Hoover to honor veterans throughout November

The city of Hoover will hold numerous activities in November to celebrate veterans.

The kickoff event will be Nov. 6 in the newly renovated theater level at the Hoover Public Library and will include a program at 2 p.m., musical presentation by the Alabama Youth Symphony at 2:45 p.m., a reception at 3:15 p.m. and a flag-folding ceremony at the flagpole in front of the library at 4 p.m.

Additional flag-folding ceremonies will be each day from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10 at 4:45 p.m.

On Nov. 7 at 9:30 a.m., Aldridge Gardens is officially opening and dedicating its Veterans Memorial Arbor and Pentagon Plaza at the dam in the gardens. The Pentagon Plaza will include busts of three service members from Hoover who were killed in action, said Aldridge Gardens CEO Tynette Lynch.

Also on Nov. 7, Jerry Desmond, executive director of the Birmingham History Center, will present a presidential trivia program at 10 a.m. in the library’s theater level meeting rooms. The library will show a documentary about American military life and families called “The Homefront” in the Library Theatre at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

On Nov. 10, the Hoover Senior Center has scheduled a Veterans Celebration at 1 p.m.

Then on Nov. 16 at 10 a.m. in the theater conference room at the Hoover Public Library, people will be able to Skype with Siobhan Fallon, author of “You Know When the Men Are Gone,” a fictional story about the lives of military families at the Army’s Fort Hood in Texas.

The library’s November Monday at the Movies presentation is “The Monuments Men” on Nov. 28 at 2 and 6:30 p.m.

The library also will have several displays to celebrate veterans, including a patriotic book display, Wall of Honor, flag and uniform displays and a Prisoner of War/Missing In Action display. Children also can visit the Kids’ Zone to make a craft for a veteran, enter a poster contest and receive a flag during storytime programs.