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Our town mayor has decides that the town needs beautify. So here is a sample of what's being done. The pic is the side of a building on Main Street.

National Themes For September 6: National Coffee Ice Cream Day, National Read A Book Day, National Lazy Mom’s Day, and National Food Bank Day.

☕️🍦National Coffee Ice Cream Day! There are those that are not a fan of cold coffee. However, when it is whipped with cream and sugar, it takes on a taste of its own. Coffee ice cream has been around for many years. In 1869, coffee ice cream was used in a parfait and a recipe appeared in a 1919 cookbook for an Egg Coffee, consisting of cream, crushed ice and coffee syrup. According to Foodtimeline.org, coffee ice cream has been a standard flavor on the Howard Johnson’s restaurant menu since at least the 1960′s, along with vanilla, chocolate, banana, macaroon, and coconut.

📚National Read A Book Day! On August 9th, we all celebrated National Book Lovers Day. While these bookish days may seem similar, National Read a Book Day invites us ALL to grab a book we might enjoy and spend the day reading. Don’t keep it to yourself. Share the experience! Read aloud either to children or to grandparents. Read to your pets or to your stuffed animals and plants. Reading improves memory and concentration as well as reduces stress. Older adults who spend time reading show a slower cognitive decline and tend to participate in more mentally stimulating activities over their lifetime. Books are an inexpensive entertainment, education and time machine, too!

🛌National Lazy Mom’s Day! Moms around the country view this day in different ways. The majority view the day as a holiday from laundry, dishes, carpools and bathroom cleaning. Take a break. Delegate the chores. Place a moratorium on family feuds. That’s how most celebrate this National Day.

🎗National Food Bank Day! Hunger may be as close as your neighbor or your coworker in the next cubical. Bare cupboards and empty stomachs look just like yours and mine behind closed doors. Food banks across the country help some of the 42 million men, women and children who struggle with putting food on the table. The reasons range from illness to job loss and a general change in circumstances. Circumstances that can happen to anyone of us. For parents struggling to make ends meet, the ability to look their children in their eyes over a meal instead of into hungry eyes is a difference made by supporting food banks. Food banks fill the gap for those living on a meager budget. Many food banks offer educational opportunities that help people change their situation and begin anew. Often, those who have benefited from the programs return to volunteer and contribute to the very food bank that staved off hunger to do the same for others. St. Mary’s Food Bank founded National Food Bank Day to recognize the outstanding contributions of food banks around the country and to commemorate the establishment of St. Mary’s Food Bank by its founder John ven Hengel in 1967. John van Hengel came up with the idea of grocery rescue and food banking and the idea spread throughout the country making St. Mary’s Food Bank the very first in the world! They distribute 250,000 meals on a daily basis through the efforts of dedicated staff, partner agencies, and volunteers. Their mission is to alleviate hunger through the gathering and distribution of food while encouraging self-sufficiency, collaboration, advocacy, and education.

I would like just plain ice cream while reading my book. I'm not a mom but I do lazy real well. In my opinion all food banks in a county should be combined into one so some won't abuse it and those who really need it, get it. MD, you have a relative in the picture down by the white flowers.

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