25^th Annual Community Health Fair

The Community Health Fair will be held Saturday, March 27^th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lincoln Park District's Indoor Sports Center.  Admission is free.  Everyone is invited to attend. Please bring a food item for the local pantries.

Do you have recyclable items in your home? The 2009 Community Health Fair will not only provide health screenings and health exhibits, but a chance for you and your family to bring in recyclable items! In the next few weeks there will be a few reminders for you to stock all your recyclable objects. Bring them to the themed Healthy Earth…Healthy You, Community Health Fair. GO GREEN! Start collecting your items now!

For the meantime, start collecting container glass, printer cartridges, cell phones, eye glasses, CFL lightbulbs, pop tabs, plastic bags, medications and mercury products.

Container glass includes glass that has contained food or beverages; colored glass is acceptable. Plastic and metal must be removed, but labels may remain on the container glass. Black and color printer cartridges are acceptable to be recycled. In addition, please bring working and non-working cell phones.

Please bring in new used, damaged or broken eye glasses. Bring all soda can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. Along with unwanted or damaged plastic bags.

Additionally, bring in unused/unwanted medications, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs and asthma inhaler cartridges. Labels may remain on bottles, however, client’s name needs to be marked out. Bring in any unwanted or damaged mercury thermometers and mercury blood pressure cuffs in a sealed container.

Container glass will be collected by Lincoln Jr. Women’s Club (9 am- Noon) at the Lincoln Community High School parking lot. Printer cartridges will be collected by Community Action Partnership of Central Illinois. As well as, cell phones will be collected by Sojourn Center. Lion’s Club will collect eye glasses.  Small residential CFL lightbulbs may be recycled and will be collected by AmerenCILCO. Healthy Community Partnership Parish Nurses will collect all pop tabs. Walmart will collect the plastic bags. Medications will be collected by the Environmental Protection Agency, Kroger Pharmacy, Lincoln Police Department and Logan County Department of Public Health . The Environmental Protection Agency and Logan County Department of Public Health will collect the mercury products.

Begin collecting recyclable items now before April 4^th comes around! Get the entire family together and be a part of GO GREEN 2009!

The Community Health Fair is co-sponsored by the Lincoln Park District and the Logan County Department of Public Health