Spring Forward…..

Don’t forget clocks go forward this weekend!

Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer.  Typically, regions with summer time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time. American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin mentioned a form of daylight time in 1784. He wrote an essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” to the editor of The Journal of Paris, suggesting, somewhat jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural morning light instead. However Benjamin Franklin did not propose daylight savings time. It was actually in fact George Hudson who proposed it in 1895. It was first used in Germany during World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. The US adopted daylight saving time in 1918. However Arizona and Hawaii do not participate in DST.

Here are a few tips from the Better Sleep Council to help adjust for DST

1. Gradually Transition into the Time Change
   To minimize the impact of the switch to daylight saving time, make gradual adjustments. Go to bed 15 minutes early, starting several days before the change.
2. Sleepy? Take a Quick Nap
   If you feel sleepy after the change to daylight saving time, take a short nap in the afternoon – no more than 20 minutes long.
3. Commit to 7-8 Hours of Sleep
   The average adult needs 7-8 hours of quality sleep each and every night. Work backward from your wake time and commit to getting at least 7 hours of sleep every night.
4. Keep Regular Sleep Hours
   Make sleep a priority by keeping consistent sleep (bedtime) and wake schedules – even on the weekends.

Here are some fun events happening this weekend:

• Sylvia will be performed by Center Stage Theater March 10-March 12 7pm at Wayne County Museum tickets $10.00
• Senior Dance march 10 Peggy Seegars senior center march 10^th, DJ Wildheard will provide music. Free
• High Tea march 11 from 4 to 6 gov. Charles B Aycock birthplace in Fremont $12
• Wade Sokolosky will talk about his new book no such army since the days of Julius Caesar at the Wayne County museum March 14 7pm more information 919-734-5023
• Eastern North Carolina’s Modern Day pirates program will be held March 27 at 7pm at Wayne community college for more information 9197397017
• Grow a Leprechaun program March 11 at 1 pm at Cliff of Neuse. Free. Register by calling 919-778-6234
• High Tea will take place March 11 from 4pm to 6pm at the Gov Charles B Aycock Birth Place in Fremont. Cost 12 registed 9192425581
• Children’s art class March 14 at 530pm kids 5 to 8. Cost $58 dollars.
• Basket weaving class will be held at Wayne County Public Library from 9am to noon. Free. For more information 919-735-1824

Remember to sign up for Cure for the Colors

https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/Goldsboro/CuresfortheColors

Don’t forget to sign up for Have a Heart For Kids Banquet on March 31st 2017.

http://wayne.communitiesinschools.org/