With energy we can work together to achieve a common goal, and while doing it have a lot of fun!
Doing both, and being together, is absolutely awesome!
Today, it was pulling a plane - 20,000 lbs of plane.
Teams of five, dressed all in purple,
pulled this 1943 cargo jet 10 feet and were timed.
The best time was 9 seconds!
Some were dressed much wilder than others.
We - the Purple Power Pullers - just wore funny purple pilot hats
sprouting fluorescent pink mohawk hair-do decor!
Today is Purple Day.
Purple Day, started in 2008 by 8 year old Cassidy Megan, is to raise Epilepsy Awareness for all.
It was not an initiative by one organization but by a child who, because of her own struggles with epilepsy wanted to raise awareness of this condition around the globe.
Her idea and vision has met with astounding success.
Here in Victoria, participation by the Victoria Epilepsy & Parkinson's Society was via
a Plane Pulling contest,
Service dog demonstrations,
a children's plane pull,
hamburgers and hotdogs and more.
It was just plain fun.
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
- Aristotle
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