Free Family Field Day

Saturday May 7, 2011

What a great day, and if you missed it, you should ask someone that made it how much fun it was! It is amazing that it is free.  Family Field Day is presented by Subway Restaurants and is a collaborative effort of the CWU Dietetic Internship, FitKids USA and The Yakima Greenway Foundation. A huge thanks to the Catholic Credit Union for supporting the event and having Kirby Kangaroo come out for the day.  We also appreciate the photos that were published in the YHR, which captured some of the great fun that was had by all.

Combining fun activities for the entire family with nutritional ways of improving your health is a natural.  Less than 50 participated the first year, this year 930 registered.  What a great kick off for the Kiddin’ Around program, a summer-long activity program for kids and their parents. 

See you at next year’s Family Field Day!.

Family Field Day is a great Day to practice for the Jr. Gap2Gap for both the Kayak
and the obstacle course. 

Family Field day brings three great organization together to help promote nutrition, fitness and ways of playing together as a family.  The local Dietetics Association, FitKids, and the Yakima Greenway Foundation provide several fun events that tie nutrition and healthy lifestyles with fitness and well being.  There are many activities like the Kayak/Canoe, tennis, hula hoops, jump rope, soccer, an excellent obstacle course and an unbelievable game of tag.  This event is for all ages and we encourage families to come together so they can learn and play together.

Central Washington University Dietetic Internship

The Yakima Greenway Foundation would like to thank Kathleen Goyette and Tom Kelleher from Fit Kids USA and Linda Cashman from the CWU Dietetic Interns for their endless energy and amazing creativity to help make and continue our Family Field Day Event.  The event just keeps getting bigger and better every year.  If you have not been to a FFD event, you gotta check it out, it is all about fun.

Contributors list…

To those who donated or volunteered their time, talents and products we can not thank you enough.  The list includes the Gap2Gap committee, Yakima Search and Rescue, Rev it Up, Inaba Farms, Yakima Valley Dietetic Association, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, Yakima County Health Department, Yakima Tennis Club, Yakima Athletic Club, The First Tee of Yakima, Pro-Action Martial Arts, Yakima Bears Baseball, Yakima Hotshots Basketball, Yakima Police Athletic League, Food Services of America, Fiesta Foods, Safeway, Wray’s Thriftway, Walmart, White Pass Ski Area, Oxarc, Macro Plastics and Dasani Water.

See Fit Kids USA Web site.