Mark Your Calendar

 

 

National Recreation and Parks Month (July)

 

The official purpose of National Recreation and Parks Month is to showcase and invite community participation in quality leisure activities for all segments of the population. In other words, it is a time for you and your family to get outside and enjoy the sunshine by visiting our nation’s beautiful national parks!

 

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National Relaxation Day (Aug. 15)

 

To relax is to become less tense, rigid or firm. Sounds simple enough, but how difficult it seems to truly achieve a relaxed state, considering the fast pace of daily life and the many extensive obligations that people build up throughout the course of their lives. What is casually refereed to as stress are the physical and mental symptoms caused by persistent conflicts and specific problems, which are easily caused when one's energy is stifled from being over-worked, over-tired, and otherwise over-extended. Unwinding from time to time is vital to maintaining your health as stress diminishes productivity, motivation, and concentration, can result in chronic physical manifestations and be a negative factor in more serious illness. Instead of sapping your own energy by staying stressed out, take National Relaxation Day to heart and relax!

 

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National Emergency Preparedness Month  (September)

The best way to make your family and your home safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes.

• Get a kit. Build a disaster supplies kit that includes enough supplies for each family member for three days. There are six basics you should stock for your home in the case of an emergency: water, food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and special items for medical conditions. Remember to check your kit every six months.
• Make a plan. Make a family communications plan that includes an evacuation plan and coordinates with your school, work and community communication plans. Practice this plan with your entire family.
• Be informed. Know what may happen and how you can help by learning what disasters or emergencies may occur where you live, work and play and how they can affect you, your family and community, identifying how authorities will notify you and how you will get important information, learning what you can do to prepare by contacting your local chapter of the American Red Cross to ask about first aid, CPR and disaster training, and sharing what you have learned.

Source: www.redcross.org