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Gifted Education Month
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WHEREAS, Alabama’s gifted children and youth are one of Alabama’s greatest assets; and WHEREAS, gifted students can be found in all ethnic, socioeconomic and cultural groups, and pr…
Wreaths Across America Day
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WHEREAS, Wreaths Across America, a non-profit organization, began in 2006 as an extension of the Arlington National Cemetery Wreath Project, which was started in 1992 when wreaths donat…
World AIDS Day
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WHEREAS, HIV/AIDS continues to have a global impact with an estimated 34 million people, including 2.7 million children, living with HIV/AIDS, while over 1.8 million have died worldwide…
Small Business Saturday
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WHEREAS, the State of Alabama believes that small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the glue that holds communities together
American Indian Heritage Month
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WHEREAS, American Indians have inhabited North America for thousands of years, and have shared their knowledge of the land and its resources since their initial contact with the first E…
National Diabetes Awareness Month
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WHEREAS, approximately 26 million people in the United States have diabetes
National Epilepsy Awareness Month
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WHEREAS, epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures
National Rural Health Week
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WHEREAS, rural communities in Alabama and throughout the United States are wonderful places to live and work
Alabama Recycles Day
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WHEREAS, businesses, industries, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and individuals have joined together to focus the state’s attention on the importance of recycling an…
50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War
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WHEREAS, fifty years ago our nation ended military involvement in the Republic of South Vietnam, thus ending military involvement in what was then the longest war in our country’s…