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                                                                                                       ten
                                                                                                  Top  10  unique
                                                                                                  holiday traditions:

                                                                                                  10.  Chop down a
                                                                                                     cherry tree to
                                                                                                     commemorate
                                                                                                     Washington's
                                                                                                     birthday.
                                                                                                  9.  At midnight on the
                                                                                                     Fourth of July, run
                                                                                                     around your
                                                                                                     neighborhood
                                                                                                     screaming "The
                                                                                                     British are com-
                                                                                                     ing!"
                                                                                                  8. Revive the old
                                                                                                     Thanksgiving
                                                                                                     tradition of party-
                                                                                     -               to miss at least
                                                                                                     ing for five days
                                                                                                     straight.  Be sure

                                                                                                     two extra days of
                                                                                     Preparing to
                                                                                     purchase a
                                                                                                     school.
                                                                                     pumpkin to
                                                                                     paint for    7. To get away  from
                                                                                     Halloween are   your family, build a
                                                                                     juniors Kristin   Sukkah (traditional
                                                                                     Sprag ue,
                                                                                     Nicole King ,   hut for Jewish
                                                                                     and Samantha    holiday of Sukkot)
                                                                                     Roberts.  In
                                                                                     order to  live it   and, in  accordance
                                                                                     up  on  th is   with the old laws,
                                                                                     "spooky"
                                                                                     holiday, many   move in  for 30
                                                                                     students        days.
                                                                                     acquired festve
                                                                                     regalia to   6. Hold Easter egg
                                                                                     decorate their   runs for your pets.
                                                                                     dwellings and   5. Put sneezing
                                                                                     scare trick-or-
                                                                                                     powder  in  Santa's
                                                                                     treaters.  photo   cookies to reveal
                                                                                     -            4.  Be daring--eat
                                                                                     by Jennifer
                                                                                     Meyer
                                                                                                     who he really is.
                                                                                                     every  chocolate on
                                                                                     Reviving th e
                                                                                     age-old
                                                                                                     the advent  calen-
                                                                                     traditions of
                                                                                                     dar right away.
                                                                                     dressing up  for
                                                                                     Halloween    3. Go trick-or-treating
                                                                                     combined with
                                                                                     the benefit of   on  November 1 .        I
                                                                                     helping others,   2. Get a kiss on  May
                                                                                     juniors Sarah
                                                                                     Went and        Day by NOT
                                                                                     Amber Lulla     dashing off the
                                                                                     donned nature-  doorstep.
                                                                                     oriented
                                                                                     costumes while   1 . Refuse to move
                                    -       Elevated in  the middle of a circle of friends and  relatives,   volunteering in
                                     junior Michelle Lee laughs nervously.  The Jewish tradi tion  of  lifti ng  up  the   from a position of
                                     Bar/Bat Mitzvah or wedded couple whi le celebrators dance the  Hora (an   the  Fontenelle   comfort because it
                                     Israeli  dance) has gone on  since celebrations in  the old  country .  At Lee's   Forest Critter
                                     Bat Mitzvah party, she was tossed up  by  uncle Ira  Janowitz and  family   Walk.  Went, a   would violate
                                     friend David Kutler.  photo by Carl Tichauer    squirrel , is   Labor Day.
                                                                                     nibbling  on
                                                                                     Lulla's leaf
                                                                                     costume.
                                                                                     photo by
                                                                                     Michelle Lee   Holidays/Traditions
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