New Year

Plenty of fun activities are planned in downtown Seymour like the World's Largest Hamburger Parade, the Bun Run, the Kids' Run, music, games for kids, a Burger Eating Contest and a Giant Ketchup Slide. This year in the parade, Pulaski’s Red Raider Marching Band will join in and march, too. A car show, railroad depot and community museum are also open to see during the festival. In a separate section of the festival at Rock Ledge School and Park, there is a…

Across the world, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Purim this year from the eve of March 11 through March 12 with much fanfare and excitement. Families will go from door to door sporting costumes while delivering candy and other foods, and sit down to a lavish meal with friends and relatives later in the day to celebrate the holiday. But far beyond the food and costumes, Purim has a much deeper purpose to it, a lesson applicable to each and every one of our lives. Purim, one of the most…

10 Decoration Ideas for Valentine Day. Valentine Day is celebrated on 14th February every year with great enthusiasm. There are various theories regarding the origination of Valentine Day celebration and one most supported belief during Middle Ages among the people of France & England was that on 14th February, bird-mating season started and people saw it as a day of romance and love. Today, valentine day is celebrated across the world with great enthusiasm as a day of celebrating love,…

The majority of people start their new year with a list of resolutions. “New Year, New Me” is often said each time a new year comes. The reason for that is because every new year is a new chapter in our lives, and everything in the past that we were looking forward to changing can be changed or improved in a new year and we can add set that as a goal to become one of our new year's resolution. Setting goals can be very important. One of the reasons setting goals is a must is for you to point out…

Throughout the years, different variations have evolved concerning the dumpling’s filling, wrapping, and presentation, and its name has changed from Chiao-êrh, meaning “beautiful and delicate ears,” to a more appropriate Chiao-tzu, meaning “meat-filled dumpling.” “However, Chiao-tzu was not established as a New Year festival food until the following Ming dynasty (1368-1643)” (Hu 130). Though Chiao-tzu was not a New Year staple until it appeared on the royal table (approximately 1200 years after…

It’s the time of the year in which a new year has begun, and new resolutions are made. It can be an exciting time where most leave behind the past year and focus on the new and fresh beginnings. We tend to fall back at times and forget the goals we have set for ourselves. My first and main goal is to be determined to get through this year without failing and falling back into old habits without making progress, second is to get fit, eat healthy and go to the gym at least five times a week, and…

Everyone has more room for improvement .”New Year New Me”, Right, everyone stays that, however, they don't make New Year's resolutions. We make New Year's resolutions because we want to be the best version of ourselves. We make resolutions so that we challenge ourselves, and be able to do the best of our ability in life. Making New Years Resolutions are important as you can see. I made New Year Resolutions for myself because I would like to push myself, not to be the best than anyone but better…

Have you ever made New Year resolutions and not achieved then because you get tired of doing them throughout the whole year? Well, I have too! This year, I have decided to make some resolutions that I know that if I put the effort, I can achieve them. Past years, I have made resolutions thinking it would be easy to achieve them but I was wrong, I just did them for the first weeks of the year, got tired of doing them, and not complete them during the year, but this year I chose three resolutions,…

the new School year supposed to start, unfortunately there are strikes, later they solved, But, East African Youth Program welcomed its student members back from their long summer break and wished them on good terms with this new school year. A lot of the youth are moving from middle to high school, and this means for them, new environment, new friends, and new scenarios that they’ve never been in before. However the case, many of the youth were really excited about starting a new school year.…

tells a story about the Chinese New Year. According to the Chinese legends, there was a big beast Nian who always harm people. To avoid the Nian beast attack, people thought that Nian was afraid of red color and loud noises, so they began setting off fireworks and used red color to scare the beast. Since then, this day was named as “guonian” meaning ‘to celebrate the Chinese New Year’ (China Highlights, 2015). The Chinese New Year is on January 28th, 2017, the year is the rooster. It is the…