Burundi Edition
World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for Burundi.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
Canadian Halloween is American Halloween with colder weather. The costumes are the same but the coats go over them. The little ninja who spent an hour on his mask is now a ninja in a parka and nobody can tell who he is. The pillowcase full of candy will last until November 10. The candy tax levied by parents is real and it is not optional.
The humble sweet potato that grows in every hill, every field, every small garden across Burundi. Roasted under coals, boiled for breakfast, mashed for dinner, the sweet potato is always there when you need it. Every Burundian child has come home from school to find sweet potatoes waiting and every one of them remembers the taste as comfort itself, the flavor of a mother who always had something ready.
You find that seabirds including frigatebirds and boobies are the most distinctive wildlife native to Wallis and Futuna's islands. You notice that residents commonly keep pigs, chickens, and dogs as working and companion animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
