Holidays of Cascadia

Employers are encouraged and sometimes forced to release workers on some of these days. 

• January 1st, New Years Day: New Years Day is a day to celebrate the first day of the new year, although, most celebrate the day prior. 
   
• January 25th, Dominion Day: Mountaineer Day is the day to celebrate Cascadia's independence
   
• February 14th, Valentines Day: Named after St. Valentine, Valentines Day is most known for its common theme of love and romance. 
   
• First Day of Lent (Ash Wednesday): Ash Wednesday starts the 40 day season of repentance, reflection, fasting, and celebration. The 40 day season is marked by the 40 days and 40 nights that Christ endured temptation in the Judaean Desert. 
   
• March 8th, Women's Day: A day to acknowledge the achievement, sacrifice, and challenges that women have made, given, and faced over the years. 
  
  Holy Week
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• Last Day of Lent, Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday is the last day of the 40 day fasting period known as Lent. This day is meant to be a day to celebrate the first day of Holy Week and the Sunday before Easter, and most importantly, Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. 
   
• Fourth Day of Holy Week, Passover Thursday: This day was the day before Jesus was crucified, and the day of the Last Supper. 
   
• Fifth Day of Holy Week, Good Friday: This was the day Jesus was crucified, on this day Christians are not to eat meat of any sort. By Appalachian law, restaurants are not to serve any sort of seafood or terrestrial meats such as beef or chicken. 
   
• Sixth Day of Holy Week, Holy Saturday: This is the day between Jesus' death on the Cross and his resurrection on the third day. 
   
• Seventh Day of Holy Week, Easter: The day Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven. 
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• May 8th, Mothers Day: A day to celebrate all mothers alike.
   
• May 14th, Czar Day: This day is the birthday of both Czar Gabriel Lins and Czar Haakon Lins, the first two rulers of Cascadia. 
   
• May 18th, Cascadia Day: This day is to celebrate Cascadian culture.
   
• June 5th, Boniface Day: On June 5th, 754 A.D, St. Boniface was killed by pagan Germanics in revenge for chopping down the Odin Tree. On this day, people go out and chop down fraser and balsam firs to then store until the First Day of Advent, where the tree they cut down is mounted up to become their Christmas tree.
   
• June 19th, Fathers Day: A day to celebrate all fathers alike.
   
• August 8th, Repeal Day: This day is to celebrate the repeal of the Tojotomi Decree, a law which banned Christianity in La Punta after it had overthrown its previous theocracy. 
   
• October 1st, Music Day: Shared with the Puntans, music day is a day to celebrate musical expression and the musical culture that Cascadia so very revolves around. 
   
• October 31st, All Hallows Eve: Commonly known as Halloween, is traditionally a day to honor all saints that have lived throughout history, but, this day as we know it is most known for the tradition of Trick or Treating, where children as young as 3 go around their neighborhood and knock on doors saying "Trick or Treat!" to receive candy. 
   
• November 19th, Men's Day: A day to acknowledge the achievement, sacrifice, and challenges that men have made, given, and faced over the years. 
   
• November 25th, Thanksgiving: Exclusive to North America, Thanksgiving was when the Pilgrims and Natives joined together for a giant feast, marking the beginning of peaceful relations between Europeans and Native North Americans. 
   
• December 15th, Zamenhof Day: Also shared with the Puntans, Esperanto, a language commonly spoken in Cascadia and La Punta, was created by L. L. Zamenhof, who was born on this day.
   
• December 24th, Christmas Eve: Christmas Eve is the day people put gifts for others under the Christmas tree for Christmas Day morning. 
   
• December 25th, Christmas Day: This day is the day used as a day for celebrating the birth of Christ, although it is unlikely that he was born on this day. Traditions include opening gifts left under the Christmas tree. 
   
• December 31st, New Years Eve: This day celebrates the end of the calendar year and the freshness of the new year to come. Many people set goals for the new year that they later abandon on January 2nd.