Hot Topics for October 2018

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 in Nebraska
• Homemade Halloween Costumes
• Influenza Information
• The Nobel Prize awards are presented in early October
• One Book One Nebraska:  This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways is the joint 2019 One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa Reads selection.  
• Pumpkins and More Varieties, including nutritional value, facts and history, growing tips.

Today is ...

• October 1  International Coffee Day
• October 4-6  NLA/NSLA Conference Lincoln
• October 6 - November 16  Fall Chrysanthemum Show  Omaha
• October 7  Race for the Cure  Omaha
• October 7  Chicago Marathon
• October 7-13  Teen Read Week  (celebrated the second full week in October)
• October 8 Columbus Day
• October 12  World Egg Day (always the second Friday in October)
• October 14-20  National Wildlife Refuge Week  (celebrated the second full week in October)
• October 16  Dictionary Day  The birthday of Noah Webster
• October 21-23  Hot Air Balloon Festival  Wakefield
• October 21-27 National Friends of Libraries Week
• October 22  Stuttering Awareness Day
• October 23  World Series begins
• October 26-30  Boo at the Zoo  Lincoln
• October 27-28 Nebraska Country Music Festival
• October 27  Celebration of Nebraska Books  Lincoln
• October 27  Make a Difference Day , National Day of Doing Good (fourth Saturday in October)
• 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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