T-L Photo/CARRI GRAHAM 1-2. Local veterans are featured on banners displayed along Main and Market streets throughout Cadiz leading up to Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

CADIZ — The village of Cadiz is now displaying 40 banners featuring local veterans throughout its streets and is offering to help neighboring communities do the same.

The Cadiz Business Association partnered with the Harrison County Visitors Center to honor veterans with the “Hometown Heroes” banners leading up to Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Participants hung all 40 banners Wednesday evening along Main and Market streets in Cadiz. Each banner features a photo of a veteran along with their name, rank, branch of military service and years of service.

This is the first year the village has adorned the streets with the veterans banners.

Janet Fenstamaker, office manager at the visitors center, said the organizations are thrilled with the results.

“They look great. We’re glad we could get all 40 up,” she said. “Thank you to the village workers for putting them up.”

The organizations are hoping to obtain additional brackets in order to hang a larger number of banners next year.

The veteran banners will be displayed until late November, when the village’s Christmas banners will be put up for display.

Those residents who purchased a veterans banner may choose to either keep the banner or allow the village to keep it to be displayed once again next year.

The visitors center is offering its assistance to neighboring communities in Harrison County that may want to display banners of their own. Fenstamaker said the office has secured a contract with American Electric Power in order to utilize the company’s poles to hang the banners in communities in the county that do not possess their own poles.

“We have the information on how other communities can do it. For example, I live in Piedmont, we are just run by our township. In order to hang the banners, we’d have to use the AEP poles because we don’t have light poles in our town,” she said.

Fenstamaker said she has all the information necessary for communities to obtain permission from AEP to utilize the power company’s poles.

If any local communities are interested in displaying banners and need to utilize the AEP poles, they can call the visitors center at 740-942-1102.

“I think it would be really nice if we could get them up all over the county,” Fenstamaker said of the banners.

Fenstamaker said a restaurant in Freeport, Raidar, has offered to display the banners in time for Veterans Day if any resident would like to do so.