Hot Topics for October 2021

October is ...

• Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month
• LGBT History Month
• National Book Month
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• National Popcorn Poppin' Month
• National Reading Group Month
• National Rolling Skating Month

Other Interesting Tidbits ...

• Fall Seasonal Recipes
• Find a Flu Shot
• Homemade Halloween Costumes
• Influenza Information
• The Nobel Prize awards are presented in early October
• One Book One Nebraska 2021:  Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II (Bison Books, 2014) by James J. Kimble
• Pumpkins and More Varieties, including nutritional value, facts and history, growing tips.

Today is ...

• September 26 - October 2  Banned Books Week
• October 1 -15  Fall Chrysanthemum Show  Omaha
• October 1  International Coffee Day
• October 5 World Teacher's Day
• October 7-10 Nebraska Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Old West Days Valentine
• October 8  Race for the Cure  Omaha
• October 8  World Egg Day (always the second Friday in October)
• October 10  Chicago Marathon
• October 10-16  Teen Read Week  (celebrated the second full week in October)
• October 10-16  National Wildlife Refuge Week  (celebrated the second full week in October)
• October 11 Boston Marathon 
• October 12  Columbus Day
• October 13-14  NLA Omaha
• October 16  Dictionary Day  The birthday of Noah Webster
• October 17-23 National Friends of Libraries Week
• October 22  Stuttering Awareness Day
• October 23  Make a Difference Day , National Day of Doing Good (fourth Saturday in October)
• October 26  World Series begins
• October 26-30  Boo at the Zoo  Lincoln
• October 29  National Cat Day
• October 30  National Candy Corn Day
• October 30  Talk Like Jane Austen Day
• October 31 Halloween Facts for Features from the U.S. Census Bureau
• October 31 Halloween

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