Despite the cloudy weather, the HealthFirst Family Care Center, a non-profit community health center, held their sixth Annual Family Fun in the Sun event on June 5, 2010. These free annual events are designed to emphasize the importance of increased physical activity, good nutrition and summer safety for the entire family. Activities included music and exercising to music provided by DJ Mike Cordeiro of MC Music Productions. HealthFirst and Fall River WIC Program staff members offered crafts, games, and healthy refreshments. Staff from United Neighbors provided face painting and free coloring books designed by staff member Kristin Gunderson. Fall River Police Department officers and members of the Mount Hope Lodge of Masons provided a child identification program that included video, DNA samples, dental impressions and fingerprinting. Click here for pictures of the 2008 event, and here for the event three years ago. For more information services offered by HealthFirst, call Paula Harrison at 508-679-9376, Ext. 204.
 

(Top row, left) Chairman of the HealthFirst Board of Directors Gene P. Alves and Peg Marchand sit at the refreshment table that offered healthy snacks, including plenty of fruit. (Top row, center) Director of Community Relations and Development Paula Harrison admires the face painting that five-year-old Nicole Aleantara observes in the mirror. (Top row, right) HealthFirst Outreach Coordinator Linda Hennessey watches as ten-year-old Linecha Leonirio and her seven-year-old brother, Chaniel, try their hand at netting rubber fish. (Middle row, left) Nine-year-old Maxim Macura drinks an orange juice while his mother, Crystal, fills out an application for child identification with a volunteer from the Mount Hope Lodge of Masons. (Middle row, center) Six-year-old Meadow Worsley holds a drawing that she colored at the United Neighbors table. (Middle row, right) Jonah Kallio, Ashley Debeiro and Maxwell Kallio play a game with three-year-old Tyrique Lewis while her grandmother, Tammy Brown, helps her. (Bottom row, left) Nine-year-old Isaiah Casimir races to fill his bucket with water from a sponge as ten-year-old Norman Reed races behind him. (Bottom row, center) Freemason Luis Ferreiro instructs Christine Medeiros and her infant son, Dereck, as Kevin Mota videotapes them as part of the child identification program. (Bottom row, right) Registered Dental Hygienist Melissa Melanson tries to get a reluctant Angelina Rodrigues to let her get a saliva sample for DNA records as her mother, Nevaehya, looks on.