Hot Topics for November 2021

November is ...

• American Diabetes Month
• American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
• COPD Awarness Month
• National Novel Writing Month
• National Picture Book Month
• National Pomegranate Month
• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

Other Interesting Tidbits ...

• Find a Vaccination Shot Near You
• One Book One Nebraska 2021:  Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II (Bison Books, 2014) by James J. Kimble
• Thanksgiving History  from the History Channel
• Thanksgiving Recipes  from All.recipes
• Winter Tips  from the EPA

Today is ...

• November 1  All Saints Day 
• November 1  National Family Literacy Day
• November 4  National Common Sense Day
• November 5-6  Breeders Cup
• November 7  Daylight Saving Time  (first Sunday in November
• November 7 New York Marathon
• November 7-13 International Games Week@ your library
• November 7-13  National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week (first full week in November)
• November 9  Berlin Wall Opened, 1989
• November 10  Country Music Awards
• November 11  Veterans Day 
• November 12-21 U.S. Olympic Curling Trials
• November 13-21  National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Wee
• November 14-20 National Young Readers Week (second week in November)
• November 15  America Recycles Day
• November 17  Homemade Bread Day
• November 17  National Book Awards announced
• November 17-18- Gateway Farm Expo, Kearney
• November 19  International Men's Day
• November 20  Universal Children's Day
• Novemter 20 - January 4  Omaha’s Holiday Lights Festival
• November 21  Tellabration  The annual storytelling celebration day
• November 21-27  National Family Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 21-27 National Game and Puzzle Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 25  Andrew Carnegie Birth Anniversary, 1835
• November 25  Thanksgiving
• November 26  Thanksgiving By the Numbers
• November 27  Buy Nothing Day  The Friday after Thanksgiving in the US
• November 28 - December 6  Hanukkah

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