11-21 World Hello Day
November 21st, 2009
World Hello Day:
(excerpted from http://www.worldhelloday.org/)
November 21, 2009 is the 37th annual World Hello Day. Anyone can participate in World Hello Day simply by greeting ten people. This demonstrates the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.
World Hello Day was begun in response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the Fall of 1973. Since then, World Hello Day has been observed by people in 180 countries.
People around the world use the occasion of World Hello Day as an opportunity to express their concern for world peace. Beginning with a simple greeting on World Hello Day, their activities send a message to leaders, encouraging them to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts.
National Adoption Day:
(excerpted from http://www.nationaladoptionday.org/2009/index.asp)
This year marks the 10th anniversary of National Adoption Day, a national day of celebration of adoptive families and an opportunity for courts to open their doors and finalize the adoptions of children from foster care. Since 2000, more than 25,000 children have had their adoptions finalized on National Adoption Day. This year on November 21, families, adoption advocates, policymakers, judges and volunteers will come together and celebrate adoption in communities large and small all across the nation.
National Family Volunteer Day:
(excerpted from http://nationalserviceresources.org/feature-oct2008-family-vol-day)
HandsOn Network logo. A signature program of Hands On Network and presented by the Walt Disney Company, Family Volunteer Day, is designed to demonstrate the power of families who volunteer together to support the communities in which they live and work. Volunteering as a family provides quality time for busy families, strengthens communication, and promotes working together to impact local communities across the nation.
A prelude to National Family Week, Family Volunteer Day is celebrated on Saturday, November 22, 2008. This day of service is a powerful way for families who volunteer to support the communities in which they live.
What is family volunteering? Family volunteering can be as simple as drawing cards for children in the hospital or as complex as linking hundreds of families in a day of volunteer service. It can be done by the whole family, by one parent and a child or teen, by siblings, or extended family members.
A number of resources exist for families and volunteer organizations to use when developing and planning projects for this day of service — or any day.
http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/vfamily/volunteer/
National Survivors of Suicide Day:
(excerpted from http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=FEE7D778-CF08-CB44-DA1285B6BBCF366E)
On Saturday, November 21, 2009, over 230 simultaneous conferences for survivors of suicide loss will take place throughout the U.S. and internationally. This unique network of healing conferences helps survivors connect with others who have survived the tragedy of suicide loss, and express and understand the powerful emotions they experience.
Each conference site is organized locally, but they’re all connected in spirit as participants across the globe watch a special 90-minute AFSP broadcast together on that day. In the U.S., conference sites will show the broadcast together from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and international sites will show it from 1-2:30 p.m. local time. Many conference sites plan their own local programs around the broadcast, including panels and breakout groups, all aimed at helping survivors heal.
World Television Day:
(excerpted from http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/world-television-day)
The United Nations’ (UN) World Television Day is annually observed in many places around the world on November 21. The day recognizes that television plays a major role in presenting different issue that affect people.
The UN acknowledges that television can be used to educate many people about the world, its issues and real stories that happen on the planet. Television is one of the most influential forms of media for communication and information dissemination. It is used to broadcast freedom of expressions and to increase cultural diversity. The UN realized that television played a major role in presenting global issues affecting people and this needed to be addressed.
On December 17, 1996, UN General Assembly proclaimed November 21 as World Television Day to commemorate the date on which the first World Television Forum was held earlier that year. The UN invited all member states to observe the day by encouraging global exchanges of television programs focusing, among other things, on issues such as peace, security, economic and social development and cultural change enhancements.
North Carolina Statehood Day:
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina)
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. Most of North Carolina’s slave owners and large plantations were located in the eastern portion of the state. Although North Carolina’s plantation system was smaller and less cohesive than those of Virginia, Georgia or South Carolina, there were significant numbers of planters concentrated in the counties around the port cities of Wilmington and Edenton, as well as suburban planters around the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and Durham. Planters owning large estates wielded significant political and socio-economic power in antebellum North Carolina, often to the derision of the generally non-slave holding “yeoman” farmers of Western North Carolina. In mid-century, the state’s rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129–mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a “farmer’s railroad,” from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston-Salem).
Celebrity Birthdays:
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_Hawn)
Goldie Jean Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, film director and producer, whose career has spanned nearly four decades. Hawn is perhaps best known for her roles in Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Wildcats, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and The Banger Sisters. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1969 film Cactus Flower. She is also the mother of actor Oliver Hudson, and actress Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with her long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial)
Stanley Frank “Stan” Musial (born November 21, 1920), born Stanisław Franciszek Musiał, (pronounced /ˈmjuːziəl/), is a retired Polish-American professional baseball player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Nicknamed “Stan the Man”, Musial played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963. A 24-time All-Star selection, Musial accumulated 3,630 hits and 475 home runs during his career, was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player three times, and was a member of three World Series championship teams.
