Hot Topics for November 2018

November is ...

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

Other Interesting Tidbits ...

• Find a Flu Shot in Nebraska
• One Book One Nebraska:  This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways is the joint 2019 One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa Reads selection.  
• Thanksgiving History  from the History Channel
• Thanksgiving Recipes  from All.recipes
• Winter Tips  from the EPA

Today is ...

• October 6 - November 16  Fall Chrysanthemum Show  Omaha
• November 1  All Saints Day 
• November 1  National Family Literacy Day
• November 2-3  Breeders Cup
• November 4  Daylight Saving Time  (first Sunday in November)
• November 4  New York Marathon
• November 4  PBS was created in 1969
• November 4-10  International Games Week@ your library
• November 4-10  National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week (first full week in November)
• November 9  Berlin Wall Opened, 1989
• November 11  Veterans Day 
• November 10-18  National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week
• November 14  Country Music Awards
• November 14  National Book Awards announced
• November 11-17  National Young Readers Week (second week in November)
• November 15  America Recycles Day
• November 14-15 Gateway Farm Expo, Kearney
• November 17  Homemade Bread Day
• November 18  Tellabration  The annual storytelling celebration day
• November 19  International Men's Day
• November 18-24  National Family Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 18-24 National Game and Puzzle Week (observed during the week of Thanksgiving)
• November 20  Universal Children's Day
• November 22  Thanksgiving
• November 22  Thanksgiving By the Numbers
• November 23-January 1  Omaha’s Holiday Lights Festival
• November 23  Buy Nothing Day  The Friday after Thanksgiving in the US
• November 25  Andrew Carnegie Birth Anniversary, 1835

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