Representatives of sixty-five of the 150 Healthy City Action Plan Projects gathered on November 13, 2007 at the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium on Bank Street to get to know one another better. "Each of the programs that advance the health of the City tends to work in isolation from one another," commented Healthy City Coordinator David Weed. "The Trade Faire gave people in each of these programs the chance to tell one another about what they do, and, more importantly, to talk about possible collaborations in the coming year," he added. The event also served as the occasion for an announcement of the award to the City of a new wellness grant that will fund a Healthy City/Healthy Lives program over the next five years. Click here to read the Herald News article about the event. For further information about the Healthy City initiative, contact Dr. Weed at 508-324-2411.
 

(Top row, left) Healthy City coordinator Dr. Weed and Rev. Jim Hornsby, representing Green Futures model their Medieval costumes at the Trade Faire, modeled on a King Richard's theme. (Top row, center) Jay and Abby Michaels, AKA the Harper and the Minstrel, play Renaissance music for the crowd as Mayor-elect Representative Robert Correia talks with some of the participants in the background. (Top row, right) Staff and students from the YouthBuild Fall River program, who provided the labor to set up the Faire, and Janet Shartle of the May Institute's Children's Services, try on their paper crowns. (Middle row, left) UMass Extension Nutrition Education Team Leader Pat Bebo laughs in response to the Manager's Minute presentation by Mary Ann Wordell of the Street Tree Planting Program and Joyce Rodrigues dressed as a tree. (Middle row, right) City of Fall River Health and Human Services Director Michael Coughlin announces the receipt of a $280,000 wellness grant to fund a program over the next five years. (Bottom row, left) Ships' Cove Operation Pathways director Liz Bode describes some of the health promotion efforts she is making. (Bottom row, center) May Institute's program director Janet Shartle and staff member Joe Weiss talk about their new "What's Cookin'?" Program funded by a Healthy City micro-grant. (Bottom row, right) Trustees of Reservation property manager Mike Labossiere talks with the three new Bioresere Youth Corps interns.