Our organization; Community Health Institute participated at Festival in the Park, Where wellness meets FUN. This is an annual event hosted by Santa Clara County located at Hellyer County Park San Jose. This fair informs, educates and inspires families from the county to take charge of their health, exercise, fitness and living a healthier lifestyle. It was a perfect fit for us. The event ran from 11am to 4 pm and had 3500 or 4,000 people attend. This year we had a great spot, booth #25 in the middle of row.
We set up at 8:30am, the weather was still a little chill and windy. We quickly finished setting up our booth, so we would have time to enjoy breakfast. The County provided breakfast for all the Exhibitors, but when I walked to the table and I cannot believe what they served; mini Danishes with sugar on top and mini donuts, of course two big pots of Coffee too......SooooSooo disappointed! Is this a Healthy event??? Are we supposed to set a healthy example for others? Some of the exhibitors even brought cases of soda with them. What’s wrong with all the people? Can they just leave the soda at home? I am glad that I always well prepared; I packed my own breakfast, so I wouldn’t be hungry.
Don’t know what happened. Most of the exhibitors show up around 10:30am. Is the event starting at 11:00am?
Because most of the attendees are lower income families, we decided to give everybody a chance to find out their Healthy Weight for No charge (Usually this evaluation goes for $50). I am not a big Fan of the body mass index (BMI), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
We were so busy measuring and calculating people’s ideal weight. At the same time I educated and answered questions and by 1:00pm I almost lost my voice.
The weather turned out just perfect for the event. There were so many activities for family with kids to do. Hope some of the people learned something about improving their lifestyle.
Thanks for the County for organizing this great event and thank for all the volunteers for helping out! See you next summer at Hellyer Park :)
We set up at 8:30am, the weather was still a little chill and windy. We quickly finished setting up our booth, so we would have time to enjoy breakfast. The County provided breakfast for all the Exhibitors, but when I walked to the table and I cannot believe what they served; mini Danishes with sugar on top and mini donuts, of course two big pots of Coffee too......SooooSooo disappointed! Is this a Healthy event??? Are we supposed to set a healthy example for others? Some of the exhibitors even brought cases of soda with them. What’s wrong with all the people? Can they just leave the soda at home? I am glad that I always well prepared; I packed my own breakfast, so I wouldn’t be hungry.
Don’t know what happened. Most of the exhibitors show up around 10:30am. Is the event starting at 11:00am?
Because most of the attendees are lower income families, we decided to give everybody a chance to find out their Healthy Weight for No charge (Usually this evaluation goes for $50). I am not a big Fan of the body mass index (BMI), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
We were so busy measuring and calculating people’s ideal weight. At the same time I educated and answered questions and by 1:00pm I almost lost my voice.
The weather turned out just perfect for the event. There were so many activities for family with kids to do. Hope some of the people learned something about improving their lifestyle.
Thanks for the County for organizing this great event and thank for all the volunteers for helping out! See you next summer at Hellyer Park :)
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