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Public
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Black History
Month at DC 37
Fitness, fun and family
Children
wait patiently for colorful balloons to be twisted into fantasy pets, swords,
and crowns.
DC
37 members’ children enjoyed a range of activities
like archery, fencing
and facepainting at DC 37’s annual Family Day.
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It was a DC 37 family affair Feb. 6 as hundreds
of members’ children and grandchildren enjoyed fitness and fun at the Black
History Committee’s annual Family Day.
Three floors of workshops and
activities at the union hall greeted the little ones and their parents at one
of the highlights of DC 37’s celebration of Black History Month. Children
with brightly painted faces and superhero tattoos clung to candy-colored balloons
shaped and twisted into animals, swords and crowns. Puppeteer Bruce Cannon, a
member of Local 299, told Harlem’s story of great migrations with marionettes
and music.
The day also featured a golf clinic for kids, double-dutch sessions,
fencing, and archery lessons for amateurs by Larry Brown, the former coach of
Columbia University’s archery team, who coaches kids in Brooklyn, the Bronx
and Manhattan and at the Children’s Aid Society summer camp. His Center Shot
Archers joined him at Family Day before they headed off to the national championship
competitions.
“This is fun and so much better than
video games or hanging around the house,” said Faybian Jaysura, whose mother
is in Local 420.
Fitness guru and personal trainer Vince Ferguson of Bodysculpt
energized the crowd with funky workouts, financial whiz Gwendolyn Williams advised
parents on investing wisely, and expert Fred Lane led a financial aid workshop
for college-bound students and their parents.
Public Health
Nurses from Local 436 offered hands-on healthy-living tips, and massage therapist
Vance Allen soothed parents’ tense muscles.
Nurses
from Local 436 take members’ blood pressure at the annual BHC Family Day
event Feb. 6 where dozens of union families learned about healthy living, finance
and fitness.
| The threat of
a snowstorm did not deter sisters Lily and Qiao Kun Kuang, who came to Family
Day with the latter’s daughter Michelle, 4. “There’s so much here
to see and do, it’s great that my union provides fun activities like this,”
said Lily, a Local 1549 member.
Black History Committee members Nola Brooker,
Professional Division director; Tyler Hemmingway, assistant director of the Hospitals
Division; Audrey Iszard, executive vice president of the DC 37 Retirees Association
and others helped organize the event. They offered big thanks for contributing
to the success of Family Day to Locals 299, 371, 374, 420, 768, 924, 957, 983,
1219, 1359, 1482, 1549, 1655, 1930 and the DC 37 Retirees Association. —
Diane S. Williams
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