Healthy Home Newsletter October 2013 - Volume XVII, Issue 10 | Page 2

The Big Move Cancer
Ride was a Big Success!

Our Niagara Clean and Healthy
Team raised about $18,000 in this
year?s Ride, coming in fourth overall
in fundraising. Thank you, once
again to all of our wonderful
supporters.

Our lives begin to end the day
we become silent about things
that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Halloween: Its Irish Origins
Halloween is popular in Ireland, where it is
said to have originated. In the Irish language it
is known as Oíche Shamhna or “Samhain
Night”. Pre-Christian Celts had an autumn
festival, Samhain, “End of Summer”, which was
a pastoral and agricultural “fire festival” or feast
when the dead revisited the mortal world and
large communal bonfires would hence be lit to
ward off evil spirits. It is alleged that the Irish
continued to practice their deep-rooted ancient
pagan rites well after the arrival of Christianity
in the mid sixth century.
Pope Gregory IV standardized the date of All Saints? Day, or All
Hallows? Day, on November 1 in the name of the entire Western Church in
835. As it now began at sunset, the holiday coincided exactly with Samhain.
Although there is no official documentation that Gregory had Samhain in
mind when selecting this date, it seems consistent with the common practice
of leaving pagan festivals and buildings intact while overlaying a Christian
meaning. While Celts might have been content to move All Saints? Day from
the previous date of April 20th, they were unwilling to give up their preexisting April festival of the dead and continued to celebrate Samhain. –
Wikipedia

-------------------No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

-------------------Attitude is a little thing that makes
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a big difference.
Winston Churchill

-------------------Most folks are as happy as they
make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

-------------------You are never too old to set another
goal or to dream a new dream.

The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by US President
Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. Consider the following facts about
this marvel.
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CS Lewis

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-------------------Happiness is not something
ready made. It comes from your
own actions.

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Dalai Lama

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Total overall height from the base of the pedestal foundation to the
tip of the torch is 93 meters.
The height of the statue itself, from heel to the top of her head, is
34 meters.
Lady Liberty's face is more than 2.5 meters tall.
There are 154 steps from the pedestal to the head of the Statue of
Liberty.
The tablet held in her left hand measures 7.3m tall by 4.1m wide,
inscribed with the date JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776).
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