‘COLOR’ event is huge success, over 300 join in

Posted September 28, 2016 at 9:01 am


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A new event that was another attempt to convince the local population that we need to be more physically active and involved in family oriented events has been termed as a tremendous success by organizers and will likely become at least an annual event.

Christy Nuetzman, the Clinton County Extension Office Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences, told the Clinton County News during Saturday’s Color Your World with Health and Imagination that she was more than thrilled with the way the local population had embraced the new event and turned out to participate.

“We saw the participation numbers waning somewhat in the Second Sunday the past couple of years, so we decided to try this format on a Saturday a little earlier in the year,” Nuetzman said Saturday morning as she passed out free t-shirts to participants.

Saturday’s program was primarily sponsored by the Clinton County Extension Office and had several other local partners that helped with the morning-long schedule, including helping with organizing the various events as well as several local entities that set up resourse booths near the entrance at Mountain View Recreation Park to hand out informational materials, mostly health related.

The event was also partnered with the Saturday morning Century 21 soccer game schedules.

Among the events held Saturday that urged participants to increase physical activity levels were a fun run and walk, a scavenger hunt that included participation in the Get Fit stations recently installed along a portion of the walking track that surrounds the park, inflatables for the younger crowd and disc golf.

The new playground equipment at the park was also a busy location for children throughout the morning.

Additional activities that were tied into Saturday’s “Color” event also included a rocket competition and bicycle rodeo at Clinton County Middle School as well as a scavenger hunt related book give away at the Clinton County Public Library.

Nuetzman indicated that in all likelihood, last week’s Color Your World program would replace the Second Sunday program that for the past several years has been held in October prior to the annual Foothills Festival Gospel Singing.

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