During the 2006 – 07 ECHL All-Star Game, the league officially welcomed back the Sea Wolves at the Board of Governors Meeting held during the festivities.

On Friday, August 3rd 2012, Porter was officially retired as a Pittsburgh Steeler during the evening festivities of the Steelers Training Camp at St. Vincent's College in Latrobe, PA.

They festivals officially last four days, from 14 to 17 August, the main festivities occurring on 15 and 16 August, " San Roque " Day.

Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase launched the festivities under the theme of Unity in Diversity on 24 May by officially opening the new Ratu Sukuna Memorial School in Nabua.

On the trip, the Queen officially opened the Silver Jubilee Walkway and the South Bank Jubilee Gardens, two of numerous places named after the festivities.

It was officially re-inaugurated on September 12, 2010, during Chile's bicentennial festivities.

But she does indicate festivities will start early, that a jazz combo will `` give with the Basin Street beat '' during the cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take over during the dancing.

A week after the holiday's ended ; some of the people of Corte Madera would stack their used trees high in the center of town in an open lot in front of the Presbyterian church and shops, most of the town showed up with candles in hand for the burning of the trees ; with the aid of the local fire department gas was spread at the base of the pyramid of trees to start the festivities.

The festivities start out at the crack of dawn and carry on well into the night.

The festivities start in February.

The festivities typically start at dusk, with approximately 10, 000 flares lit by 10: 00 PM.

Some of the festivities start some days before, depending on which day in the week Ólavsøka is.

There was a strong tradition of festivities to mark this start of a new municipal year.

She tours all over the Zulia State and returns to the Basilica to start all the religious festivities.

The festivities usually start one week prior to the annual Divali day holiday and finishes the night before Divali.

It is a job joyfully done by whole families together, marking the start of the holiday festivities.

McMurray won the UAW-GM Quality 500 in his second start in Marlin's car, and Marlin telephoned McMurray during the post-race festivities to congratulate him.

The festivities start ten days earlier than the actual day of Vela, with the hoisting of a flag ( Kodiyettam ), in the respective temples.

The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

In Ghent it opens with the OdeGand City festivities that takes place on the second Saturday of September.

Krasne visited the National 9 / 11 Memorial on the very same day as the Kings parade and placed his Stanley Cup Champions cap between their names and tweeted ; " As a kings fan in NYC, I couldn't let Mark Bavis or Ace Bailey miss the festivities.

This work he began while still in his native land, on occasions of private and public festivities, such as weddings and other assemblies.

At the conclusion of the festivities, a reflection on the past is encouraged, and Pratikraman is done for repentance of faults.

An unusual multi-sided tower, the Oriel, provides a counterpoint to the main doorway of the hall and was intended for private entertainment by Gaunt away from the main festivities on major occasions.

In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.

* 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1, 389 people.

In Durham, students of the University of Durham gather on Prebend's Bridge to see the sunrise and enjoy festivities, folk music, dancing, madrigal singing and a barbecue breakfast.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

The festivities include many traditional folk dances, such as the masquerade, the Moko jumbies on stilts, Cowboys and Indians, and Plait the Ribbon, a May pole dance.

* Manipuri New Year or CHeirouba is celebrated on 14 April in the Indian State of Manipur with much festivities and feasting.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

The ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban on festivities on Saturday nights.

While it is not required to attend the week-long festivities and seminars, it is thought by some that those in the running for the Gold Award may advance their cause by displaying professionalism and hard work at that time ; judges for the contest, however, refute this, as the judging is done blindly in advance of the week-long pre-awards event and most judges don't arrive on site until the last day of the workshop.

The Carnival week begins on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday with parades being held during the weekend and finishes on Ash Wednesday, with the main festivities occurring around Rosenmontag ( Rose Monday ).

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

The Islands of the Azores have their own take on the Carnival festivities, but like on the mainland, many local clubs and Carnival groups create colorful and creative costumes that take a jab at the political or cultural characters of the times.

The Carnival festivities end on Ash Wednesday, when locals sit down for the " Batatada " or potato feast, in which the main dish is salted cod with potatoes, eggs, mint, bread and wine.

The day of his translation, 13 October ( his first translation had also been on that date in 1163 ), is regarded as his feast day, and each October the Abbey holds a week of festivities and prayer in his honour.

Their proxy wedding in Paris on 22 June 1559 was celebrated with festivities, balls, masques, and five days of jousting.

Carnival Memphis, formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival, is an annual series of parties and festivities in June that salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries.

He had been taken ill suddenly in his rooms at St John's on the evening of Friday 3 June, having sent his servant home to enjoy the summer festivities.

The festivities occur on June 23 and June 24 and since 1978 are publicly financed and organized by a National Holiday Organizing Committee ( Comité organisateur de la fête nationale ).

The festivities began on June 11, 1966 with the Centennial Ball, held at the Gaylord Avenue Armory, during which Sandy Smith was chosen to be Miss Plymouth Centennial.

The official opening was planned for 29 June with great public festivities, however on 9 June part of the ground at the south west corner of the lock sank, leaving the concrete facing unsupported.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12th of June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

In his Fasti, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous ; not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the Saturnalia, Consualia, and feast of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.

In Portugal, Midsummer festivities are included in what is known today as Santos Populares ( Popular Saints celebrations ), now corresponding to different municipal holidays: St Anthony's Day in Lisbon and Vila Real ( June 13 ), St John's Day in Porto, Braga, Figueira da Foz, Vila do Conde, and Almada ( June 24 ), St Peter's day in Seixal, Sintra, Póvoa de Varzim, and Barcelos ( June 29 ).

To celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Lenk line, in June 2012, the MOB is arranging a week of festivities with a dinner, special fares and operation and display of rolling stock usually to be found on museum lines, particularly that at Blonay-Chamby.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12th of June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

The festivities traditionally begin after the 12 June, on the eve of St Anthony's day, and last until the 29th, which is Saint Peter's day.

The city is located 130 kilometers ( 70. 194 miles ) from Recife, and its international airport, known worldwide for its June festivities and is also called the Capital do Forró (" Capital of Forró ").

The San Juan and San Pedro festivities are also remarkable, celebrated during the last week of June ( between June 23 and June 29 ).

Colonial goose is now a recognised classic, with some restaurants featuring it as a main attraction at midwinter festivities ( 21 June in New Zealand ).

The Christian holy day is fixed at June 24, but, in some countries, festivities are celebrated the night before, on St John's Eve.

The Johnsmas Foy festivities on the Shetland Isles ( north of Scotland ), where the people are still proud of their Nordic roots also take place in the week building up to the 23 / 24 June.

Schools usually organize special activities for the day of the celebration, and the first week of June is a time of festivities organized in parks and entertainment centers for children.