SUMMER’S ON THE WAY Last year’s inaugural Midsummer Night Festival was so successful that the library is planning to tie this year’s celebration in with the annual summer reading program kickoff on Monday, June 9.

Children’s activities, including spin art, paper sculpture and other art projects, will begin at 10 a.m. and continue through 4 p.m., when the Midsummer Festival kicks off, on the manse lawn of Southminster Presbyterian Church, next door to the library. Refreshments include food trucks from Community Kitchen, Piccolo Piazza gelato and Tango, which serves Argentinian fare.

“All day long, kids, teens and adults can register for summer reading at one central location,” said associate library director Sharon Bruni.

Musical acts are on tap for the midsummer celebration, along with hands-on arts and crafts and roving entertainers.  The Friends of the Mt. Lebanon Public Library will have specials at the Book Cellar used book store.

“We want it to be a festival atmosphere,” Bruni said.

MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day in Mt. Lebanon, Monday, May 26, will begin with a service at the Veterans Memorial in Mt. Lebanon Park at 8:30 a.m. The service will include patriotic music, speeches, a flag raising and a reading of all of the names of the Mt. Lebanon veterans who sacrificed their lives for their country. Keynote speaker is Cmdr. Jim McStay, a retired Navy pilot. The South Hills Memorial Day Parade, will begin in Brookline at 10 a.m. and will conclude at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery around 11. This year’s parade is dedicated to 1st Lt. Thomas Bird, a Marine Corps helicopter pilot who was Mt. Lebanon’s first casualty of the Vietnam War. Bird Park is named after Lt. Bird. Mt. Lebanon resident Rocky Bleier is this year’s parade grand marshal.