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Why We Don't Share Our Dreams
Why are most of us very hesitant to share our dreams and goals? Is it because we fear everyone will see us as a failure when our lofty objectives are not achieved? The challenge is, without goals we automatically forfeit success, failing by default.
Last week at Osprey Lodge we started a "Next Big Idea" wall to share projects our team discussed, but simply not been able to get off the ground. We have come to the conclusion that allowing ideas to lay around in a folder is an automatic failure. Instead, we will share our ideas, believing it will excite and inspire others to help us make big things happen for the senior community. Look for new ideas on our website and in this newsletter as we publicly share ideas that will help our elders change the World.
The 1st of many "Big New Ideas" to come
An on site butterfly garden for student and community education and enjoyment.
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Tom L. Hofmeister
BOLD INNOVATIONS
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Things that make you go hmmm...
Halloween Fact
You May Not Know
There's a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween:
The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and "vandalize" the streets. The city ordinance calls for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for "use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1."
Halloween and the candy industry supposedly
Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more candy to meet the demand). They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on Daylight Savings they put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, according to NPR. (The candy industry disputes this account, according to The New York Times.)
Candy Corn was originally known as "chicken feed." Invented by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, Candy Corn was originally called "butter cream candies" and "chicken feed" since back then, corn was commonly used as food for livestock (they even had a rooster on the candy boxes). It had no association with Halloween or fall, and was sold seasonally from March to November. After World War II, advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat due to its colors and ties to the fall harvest.
Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year: The candy industry in America rakes in an average of $2 billion annually thanks to Halloween (that's 90 million pounds of chocolate). Americans spend an estimated $6 billion on Halloween annually, including candy, costumes, and decorations, according to History.com. (The most commercial holiday in the U.S. is obviously Christmas.)
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Osprey Lodge
1761 Nightingale Lane
Tavares, FL 32778
352-253-5100
Living Well Lodges, LLC
4130 United Avenue
Mount Dora, FL 32757
407-505-5552
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