The second of three
Neighborhood Fund Days took place at Kennedy Park on July 13, 2011 as part
of Project Assist. The
program is a cooperative
venture run by the City of Fall River and SSTAR, an
addiction treatment and health care center
under the Community
Resilience and Recovery Initiative (CRRI).
Funded by a $5.6 million, four-year
grant from SAMSHA, the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, provides counseling
and treatment services for residents affected by the bad economy. One
aspect of the project is to provide positive experiences, especially for
those who are affected by poverty or unemployment, so a series of three
Neighborhood Fun Days were planned during the summer of 2011. The first
one was held on June 28th at Lafayette Park and featured free food, fun
games and activities for children, and access to community resources
tables. Click here
for a 
video of the event. Click
here for photos of the first event at Lafayette Park. For more
information about the project,
contact Paula Beaulieu at
508-837-6957.
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(Top row, left)
Nine-year-old Aaliyah Soto of Fall River looks back from her perch high on
the climbing wall. (Top row, center and right) Tatyana Cipriano of Fall
River has her face painted by Casey Tidwell of Westport and then checks
the results in a mirror. (Second row, left) Eleven-year-old Emily Borges
watches as turtle supplied by Animal
Instincts makes its way across the grass to a leaf of lettuce. (Second
row, center and right) Project Assist
coordinator Paula Beaulieu describes the objectives of the program to
videographer Patrick Mulgrew before resuming her duties passing out cold
water to the crowd with Kendra Rossi and Ashley Almeida. (Third row, left)
Seven-year-old Ricky Costa, Dominic Rego and four-year-old Veronica Jesus
try tossing a ball into a net at the South
Bay Early Intervention table. (Third row, center) CD-REC
staff Annemarie Sharkey, Jamison Souza, Tita Tanguay and Grace Gerling
take a minute from their duties cooking burgers to pose for a photo.
(Third row, right) Seven Hills Behavioral Health
representative Dawn Nardi offers crafts to younger children. (Bottom
row) Children enjoy a tug-o-war competition organized by CD-REC staffer
Jason Springer, at the far right.
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