🌱 Arthritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run + Hoover Comprehensive Plan

Hello, neighbors. It's me, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Hoover Patch newsletter — here to explain all the most important things happening in our community today.

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Very warm with sun and clouds. High: 77 Low: 61.

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Here are the top three stories today in Hoover:

1. The Arthritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run is taking place this weekend. The 5k is intended to raise money for the Arthritis Foundation; participants, either as individuals or teams, are invited to raise additional money for the foundation by asking for donations in connection with the race. Racers can dress up in holiday costumes and either walk or run during the event, which is taking place this Saturday at Veterans Park on Valleydale Road in Hoover beginning at 7:30 a.m. More details about the race can be found here. (Hoover Sun)
2. Work has officially begun on Hoover's Parks and Public Spaces Comprehensive Plan. This public/private partnership will help the City of Hoover to catalog all of its recreational amenities for the purposes of marketing the City. A kickoff reception was held on Tuesday night. Photos from the event are available for viewing at the link. (City of Hoover)
3. The Hoover City Schools District (HCS) received therapeutic adaptive bikes for students with special needs. Alabama Senator Dan Roberts provided the nonprofit Birmingham AMBUCS a grant to help get adaptive bikes for schools in his district; of that money, $5,000 went to HCS. The district has bikes at Trace Crossings Elementary, Green Valley Elementary, Gwin Elementary, Brock’s Gap Intermediate, Deer Valley Elementary, Rocky Ridge Elementary, South Shades Crest Elementary, Berry Middle, Bumpus Middle, Spain Park High Schools, and one is on the way for Hoover High School. The link has a video about why the bikes are beneficial to students. (Hoover City Schools)

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Today in and around Hoover:

• Happy Hour At Front Porch (3:00 PM)
• Home Alone Trivia At Dave And Buster's, Birmingham (6:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• Attention house hunters! These houses have just come on the market in the Hoover area and are having open houses soon – check out the link. (Hoover Patch)
• The Hoover Chamber of Commerce will be celebrating the grand opening of Edward Jones Financial - Joe Prokop with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Dec. 16. The public is invited to attend the event from 10:00-11:00 a.m. (Hoover Chamber of Commerce)
• Tehreem Khan, a Hoover resident, has achieved several milestones over the past few years. Graduating from the University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of those, alongside becoming a citizen of the United States. Click the link to learn more about their story. (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

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That's it for today! See you all tomorrow morning for your next update.

— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander, now living in New York. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.