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August is how most Americans mark summer’s end. I hope you’ve had lots of ice cream this summer.
August is a good month for ice cream. 🍦 August 2025 is also a good month for seniors, family members, and their caregivers to have a conversation at least.
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Smokers take note, going to the doctor to get lung cancer screening done is a chance to catch possible cancers as early as possible.
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Call it craft beer or kraft bier, today’s one excuse to knock down a tall boy for people over the age of 21+ and who won’t operate a motor vehicle until they sober up. Cheers to responsible beer drinking!
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National Minority Donor Awareness Day (NMDAD) kicks off the National Minority Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM) and talks about organ, eye, and tissue donors within minority communities between dad’gum acronyms.
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Did you know? One common watermelon from the grocery store weighs about 20 pounds. Natural or seedless, what’s your pick?
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Each year on the anniversary of its founding, we salute the U.S. Coast Guard with due respect to the service and sacrifice of its members active and retired.
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Beacons at our shorts have for centuries stood as a true emblem of safe arrival so our Congress started celebrating historic and modern lighthouses in 1989.
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Purple Heart medals honor heroic U.S. military service people who have been wounded or killed while serving, and is America’s oldest military award.
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Curl up with an engaging book and practice those book reading skills you picked up from K-12 because reading reaps rewards for readers of all ages.
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If you ask an indigenous person nicely, they’ll let you know… “We’ve been here a long time.”
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Tooting from their long noses and scuffing the ground with their feet, today we cherish the elephant among our favorites and think about threats facing elephant populations.
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Stressed people live lower quality lives than people who effectively relieve stress through relaxation good for your health.
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“Knock, knock!” “Who’s There?” “What’s the matter… Cat got your tongue?”
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With 20,000 different species of bees buzzing around building hives and milking honey, today we remember stinger bees aren’t so bad after all.
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Non-profits, NGOs, charities, and all the people making it happen in the Not-for-Profit Category, today, we bring high-fives to people running nonprofits to keep communities connected in meaningful ways. Go engage donors!
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When humanitarian workers mobilize to stabilize an environmental and/or political disaster, we uphold society’s resilience in the face of emergency.
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From airport runways to the sky in 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt established a day to celebrate aviation's history on the birthday of Orville Wright.
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Big up to senior citizens for their golden wisdom, ability, and longevity. So cool!
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The American slave trade started in 1619 and ended somewhere around the 1860s, and remains a tragic part of U.S. History to be remembered.
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If there’s a holiday to feel bad if you buy new clothes, now’s the time to re-fashion. One of my favorite things about the Goodwill I visit is it’s near to where I live! The tolerant and environmentally conscious among us should know, there’s a growing industry and market demand for environmentally-friendly clothing going on from now on, so these days you have the best-ever consumer choice to buy new or used clothing while keeping Mother Nature in mind. We can buy and sell clothes previously worn by other people.
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Enjoy the classic American dessert - a piece of Pennsylvania Americana - with ice cream, a banana split lengthwise, plus chocolate syrup and some diced nuts if you’re not allergic, whipped cream, and that cherry on top. The banana split was invented by David “Ice-Cream Joe” Gruble in 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Human’s best friend deserves a day to get all the attention and a few more treats than usual.
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It was 1920 when the 19th Amendment established American women's right to vote at a national level, so that’s just over 100 years of women’s suffrage.
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Seriously, something could go wrong on a mass of humanity.
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Losing someone you love ain’t easy, and people cope with loss in different ways, so why not acknowledge grief and show some support when your friend is grieving, OK?
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Drug-related death is a topic that carries stigma, but in your community, it’d be better to intervene once known than to avoid the topic until something worse happens.
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