Veterans and current military personnel can ride for free all day Thursday on Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky buses Thursday.

BOONE COUNTY

• BURLINGTON - Last year's second-grade class from Immaculate Heart of Mary School will begin a Veterans Day assembly at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday by honoring Tia Meyer, a soldier the children adopted who has returned from Iraq.

The assembly, for children in grades 2-4, also will include a reading of a letter from President Bush, and a flag ceremony from the Boone County Sheriff Color Guard.

• FLORENCE - Elizabeth Wilson, a cadet captain in the Kentucky Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary, will recognize veterans with a speech at 6 p.m. Thursday at the annual Veterans Day program at the Boone County Veterans Memorial on the Florence Government Center's campus, 8100 Ewing Blvd.

The event also includes music from the Florence Community Band, and the Boone and Florence honor guards..

KENTON COUNTY

• CRESCENT SPRINGS - A Veterans Day service begins at 2 p.m. today at Kenton County Veterans Memorial, corner of Buttermilk Pike and Collins Road.

Lt. Col. Earl Nichols, a World War II Army veteran who served in General George Patton's Third Army to the Rhine River in Germany, will speak.

• ERLANGER - A Veterans Day ceremony begins at 2 p.m. today at the Kenton County Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dixie Highway.

CAMPBELL COUNTY

• COLD SPRING - A Disabled American Veterans ceremony begins at 10 a.m. Thursday at the group's national headquarters, 3725 Alexandria Pike.

• HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - Northern Kentucky University Biological Sciences professor Becky Evans will talk about her time spent in Iraq and Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom at a faculty luncheon seminar beginning at 12:05 p.m. Wednesday in Room 304 of the W. Frank Steely Library. Register by e-mail crusem@nku.edu or call (859) 572-5803.

• HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas, a Boone County Democrat, will attend Northern Kentucky University's ceremony outside the Steely Library, 11 a.m.-noon Thursday.

• NEWPORT - A Veterans Day ceremony begins at 11 am. Thursday, at the city's municipal building, 998 Monmouth St.