The Diabetes Association and the Family Services Association teamed up to put on a "Families Raising Healthy Kids" event at the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium on November 9, 2006. Children and staff from Family Service Association after-school day care sites were invited to participate in activities following a health presentation by Captain Nutrition and a presentation of awards from Bank Five. Activities included hula hoop making, hip-hop dance instruction, and a game of "Fitness Monopoly" in which children were challenged to perform a variety of fitness tasks as they moved around the "board" outlined on the gym floor. The event was held during National Family Week, held each November, to provide information and education on thinking and behavior as they relate to good health and strong families. Click here for other photos of event activities.
 

(Top row, left) Jim Masse assists children as they help themselves to a free home-made hula hoop that they were free to decorate. (Top row, center) Highland after-school day care staff member Tiffany Correia helps the children with their hula hoops. (Top row, right) Eight-year-old Sean Skipper demonstrates what to do with his hula hoop. (Middle row, left and right) Staff from the Pose Dance Company take kids through a number of hip-hop dance steps. (Bottom row, left and right) Seven-year-old Jazen Dion and his ten-year-old brother Tyler do push-ups as part of the "Fitness Monopoly" game set up on the gym floor while their mom watches. (Bottom row, center) Nine-year-old Zachery Pereira does a bicycle exercise in the monopoly game.