National Bird Day

from the Avian Welfare Coalition: Each year, millions of birds are captured from the wild or produced in captivity for commercial profit or human amusement, only to languish in conditions that fail to meet the instinctive behavioral and physical needs Read More …

School Safety Week / Safe Schools Week

Canada’s School Safety Week, National School Bus Safety Week and the United States’ Safe Schools Week are all observed in October during the same week.   Although school safety should be observed throughout the school year, this is the perfect time Read More …

Fire Prevention Month / Week (U.S. / Canada)

This year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign theme, “Learn the Sounds of Fire Safety!”, works to educate everyone about the different sounds the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms make. Knowing what to do when an alarm sounds will keep you and Read More …

World Book and Copyright Day

April 23rd is a symbolic date for world literature. Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died on April 23rd in 1616.  Many other prominent authors, such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Read More …

Earth Day

Taken from Earthday.org website: In the decades leading up to the first Earth Day, Americans were consuming vast amounts of leaded gas through massive and inefficient automobiles. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of the consequences from Read More …