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Not Your Everyday Health Fair

Imagine a health fair where you really learn about health. Where the guy who looks like a heart attack waiting to happen gasps, grabs his arm, and falls to the ground. As the paramedics dash up and start working on him, a woman in a white lab coat addresses the gathering crowd, talking about heart attacks, what causes them, how modern medicine deals with them, how to prevent them. That would get your attention, wouldn’t it?

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Parents Sign Up for HIPPY at Riverwest Schools

HIPPY isn’t about the 60′s. It’s Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). Giving parents the tools, experience, and help they need to become involved in their preschool youngsters’ education is what this free Riverwest program is all about. And when parents get involved, kids do well in school.