating, promoting and appreciating the global diversity of our society. Call Carole Copeland Thomas 508-947-5755, email TellCarole@mac.com.

“Women’s History Month”: see www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/whm-mhf/index.eng.html.

Oct 1 “World Vegetarian Day”: Celebration of vegetarianism’s benefits to humans, animals and our planet. Call 518-568-7970 or email navs@telenet.net.  See www.worldvegetarianday.org.

Oct 2 “World Smile Day”: A day dedicated to good works and good cheer. Do an act of kindness and help one person smile. See www.worldsmileday.com.

Oct 4 “Ten-Four Day”: The fourth day of the tenth month is a day of recognition for radio operators, whose code words “Ten Four” signal an affirmative reply. Involve your local Ham radio club on your show, and see how far away they can transmit. If you get the right people, they are very interesting.

Oct 4-10 “United Nations World Space Week”: To celebrate the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition.  See www.worldspaceweek.org.

Oct 5 “World Habitat Day”: see www.un.org.

Oct 5 “International World Teachers’ Day”: A day to honour teachers and their contributions to learning.  For info go to www.un.org.

Oct 9-17 “Oktoberfest” The second largest Oktoberfest in the world is held in Kitchener, Ontario. More than 700,000 people attend the 70 events over the week. Call the organizers for more info 519-570-4267, email info@oktoberfest.ca, or visit www.oktoberfest.ca.

Oct 10 “Universal Music Day:” This day advocates, celebrates and encourages profound gratitude for music, musicians and music teachers. Call Susan Patricia Golden, Family Music Network 727-804-4908, email info@UniversalMusicDay.org. See www.UniversalMusicDay.org.

Oct 12 “International Moment of Frustration Scream Day”: To share any or all of our frustrations, all citizens of the world will go outdoors at twelve hundred hours Greenwich time and scream for 30 seconds.  We will all feel better or Earth will go off its orbit.  Call 717-279-0184, email info@wellcat.com, or see www.wellcat.com.

Oct 12 “Thanksgiving Day”: Observed  in Canada on the second Monday in October each year.

Oct 12-18 “Citizenship Week”: Canada’s Citizenship Week is intended to encourage all Canadians to reflect on the value of citizenship and what it means to be Canadian. See www.cic.gc.ca/english/celebrate/citweek.asp.

Oct 13-19 “Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door Week”: To focus attention on improving public relationships in order to create success for companies, products and individuals. Call Barbara Gaughen 805-968-8567, email bgaughenmu@aol.com, web: www.robertmuller.org.

Oct 14 “Be Bald and Be Free Day”: For those who are bald and who either do wear or do not wear a wig or toupe, this is the day to go “shiny” and be proud.  Call 717-279-0184 or see www.wellcat.com.

Oct 15 “Grouch Day”: All grouches deserve a day to be recognized. Created for and inspired by Alan Miller, a retired teacher.

Oct 16 “Dictionary Day”: The birthday of Noah Webster, American teacher and lexicographer, is occasion to encourage every person to acquire at least one dictionary – and to use it regularly.

Oct 16 “National Boss Day”: For all employees to honour their bosses.

Oct 16 “World Food Day”: To increase awareness, understanding and informed action on hunger. For info call 202-653-2404 or see www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/en.

Oct 17 “Mulligan Day”: A day for giving yourself another chance or a do-over.

Oct 17-23 “National School Safety Week”: see www.https://canadiansafetycouncil.org.

Oct 17-25 “National Chemistry Week”: To celebrate the contributions of chemistry to modern life and to help the public understand that chemistry affects every part of our lives. Call the American Chemical Society 1-800-227-5558, ext 6097, email ncw@acs.org. see www.chemistry.org/ncw.

Oct 18 “Persons Day”: To commemorate the anniversary of the 1929 ruling that declared women to be persons in Canada.

Oct 19 “Sweetest Day”: Around 1922 a candy company employee named Herbert Birch Kingston decided that it would be a wonderful thing to distribute candy to the sick, shut-ins, and orphans of Cleveland. Thus Sweetest Day was born. Do something nice for someone today that will make them say, “Oh, that’s so sweet!”

Oct 19-25 “Waste Reduction Week”: Canadian campaign to reduce waste. See www.wrwcanada.com.

Oct 22 “International Stuttering Awareness Day”: For info call National Stuttering Assn. 1-800-992-9392. see www.westutter.org.

Oct 22 “Yom Kippur”: This is the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith and their most  holy day of the year.

Oct 24 “Make A Difference Day”: A national day of community service. For information call 800-416-3824 or visit www.makeadifferenceday.com.

Oct 25-31 “International Magic Week”: A week to celebrate the world of magic and the magicians who create it. Call Sir Nemo Turner 514-849-0888, email magician@total.net.

Oct 25 “Mother-in-law Day”: Traditionally the 4th Sunday in October is the occasion to honour mothers-in-law for their contribution to the success of families and for their good humour in enduring bad jokes.

Oct 30 “Devil’s Night”: A night of mischief and harmless pranks on the evening before Halloween carried out mainly by children.

Oct 31 “Halloween”: A druid autumn festival dating from the 6th century, has long been associated with thoughts of the dead, spirits, witches, ghosts and devils.

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