The Father Kelly Neighborhood Association held a Family Fun day at the Park on September 29, 2012 to give children a chance to have some good old fashioned fun. Former Scholarship City Softball League director Jack Hackett, who served from 1963 to 2012, led the children in a number of games including the Fall River Fire Department Safety Van, face painting, a bean bag toss and an scavenger hunt with dollar bills as prizes. Street Tree Planting Program coordinator Mary Ann Wordell was on hand to support the upcoming Community Preservation Act measure, and staff from the Massachusetts Probation Services office raffled off four new bicycles. Click here for a three-minute video of the scavenger hunt. Click here for more photos of the mural in the Park. For more information, contact Neighborhood Outreach coordinator Perry Long at 508-676-0324.

(Top row, left) Debbie Ferreira and Sandy Bernier chat in front of the huge mural that extends along the entire wall of Buldoc's Lumber on Dwelly Street and includes a rendering of neighborhood hero Jack Hackett. (Top row, center) Grandmother Joy Medeiros negotiates a Halloween candy purchase by her granddaughter, Mackenzie, and grandson, Maddox Veilleux. (Top row, right) Patrick DeCastro and Owen Sousa work on painting their pumpkins. (Rrow two, left and right) Carol Silvia, Mark Costa and Mary Freitas of the Massachusetts Probation Service point out the bicycles they are raffling off later in the day. (Row two, center) Samantha Shields and Olivea Balestracci toss bean bags into a target for prizes.  (Row three, left) Fall River special operations police officer Joshua Correira talks with Andrew Arruda. (Row three, center) Street Tree Planting Program coordinator Mary Ann Wordell displays a brochure in support of Community Preservation while Anne-Marie Grillo looks at a rendering of the planns for the Quequechan River Greenway. (Row three, right) Jack Hackett and Father Kelly Neighborhood Association president Rosemary Lapointe gather the children for an egg hunt game. (Bottom row, center and right) Nine-year-old Jamie Aguiar and three-year-old Jolyn Arruda bring their eggs back to claim their dollar bills.