Please pass the word to students. The vendors will be located between the Student Services Building and the Student Union Building. If you have any questions, please contact me. The Transfer Center is located next to the Student Activities Office in the Student Union. British-Canadians eat pancakes on this day, Italians cook omelettes.
Poles make special doughnuts called paczki.
Shrove Tuesday is traditionally the day that Mardi Gras or Carnival is celebrated in many parts of the world. Ash Wednesday, March 8, is the beginning of Lent in Christian religions. Some observers attend special church services, where the shape of the cross is marked on their foreheads with ashes. In ancient times, people marked times of fasting, prayer, repentance, and remorse by placing ashes on their foreheads. In most churches, the ashes for the Ash Wednesday service come from burning the palm fronds from the previous Palm Sunday celebration.