October is a Popular and Hectic Month
By: Veronica Leighton
Time goes by so fast. It’s almost the end of the year, we are already in the middle of October, yet I feel like the year has just started.
Amazingly, we are finding out that this eighth month of the year has one of the busiest events, celebrations and happenings. What’s up? Everyone hurrying up to make it to the Octo month before the year’s end?
October’s most celebrated occasion in the Filipino American communities all around the U.S. is the Filipino American History Month (as passed by the U.S. Congress in 2009), time to celebrate our pride, culture and heritage plus our historic contributions to the Nation. Please read our editorial page on the same page four and Pinoy News on page 18.
Most popular, fun, and looked forward to (especially by kids for “tricks or treats”) is the Halloween.
Octoberfest is the next popular celeb, mostly for adults, another ethnic celebration with its origin from Munich, Bavaria, Germany that has touched many celebratory beer-drinking population in the country. Cheers! Prost! Mind you, there’s a few ways to say cheers or toast in German language. “Prost” is the most popular one in North America.
Other historical and headliner occasions are the Columbus Day (banks, some schools and government offices are closed); National Disability Employment Awareness Month, National Indigenous Peoples Day; Medical Assistance Recognition Week; National Fire Prevention Week; Infant Safe Sleep Awareness Month; Deer Mating Season, National Fossil Day, so on and so forth, and seems so endless.
Here’s to your October enjoyment, particularly on Octoberfest. Let’s toast our glasses, cheers to the hilt to the celebration! Enjoy, as usual, your favorite columnists’ articles who always bring to you the most interesting and exciting topics, news and feature stories. ##
Via Times October celebration with VT writer Pastor Nancy and Dr. Jonathan Abiera and Bobby and Christy Leighton at Perry’s Steakhouse in Schaumburg.
Perry’s flambe dessert sensation.
