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National McDonald's Day! While the very first McDonald's BBQ was born in San Bernadino, CA by Dick and Mac McDonald, the company recognizes this day in 1955 as their anniversary. The short story goes like this;

1940 - McDonald’s Is Founded
Dick and Mac McDonald open McDonald's Bar-B-Q restaurant on Fourteenth and E streets in San Bernardino, California. It is a typical drive-in featuring a large menu and car hop service.
1948- The McDonald brothers shut down their restaurant for three months for alterations. In December it reopens as a self-service drive-in restaurant. The menu is reduced to nine items: hamburger, cheeseburger, soft drinks, milk, coffee, potato chips and a slice of pie. The staple of the menu is the 15 cent hamburger. Picture #1
1949- French Fries replace potato chips and debut Triple Thick Milkshakes on the McDonald's menu.
1954 -Multimixer salesman Ray Kroc visits McDonald's in San Bernardino intending to sell the brothers more Multimixers. The 52 year old Kroc is fascinated by the operation. He learns from the brothers that they are looking for a nationwide franchising agent.
1955 - The First McDonald’s Opens
Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15. The attention getting red and white tiled building with the Golden Arches was designed by architect Stanley Meston in 1953. First day sales are $366.12. Picture #2

Want to know more?
Visit Corporate.McDonalds.com! 💙

Happy Siblings Day! 💙

Today is National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day on April 9th honors the courageous men and women who have endured brutal treatment at the hands of their captors. As a result, they’ve also suffered separation from family and displayed incredible endurance and faith during their captivity. The original intent of Former POW Recognition Day seems focused on the events of April 9, 1942, dubbed the Bataan Death March and on World War Two in general, but over the decades the emphasis on POWs overall has expanded greatly.
Since the Revolutionary War, over half a million service members have been captured. This number does not reflect those lost or never recovered. These heroes deserve not just a day of recognition but to be recognized and remembered everyday.

To every American Soldier and their families, past and present, thank you for your service.

To learn more visit https://www.museumofmilitaryhistory.com/event/national-former-prisoner-of-war-recognition-day/2022-04-09/.

We notice every single person and cannot express our gratitude for you enough.

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It is National Zoo Lover's Day & Time for a chance to WIN!

Last Night, we gave you a few zoo links for just this special day to go out and visit a zoo or animal park near you! Then we thought, what if folks can't get to a zoo today? Hmmm, 💡Let's do a contest! 🤩

CONTEST TIME! Let's do a coloring contest...for the kids! We posted pictures of animals on our post last night and have posted them here again today. Use one of these images as your contest entry! Submit your coloring page entry to us by liking, sharing this post and putting your child's work of art as a comment on this post! We will accept one entry per child, per household. We are doing this for the 10 and under crowd! Our winners will receive their very own masterpiece on a shirt or tumbler and a $10 amazon Gift Card for the winning artist too! Age groups will be 3 & under, 4-6 years, & 7-10 years! We are also going to offer a 25% off coupon for all of entry's we receive. That means everyone has the opportunity to still get their artwork on a shirt or tumbler at a discounted price!

Now the boring stuff... rules & fine print; Super simple! All artwork must be submitted by liking, sharing, & commenting the entry on this post by midnight EST on Friday, April 15, 2022. We will take all entries and ask for public voting to take place for each age group so, share, share, share! Voting will run from Saturday, 04/16/2022 through 12:00AM EST on Saturday, April 23, 2022. The winners will be notified via FB messenger and announced on our page on Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 6:30PM EST. All 25% coupons for entries will be sent via FB messenger after the winners are notified and announced.

Let the creativity and love of animals begin!! We cannot wait to see what you all come up with! 🦁🐯🐻
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Tomorrow is Zoo Lover's Day! A zoo near you may be offering discounted tickets to go, see, learn, & appreciate all of the amazing animals there are. Just a couple of Zoo options on the East Coast are below.

www.virginiazoo.com
https://nczoo.com
https://nationalzoo.si.edu
www.marylandzoo.org
www.riverbanks.org

We hope you go out and enjoy this weekend and have some fun at your local zoo with your friends and family! We would love for you to share your fun and participation in any of the National Days we have been or will continue to highlight!
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Remember our Kindness Campaign we posted about this afternoon? Well in case you missed it, we have joined the KINDNESS CAMPAIGN to help raise money and awareness through AutismSpeaks.org. 🥰💙

You can help us reach this goal by ordering our April Tumbler/T-shirt design! What design you ask? The super cool picture on this post is THE design we are offering! Adult Short sleeve shirts Size S-XL will be $25 and 20 oz. double walled insulated tumbler with lid and straw will be $30. $10 from each shirt and $15 from every tumbler sold will go directly to reaching our $500 goal. 😎💙

Not only this, but for any orders placed for a tumbler or shirt between now 6PM and midnight tonight, we are offering FREE shipping! Not only will get a super cute shirt or super useful tumbler & help us reach our goal for Autism, you will get your package sent for FREE! 😁

Below is the link if you would just prefer to help us raise money and even surpass our goal! We love all of our Sound Creations friends, family, & supporters! 💙💙 💙

Hey Friends!
Can you believe April is already here? This month is filled with lots of fun and learning opportunities! We will be sharing a lot of these with you all and some opportunities to get creative and maybe get a great deal or four!

Happy Pi Day!

Here's a little background on how this day came to be!

The value of pi was first calculated by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.
It was first baptized with the Greek letter as its name when William Oughtred called it as such in his works dating back to 1647, later embraced by the scientific community when Leonhard Euler used the symbol in 1737.
But how did Pi Day end up in a country-wide phenomenon? For that, we need to travel to the Exploratorium in 1988 San Francisco, where it was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw.
Shaw linked March 14 with the first digits of pi (3.14) in order to organize a special day to bond the Exploratorium staff together, where he offered fruit pies and tea to everyone starting at 1:59 pm, the following three digits of the value.
Pi Day became an annual Exploratorium tradition that still goes on today, and it didn’t take long for the idea to grow exponentially, hitting a peak on March 12, 2009, when the U.S Congress declared it a national holiday.

PS. 03/14 is also Albert Einstein's Birthday!

Some things have been going on around here! Tumblers!!! Starting at $25 for 20 oz straight custom tumbler with your name or inital. This one is headed to it’s new home tomorrow! We will be sharing more projects with you tomorrow as well! Stay tuned!