Promoting Community Health and Safety in the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood
Portland, Maine - Healthy Portland, a Program of the City of Portland’s Health and Human Services Department, Public Health Division and a local Healthy Maine Partnership, will host a neighborhood block party on August 22, 2014 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. The free event, called “Health on the Hill”, will showcase Healthy Portland’s numerous free community health promotion offerings, as well as the efforts of community partners who share similar goals of promoting healthy, active ways of life.
Healthy Portland is collaborating with Friends of the Eastern Promenade, Walking School Bus, Rosemont Market and Bakery, Portland Fire Department, Garbage to Garden, Portland Paddle, Portland Gear Hub, and Portland Recreation to create a fun, educational and interactive event for the residents and visitors of Munjoy Hill. Offerings will include bagged lunches for sale by Rosemont Market featuring local foods, as well as free resources and activities including information on smoke-free homes and lead poisoning prevention, interactive physical activity demonstrations and 5210 Let’s Go!, hands-only CPR with the Portland Fire Department, healthy food samples provided by registered dieticians, safe medication storage and disposal, composting demonstrations and resources for opportunities to be physically active in your community.
Amanda Hutchins, Community Health Promotion Specialist for Healthy Portland, says that she and her
