The Fall River YMCA invited Fall Riverites to a Healthy Kids Day on April 8, 2006, with a theme of "Put Play in Your Day." Free activities included face painting, game room activities, an Easter Egg scavenger hunt, basketball, and  judo and dance demonstrations. Information tables were also available offered by Dentistry With a Smile, the Diabetes Association and the Fall River Police and Fire Departments. The YMCA offers a full schedule of fitness activities for people of all ages. For further information, call 508-675-7841 or click here to see a schedule.
 

(Top row, left) Leadership Club staff member Leondra Machado plays ping pong in the Y's Game Room with child Care staff member Justin Augusto. (Top row, center) Children are given instructions for the Easter Egg hunt on the facility's third floor. (Top row, right) Crystal Thomas dives for an Easter Egg while Leondra Machado steps aside. (Middle row, left) Kandice Hoyte and her sister Crystal Thomas watch as Diabetes Association Program Director Bill Daponte demonstrates a jump rope that he was giving away to event participants. (Middle row, right) Dentistry With A Smile dentist Dr. Suhair Shamoon and her staff Debora Souza and Jessica Rodrigues greet one of the visitors to the event. All had received hats from the Fall River Fire Department. (Bottom row, left) Ethan Vieira, Dorothy Pacheco and Dylan Vieira line up while Anthony Pacheco takes his turn to shoot. (Bottom row, right) With some with assistance with staff member Mike Mike Cogliati (right), Dylan Vieira takes a shot while Dorothy Pacheco and her father, David, look on..