The annual WIC Family Fun Day was held at Heritage Park on September 12, 2008. The event featured animal exhibits, children's books, storytelling, pony rides, face painting and healthy food for everyone. The event also featured an intergenerational theme as residents from the Highland Manor Nursing Home enjoyed visiting the children at the event. The WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Nutrition Program operates at the HealthFirst Family Care Center at 102 County Street, Fall River. WIC provides nutrition and health education, healthy food and other services free of charge to Massachusetts families who qualify.  WIC’s goal is to help keep pregnant and breastfeeding women, new moms, and kids under age 5 healthy. WIC also offers immunization screening and referral, breastfeeding support, and nutrition and health workshops on a variety of topics including meal planning, maintaining a healthy weight, picky eaters, caring for a new baby, and shopping on a budget. Click here to see the 2005 Family Fun Day. For more information, contact Colleen Kenyon at 508-679-9349
 

(Top row, left) WIC staff member Laurie Andrade holds 17-month-old Seth O'Neill as Erin Babbitt of Stony Creek Farm in Swansea leads the pony. (Top row, center) Four-year-old Adam Jaglowski gets his face painted by WIC staff member Sandra Montana. (Top row, right) Two-year-old Lukas Bouchard holds his hand print from the South Bay Mental Health table while his mother, Sarah, holds him. (Middle row, left) Grandmother Carolyn Gagne, Carla Ferreira and her son Zak, Arsenio Uhrig and his daughter Imogen, Jacqueline Gagne-Bouchard and her son David, listen to Deb Lavoie from the PI Early Intervention program instruct them in infant massage. (Middle row, center) Heidi Chiavaroli walks with her children, Noah and James, along with Aimee Bettencourt, her daughter Anna and Sophie in the carriage, across the bridge to Heritage State Park. (Middle row, right) Elsa Harding is escorted by Activity Director Pat Pavao while Alia Krall is escorted by Sue Cordeiro from the Highland Manor Nursing Home. (Bottom row, left) Four-year-old Evan Medrano pets a live alligator while nine-year-old Mason Pimental questions the naturalist. (Bottom row, center and right) Dressed in a Tweety Bird costume, WIC staff member Lisa Aguiar entertains Mason Pimental and the other children prior to Fall River children's librarian Dave Mello begins telling a story.