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Fight children's cancer and enjoy a ride with your mates! Choose any day during the month to host a cycle tour anywhere in the country. To get started, register your event with the Great Cycle Challenge. Plan your ride and get ready to enjoy a day with your friends. It's as easy as 1-2-3, and all proceeds go to fight children's cancer and cancer research. The Great Cycle Challenge is a three-nation event: in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Each nation's fundraising and event registration page is accessible via the source URL. August in CA: https://greatcyclechallenge.ca September in US: https://greatcyclechallenge.com October in AU: https://greatcyclechallenge.com.au

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Great Cycle Challenge (US): September

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Oct

Halloween Safety Month: October

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Halloween Safety Month seeks to help parents and children celebrate the holiday and avoid a disaster. For tips and best practices, see the National Safety Council website at: http://www.nsc.org/learn/safety-knowledge/Pages/halloween-safety.aspx.

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Oct

Head Start Awareness Month: October

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Head Start Awareness Month honors the Head Start Centers that help disadvantaged children prepare for kindergarten, school, and life. For more than 50 years, over 30 million children have benefitted from Head Start programs. This event first ran in 1982.

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Oct

Health Literacy Month: October

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Health Literacy Month seeks to raise awareness about the importance of health education while informing the public about the basics of health care and illness prevention. Health Literacy Month is a worldwide event founded by Helen Osborne in 1999.

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Healthcare Foodservice Week, Ntl.: October 1-7

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National Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week celebrates the men and women who supply healthy meals in hospitals and other care facilities. It supports their profession and its importance.

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Oct

Healthcare Supply Chain Week, Ntl.: October 1-7

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National Healthcare Supply Chain Week honors healthcare supply chain professionals and their crucial contributions to healthcare. Annually in October.

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Oct

Healthy Lung Month: October

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National Healthy Lung Month by the American Lung Association seeks to educate the population about environmental hazards and health risks that affect lung health and our ability to breathe.

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Oct

Healthy Workplace Month (CA): October

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Canada's Healthy Workplace Month seeks to improve work/life balance by focusing on health, workplace safety, and mental health in the workplace and beyond.

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Oct

Hearing, Audiology Awareness Month, Ntl.: October

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National Audiology Awareness Month seeks to advance public awareness of audiology and its stimulating effects on hearing protection. Types of Hearing Loss: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) results from changes in the inner ear (cochlea) and the auditory nerve. Often, these changes cause permanent hearing loss that is not treatable with medicine or surgery. Some of the known causes of SNHL include the following: age, noise exposure, genetics, malformations of the inner ear, benign tumors, illnesses, medications known to be toxic to the ear, and injury/trauma. Hearing aids are a standard solution for hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss (CHL) results from outer and middle ear changes. With a CHL, the sound is not able to travel (be conducted) efficiently down the ear canal, through the eardrum, and along the ossicles (middle ear bones). Some of the more common causes of CHL include the following: fluid in the middle ear, ear infection in either the outer and middle ear space, allergies, a hole in the eardrum, ear wax (cerumen) blockage, benign tumor, a foreign object in the ear canal, and the absence or malformation of the outer and middle ear. Mixed hearing loss (MHL) results from the presence of both an SNHL and CHL at the same time. For example, a noise-induced SNHL may get a head cold that causes fluid in the middle ear.

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Oct

Hemophilia, Bleeding Disorders Month, Ntl. (AU): October

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One in a thousand people in the world has a bleeding disorder, and one in five thousand has hemophilia. Those numbers may sound small for some or massive for others, but this means that of the 8 billion people living on Earth, 8 million have a bleeding disorder, and most of them are not diagnosed and do not receive any treatment. Bleeding Disorders Month (formerly Hemophilia Awareness Week) in Australia raises awareness of what it means to have hemophilia and how to deal with it.

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Home Eye Safety Month: October

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Home Eye Safety Month by Prevent Blindness focuses on educating the public about preventing eye injuries at home. Prevent Blindness states that the average home is full of unnoticed dangers. Most accidents involving everyday household products cause 125,000 eye injuries each year. Ninety percent of these eye injuries are preventable through understanding, safety practices, and proper eye protection.

Prevent Blindness notes you can reduce the risks of eye injuries for yourself and other family members by using this simple checklist for different areas of your home:

INDOOR EYE SAFETY AT HOME

Provide lights and handrails to improve safety on stairs.
Install lights under cabinets.
Avoid Granite and other high gloss countertops in homes with people over 65.
Wear protective glasses when handling cleaning fluids, especially those with fumes like ammonia and bleach.

OUTDOOR EYE SAFETY AT HOME

Inspect and remove debris from lawns before mowing.
Keep paints, pesticides, fertilizers, and similar products properly stored in a secure area.
Keep your tools in good condition; damaged tools should be repaired or replaced.
Wear safety glasses or dust goggles to protect against flying particles and chemical goggles to guard against exposure to fertilizers and pesticides.

CHEMICAL EYE SAFETY AT HOME

Wear chemical safety goggles when using hazardous solvents and detergents.
Read and follow all manufacturer instructions and warning labels.

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Oct

Homemade Cookies Day: October 1

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Homemade Cookies Day is an unofficial event encouraging people to bake homemade cookies. Best way to celebrate? Start baking!

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Oct

Igbo-Ora World Twins Festival (NG): October 14-15

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Double trouble and double fun, the annual World Twins Festival in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, hosts over one thousand pairs of twins, many in matching outfits. Igbo-Ora has an unusually high birth rate for twins, and doctors are curious if diet or genetically passed-on hormone levels create this unique situation. Whatever the cause, Igbo-Ora is twice as fun, with international twins arriving to join the twins of Igbo-Ora each year. The timing of this event can vary wildly each year, occurring during the Spring, Summer, or Fall. The actual date is declared approximately six weeks before the event begins, and the festival is usually a week long. Contact the town organizers prior to making travel plans and verify the date. PLEASE NOTE: Treat all televised and venue-specific events (sporting, concerts, trade shows, etc.) as estimated. Several factors can cause an event to move dates at the last minute, including weather, strikes, natural disasters, political upheaval, conflicting programming, pandemics, and current events. Because of this, always verify the event with the promotor before committing resources. LEEP often estimates dates based on the previous year's schedules, as the final dates are only a few months, weeks, or days before the event. If the date is known to be estimated, you will see an (est) following the date in the title.

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Independence Day, (CY)(1960): October 1

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Independence Day in Cyprus marks the anniversary of October 1, 1960, the official day of independence from Britain. Independence Day is a national holiday.

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