| June 2006
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Spring Concert
- Overlook Elementary School 1:15-3:15 p.m. at Overlook
& 7:30 p.m. at Abington Senior High School
Abington Education Foundation Gala Details
at “Special Events”
Shavuot or Festival of Weeks begins at sunset |
| 2 |
Ascension Day in
the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| 2-3 |
Shavuot (Festival of Weeks)
This Jewish festival begins at sundown on June 1 and is known
as Yom Habikkurim, or "the Day of the First Fruits"
because it marks the time when the farmers of Israel would bring
their first harvest to Jerusalem as a token of thanksgiving.
It also commemorates the giving of the law (Ten Commandments)
to Moses and the Israelites at Mt. Sinai. Shavuot means weeks,
and this festival is held exactly seven weeks after Passover |
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Pentecost In the
Christian church, Pentecost occurs on the Sabbath day after
a week’s worth of weeks (7 x 7) or the fiftieth day after
Easter and officially ends the Easter season. According to the
Bible’s book of Acts 2, people had gathered to celebrate
Pentecost, and the good news of Jesus was being preached. Because
the Holy Spirit descended on the crowd, many people were able
to hear the words in their own language and were converted to
follow Christ. The Christian observance of Pentecost is considered
the birthday of the Church |
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Spring Concert – Highland
Elementary School, 7:30 p.m. Abington Senior High School
Auditorium |
| 6 |
Spring Concert - Willow Hill
Elementary School, 1:15 p.m. at the school and 7:30
p.m. at Abington Senior High School Auditorium |
| 7 |
Commencement for
Abington Senior High School Held at Swarzman Stadium, 7:00
p.m.
McKinley Elementary School PTO meeting,
9:00 a.m. |
| 9 |
Spring Concert McKinley Elementary
School 9:15 a.m. at the school |
| 9-11 |
June Fete Village Fair &
Horse and Pony Show Details at “Special Events” |
| 11 |
Race Unity Day This
is a Bahai-sponsored observance promoting racial harmony and
understanding and the essential unity of humanity. For more
information, contact the United Nations Office at 212-803-2500
or visit www.us.bahai.org |
| 12 |
Spring Concert McKinley
Elementary School 7:30 p.m. at Abington Senior High
School Auditorium
Pentecost celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox
church |
| 13 |
Abington Board of School Directors
meeting, 7:30 p.m. Abington School District Administration
Building, 970 Highland Avenue |
| 14 |
Flag Day This
day for patriotic observance commemorates June 14, 1777 when
the Stars and Stripes was adopted by the Continental Congress.
Inspired by three decades of state and local celebrations
in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Flag Day was officially
established by a proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson
on May 30th, 1916. After this proclamation, it was celebrated
in communities for years until it became a national day of
observance ; on August 3rd, 1949, President Truman signed
an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National
Flag Day. |
| 16 |
Day of the African Child
Celebrated since 1991, this day commemorates the achievement
and future challenges of Africa and celebrates the heritage
of African-American children. It recalls a two-week period in
1976 when in Soweto South Africa, thousands of black school
children took to the streets to protest the inferior quality
of their education and demand their right to be taught in their
own language. Hundreds of children were shot down. Information:
1-800-FOR-KIDS. |
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Father’s
Day A day to honor one’s father and all men who
act as father figures, it is observed on the third Sunday in
June according to a presidential proclamation signed by Lyndon
B. Johnson in 1966. Father’s Day was first proposed in
1901 by a Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington who wanted to honor
her father who had been left a widower and had raised six children.
The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane
Washington. Around that time in cities and towns across American
other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day."
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national
Father's Day. |
| 19 |
Juneteenth
commemorates the emancipation of African Americans
in Texas when in 1865 General Gordon Grander landed on Galveston
Island and proclaimed the sovereignty of the United States over
Texas and the freedom of all who had been slaves—two and
a half years afer slavery had endedin other parts of the South.
Made a Texas state holiday in 1979k it is now celebrated in
many parts of the country. |
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First Day of Summer |
| 27 |
Abington Board of School Directors
meeting, 7:30 p.m. Abington School District Administration
Building, 970 Highland Avenue |
