Through the collaboration of the Alabama Alliance for Latino Health and HOLA Latino, the Multicultural Resource Center will hold its Hoover Health Festival on Sunday May 3. This event is coordinated primarily by the coalition of providers of health and social services whose mission is to maintain a system of collaboration between agencies and participating members who are committed to providing programs and quality health services that serve the Latino community in Alabama.

The event will begin at 10 am and will run until 2 pm. Additionally, families that come to “La Casita” can enjoy a variety of activities to be held in conjunction with the Cinco de Mayo Festival.

Census representatives met on April 23 in Hoover to form a Hispanic committee. This is a very important event which seeks to encourage the Hispanic community in Alabama to participate in and be counted in the census.

The countdown to the 2010 census has already begun, and their employees want to be sure that everyone is informed. The Census Bureau has launched a national effort that has spent $ 300 billion dollars in federal assistance to state and local governments. The 2010 Census will have one of the shortest questionnaires in the history of the United States, whose origin dates from the year 1790. The 2010 census asks only the name, sex, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and whether the householder owns or rents. It only takes about 10 minutes on average to complete, and responses are protected by law and strictly confidential. The meeting took place at 2020 Valleydale Road in Hoover on Thursday April 23 at 6:30 pm.

The Festival began in Tuscaloosa in 2002, moved to Gadsden in 2004 and 2005. Later it took place at the Fair Park in 2006 and 2007 and at Alabama Adventure in 2008. This year the organizers of Festival Cinco de Mayo decided to have the festival in collaboration with the Multicultural Resource Center of Hoover and the Alabama Alliance for Latino Health.

As in previous years, the Festival will feature different attractions including children’s games and prizes. Mayfield Ice Cream will be distributing ice cream among the attendees. There will also be prizes given out through organized games of the roulette wheel, as well as give-a-ways from the participating organizations.

The event will take place on Sunday May 3 from 10 am to 2 pm, in the area surrounding “La Casita” in Hoover.