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October 30th: National Speak Up For Service Day, National Publicist Day, and National Candy Corn Day.

Speak Up For Service Day was established to recognize the importance of telling others about the need for young people to be actively involved in community service. Too often, good deeds of service by young people go unnoticed by their communities. Speak Up For Service Day gives recognition to the unnoticed and serves as a reminder that people should tell others about the contributions of young people to their communities. Sponsored by the Lions of North Dakota, the Speak Up For Service public speaking contest has become an annual event held in conjunction with the North Dakota State Lions Convention. Other Lions Clubs and Districts throughout North America sponsor similar public speaking contests where young people share their insight on issues of the day and the contributions of Lions to making the world a better place. The Speak Up For Service Project’s history began in 2003, when the Fargo, ND Lions Club initiated a public speaking contest for area high school students in honor of Laura Christensen Espejo. Laura devoted her life to improving the health care services available to the less fortunate in the Fargo community and Peru, the country of her husband, Lucho. Lion Robert Littlefield coordinated the contest on the local level before launching it as a statewide initiative while serving as District Governor in 2010-2011. In 2010, the first annual Lions Speak Up For Service public speaking contest was held at the North Dakota State Lions Convention in Grand Forks. High school students who entered the competition spoke on topics related to young people and community service. Brent Johnson, a senior at Shanley High School, was the first state winner of the Speak Up For Service contest. Johnson and the other contestants received scholarships for their participation in the event. National Speak Up For Service Day was submitted by the Mandan Lions Club in 2014.

📰National Publicist Day! October 30th is the day that the New York Times printed verbatim the very first press release written by Ivy Lee, the “father of modern PR”. The Pennsylvania Railroad was a client of Ivy Lee, and on October 28th, 1906, 50 people lost their lives due to a three-car train jumping a trestle in New Jersey and plunging into a thoroughfare creek. In response to this, Ivy Lee created the first press release that afternoon. He not only convinced the railroad to distribute a public statement, but he also convinced them to provide a special train to get reporters to the scene of the accident. The New York Times was so impressed with this innovative approach to corporate communications that it printed the first press release—verbatim—on Oct. 30, 1906, as a “Statement from the Road.” (information obtained from SearchEngineWatch.com). National Publicist Day is a day for publicists to come from behind the scenes where they are always working and be appreciated publicly for all they do to improve brand communications with the public. National Publicist Day and its meaning was submitted and founded by Jordanna Stephen, owner of APARTMENT|SEVEN, a PR firm in New York.

🌽National Candy Corn Day! Candy Corn was created by George Renninger of Wunderle Candy Company in the late 1800s. He created this sweet treat to represent the bright colors of corn kernels. Originally, Candy Corn was yellow, orange and white, but it has become popular in other colors as well. This confection was originally made by hand using corn syrup, sugar, water, marshmallows, fondant and carnauba wax (a wax made from the leaves of a palm tree), but it is now produced using machines. The original ingredients are still used in the recipe.

Speak Up For Service Day was/is a wonderful idea for young people to speak on topics that interests them. Or have an option on current affairs. Step out of the shadows all you Publicist and be recognized. Thank you for all you do behind the scenes. I never did care for candy corn. To much other candy to choose from, chocolate. I'm still stuck in chocolate day😋.

I don't know why not, aren't oatmeal Cookies made out of oatmeal. And my hubby loves oatmeal Cookies as well. My mouth is watering over thinking about BBQ chicken and a lemonade.

Sending happy squishy hugs!🐶💕🍂💕🎃👻