planning the healthy holifday event

Last week was mostly about recapping what I have been doing and making sure that all the Healthy Holiday participants are getting ready for the event on December 7th. I got another co-worker to say she will participate in the food part so now I think I have everything covered other than ‘healthy finances,’ which I will do. The areas for food that will be presented are appetizers, soup, main course, sides, and dessert. Stasi is doing appetizers and Missy is doing desserts. We will spend the first half of the event discussing food and the other healthy areas; the second part will be devoted to book reading and distribution along with other activities. We want Nick to play Santa and we want to have door prizes as well.

Now for the hard part, promoting the event. As with the vegetarian class, Sarah says it is hard to get people to attend events. Missy is working on a flier that will mention the free food and recipe cards as well as the book distribution. The Polish Home Hall is closer to many of the neighborhoods than the MCEEC (environmental center). I am hoping this means people will be willing to take a stroll down the block and enjoy a Holiday event.

The CCBB meeting is this coming Monday and I am going to e-mail Gail to see if we can have a moment to stand up and talk about the event. Seeing that no one from these meetings came to my veggie class (do I sound bitter?), I don’t know how to get these people to attend things that they do not put on.

I need to think of a good way to talk about healthy finances without offending anyone or discussing ideas that seem impossible. I know that I am going to discuss divvying up money and not going over it, as well as coupons for things. If children are there, I will suggest they male their parents a coupon book. I would like to research something more creative though and that is what I will be doing this week.

I am going to meet individually with some of the event participants to talk about what they are contributing. My friend Ivy is doing the ‘healthy fun’ area and I know she wants to go over her ideas.

As for the interviews that I am to be participating in, I hope that there are some next week because I am running out of time and have only been to a few. At least I know that I am going to be taking a lot of photos that will be used and that is of great importance to me. I want to know that I have helped document information that will be used historically.

Sarah did end up interviewing Betty Welley last week; I look forward to hearing how that went over. It seems that a lot of these interviews happen at the last minute and then Sarah texts me the morning of and sometimes I just can’t do it. I guess this is just how things happen sometimes; doing the best I can for the part of my final project.

I am going to stay positive and keep trying until the very end, I want to see success stories wherever possible!

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