HEALTH AND HARVESTFEST TODAY

Join us for The Health & HarvestFest on Springfield Avenue, our annual celebration of Fall on Springfield Avenue. This year we are joining with the Maplewood Loves Wellness Health Fair and creating one wonderful family event which will offer something for every member of your family to enjoy. There’s lots of great things for the kids to do and just as much for the parents.

For the kids, there’s pumpkin painting, a bounce house, pony rides, face painting, glitter tattoos, and crafts. And that’s just for starters! Plus, we like to keep the parents happy, too, so there will be many wonderful retail vendors selling a great variety of fun merchandise health and wellness information and vendors, plus local merchants and non profit companies will be on site so adults can also learn more about what’s happening in our town.

To top it off and keep the groove going, there will be live local bands playing and performances and demos by our Springfield Avenue Merchants and well as the very popular Healthy Cooking Contest at Noon. The Gazebo performance schedule is as follows:

At the Gazebo stage, sponsored by BCB Community Bank of South Orange, and the demonstrations, performances & music schedule follows:
11:00 am – DJ Jimmy B
12:00 pm – American Sweetheart
1:00 pm – Inspirational Dance
1:15 – Blue Life Karate
1:30 – Viva Z Club
1:50 – LaChaney’s Dance & Music Academy
2:00 – Malcolm & Meg

The Healthy Cooking Contest takes place at noon and includes free samples! This year’s entrants are Pimento Grill, The Rack, Park Wood Diner, Abril Cocina, Lickt Gelato, Maplewood Pizzeria, Holly’s Fish Fry and returning champ Winchester Gardens.

Activities for the kids are unlimited with the purchase of a $5.00 wristband and include:

• Pumpkin patch and painting sponsored by Express Yourself Studios
• Bounce House sponsored by CKO Kickboxing of Maplewood
• Petting Zoo sponsored by Le Petit Academy & Meineke Car Care Center
• Pony Rides sponsored by Blue Life Karate, Tile Design Inspirations & Advance Auto Parts
• Wristbands are sponsored by Woolley Fuel Oil
• Other event activities including hula hoops and sidewalk graffiti are sponsored by Valentine Plumbing,
  Vanessa Pollock of KWR Midtown Direct Realty, Time to Clean and County to County Landscaping

There will also be a chair yoga demonstration by Radiant Health Easy Yoga, time TBA and be sure to stop by the Maplewood Loves Wellness book for a complimentary copy of their cookbook Tastes of Maplewood | Healthy Cooking Recipes from Local Eateries, while supplies last.