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Happy New Year! We wish all the happiness and prosperity to come your way in 2023!

Edison Square wishes you all a Happy Thanksgiving and happy feasting!

If you love pasta, music and wine, stop scrolling! Basilico's Italiano is located right here at Edison Sqaure serving delicious food and providing a great atmosphere. Join them every Wednesday for live music and 1/2 priced bottles of wine! Check out their website for many more weekly specials and events. https://www.basilicoitaliano.com/

HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYONE!

LearningRx is offering Brain Camps! Click here for more:
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LearningRx will also give an assessment and consultation for $100 off the regular $199 price. Just mention you saw this link!

Brain Camps (All Locations) Brain Camp is a fun, engaging environment where kids do fun activities that work on core brain skills, including memory, attention, and logic. Kids Ages 8-14. Cost of Camp is $299. A minimum of 10 students is required for each camp. Enrollment closes a week before Brain Camp starts. Use the Sign...

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Edison Square 5K This is a run/walk event to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Charlotte. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive systems of about 30,000 children and young adults in the United States. The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is to find a cu…

Have a Safe Thanksgiving Holiday!

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It became an official Federal holiday in 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Also, there are reports that the original Thanksgiving proclamation was signed by George Washington. As a federal and public holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow) and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday, he said

"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."[2]

The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies.[2] A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."[3]

In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the "Father of Veterans Day."

U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954. It had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans.[4]

Congress amended the bill on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with "Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day since.[5][6]

The National Veterans Award was also created in 1954. Congressman Rees of Kansas recieved the first National Veterans Award in Birmingham, Alabama for his support offering legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday.

Although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of every year, starting in 1971 in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October. In 1978, it was moved back to its original celebration on November 11. While the legal holiday remains on November 11, if that date happens to be on a Saturday or Sunday, then organizations that formally observe the holiday will normally be closed on the adjacent Friday or Monday, respectively.

Have Safe and Happy Labor Day!

The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its origins stem from the desire of the Central Labor Union to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894. It was originally intended that the day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the work of the trade and labor organizations. After the parade, a festival was to be held to amuse local workers and their families. In later years, prominent men and women held speeches. This is less common now, but is sometimes seen in election years. One of the reasons for choosing to celebrate this on the first Monday in September was to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

Great Event at Edison Square this Saturday!
Congratulations on your Grand Opening, Country Olive Farmer's Market!!

Country Olive Country Olive is a farmers market serving the Concord/Huntersville areas with fresh produce and other food choices that promote healthy living.

Highland Creek Chiropractic & Acupuncture

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We provide complete patient care including: chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, physical therapy, and lifestyle and nutritional counseling.

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