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What is “Streets Alive!”?

Families can play in the streets on Sunday, September 10!

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very September, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln takes health and wellness resources into the community and adds food, fitness and fun with Streets Alive! our free city-wide outdoor movement festival. This year it will be hosted by the Belmont Neighborhood, on September 10, from 1-5 PM. Streets Alive! is a family, child, pet, and wheelchair friendly event that promotes good nutrition and active living, encouraging people to get out and get moving. Garden produce and food trucks with tasty, fresh choices show visitors the joy of eating healthy. Streets Alive! is a traffic-free event with two miles of city streets cordoned off for fun & learning. The streets are lined with over 100 exhibitors from non-profit organizations who provide free resources and screenings to festival goers. All along the route there are joinin fitness and sports activities to encourage people to walk, run, stroll, propel a wheelchair, bike or skate their way through the festival and participate in active outdoor fun.

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Streets Alive! is filled with fun and interactive kids’ activities that teach as well as entertain. But it’s not just for kids. People of all ages and abilities can enjoy Streets Alive! The festival route is interspersed with music, art, dance, and other entertainment that appeals to people of all ages and tastes. This year, Streets Alive! will also support a neighborhood project in collaboration with the Belmont Neighborhood Association, Lincoln Parks and Recreation, plus neighborhood businesses and schools. The project encourages physical activity and enhances the beauty, safety, and vitality of Belmont and our wider community. To learn more, contact Ashley Carlson, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, at 402-430-4505, acarlson@healthylincoln.org, or visit our website at HealthyLincoln. org/StreetsAlive. This article is written & sponsored by Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln (PHL), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health by increasing physical fitness, promoting healthy weight and good nutrition, supporting breastfeeding, and improving cancer screening and vaccination rates.