Miracle Fest added to Celebration Weekend activities

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Geisinger employees have developed even more ways to celebrate during Children’s Miracle Network’s Celebration Weekend 2008 — and they include pets, entertainment, games, paint, trucks and even a scavenger hunt! 
    

The all-new Miracle Fest 2008 will take place Sunday, June 1 in the Knapper Clinic parking lot on the Geisinger Medical Center campus.  The festival kicks off its first activities at 10 am and will conclude at 4 pm.

Miracle Fest will include visits with Tender Paws pet-therapy dogs, emergency-vehicle demonstrations, car-safety presentations, face-painting and more! 

Kids also will have the opportunity to go on a scavenger hunt with their parents or guardians, picking up clues at various stops on the hospital grounds.

All Miracle Fest activities are free, and the public is invited — and encouraged — to attend.

“It will be a lot of fun for kids and families, and we hope everyone will come out for the free events,” says Rebecca Drumheller, CCLS, a Janet Weis Children’s Hospital Child Life Specialist and Miracle Fest committee leader.“Geisinger employees from various departments have invested their time, energy and creativity to making this a fun event — and it has been wonderful to work with all of them."

This is the first year for Miracle Fest, which was created by a committee of Geisinger employees who are donating their time and talents to help Janet Weis Children’s Hospital pediatric services through Children’s Miracle Network at Geisinger.

For more information, call (570) 271-6188.

   The Miracle Fest 2008 health fair 
   will include:

*Car-seat checks (registration required)
**Car-seat bounty
ATV safety
Fire truck and fire safety
Ambulance
Life Flight (if available)
Fall prevention
Water safety
Animal safety
Head injury prevention
Automobile safety
Bicycle safety
Farm safety
Poison prevention
Booster seat use

   *The Janet Weis Children's Hospital 
     Kids Car safety program will be 
     doing car-seat checks in front of 
     the children's hospital. Registration 
     is required. Call Care Link at 
     1-800-275-6401 to set up an 
     appointment.

   **Susquehanna Valley Safekids 
       Network will be holding a car-seat 
       bounty from 1 pm to 4 pm under 
       the health fair tents. In return for
       turning in old, expired and used 
       car seats, families can receive a 
       $5 gift card for Wal-Mart while 
       supplies last.