A Newsletter You Can Use Come Along for the Ride!

A Newsletter You Can Use Come Along for the Ride!

History In the original Roman calendar, November was the 9th month of the year. It got its name from the Latin word "novem" which means nine. It became the eleventh month when the Romans added January & February to the start of the year. Throughout much of history, November has been thought of as a somber month because it signaled the coming of colder weather & people would spend the month storing up their harvest & preparing their food & homes to survive the winter. Symbols of November Birthstone: Topaz & Citrine Flower: Chrysanthemum Zodiac Signs: Scorpio & Sagittarius 11/3.. National Cliché Day 11/5.. Daylight Savings Time Ends 11/7.. Election Day 11/11.. Veterans Day 11/23.. Thanksgiving 11/24.. Black Friday 11/27.. Cyber Monday 11/28.. French Toast Day November Is Native American Heritage Month National Diabetes Awareness Month November Days & Dates Aviation History Month National Stamp Collecting Month National Peanut Butter Lover s Month It was at 11:00 AM on November 11, 1918 that a temporary peace, or armistice, was signed & the fighting during World War I came to an end. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson announced that November 11th would be called Armistice Day in the United States. In 1938, Armistice Day became a national federal holiday. It was a day dedicated to world peace & held in honor of the veterans of World War I. In 1954, Congress decided to change the day to Veteran's Day because they wanted to honor the veterans of all wars, including World War II & the Korean War. In 1968, the day was moved to the 4th Monday of November. However, it was changed back to November 11th in 1978 by President Gerald Ford. If you see a veteran or soldier on Veterans Day, be sure to thank them personally for their service to our country! AMERICA RECYCLES DAY - Nov 15th Recycling is something we can all do 365 days a year to save energy, conserve natural resources & create green jobs. Recycling is a multibillion dollar industry that employs millions of Americans & helps advance our clean energy economy. Our national recycling rate of 34 percent annually - - Saves the energy equivalent of nearly 229 million barrels of crude oil or nearly 20 days of all U.S. oil imports. - Avoids greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing more than 36 million cars from the road each year. HELP THE EARTH! RECYCLE TODAY!

What did the turkey say to the computer? Google, google, google. Why do pilgrims pants always fall down? Because they wear their belt buckles on their hats! What did the turkey say to the hunter on Thanksgiving Day? Quack! Quack! Why did the farmer have to separate the chicken and the turkey? Because he sensed fowl play. A man buys a parrot, only to have it constantly insult him. He tries everything to make the parrot stop, but nothing works. Frustrated, the man puts the parrot in the freezer. After a few minutes the insults stop, so he opens the freezer and takes the parrot out. The parrot is shivering. It stammers, S-s-sorry for being r-r-rude. Please f-f-forgive me. Then, after a moment, the parrot softly asks, W-w-what exactly d-d-did the turkey do? Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the idea in 1784. The idea was revived in 1907, when William Willett, an Englishman, proposed a similar system in the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. The Germans were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915 as a fuelsaving measure during World War I. The British switched one year later, and the United States followed in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established our time zones. This experiment lasted only until 1920, when the law was repealed due to opposition from dairy farmers (cows don t pay attention to clocks). During World War II, Daylight Saving Time was imposed once again (this time year-round) to save fuel. Since then, Daylight Saving Time has been used on and off, with different start and end dates. Currently, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November. SOURCE - The Old Farmer's Almanac

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward