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Show Hospital's Back-to-School Health Fair Friday The fourth annual American Fork Hospital Back-to-School Children's Health Fair will be held Friday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the hospital (170 N. 1100 East in American Fork). All activities and presentations are open to the public pub-lic and are free of charge. "American Fork Hospital is pleased to sponsos this event each year as a community service," says Administrator Craig Smedley. The fair helps children learn about good health in a fun environment, and it also lets them know that the hospital hospi-tal is their friend." At the health fair, children will be able to participate in fun activities activi-ties dealing with many facets of health. Attractions will include a first-aid trail, a "junior surgeon" operating room, an EKG "heartbeat" "heart-beat" booth, a muscle workout station, sta-tion, nutrition games, laboratory and x-ray exploration posts, a "fun with dental health" booth, safety displays, ambulance rides, a growth-assessment growth-assessment station, a talking ambulance robot, and more. The Utah County Health Department, De-partment, North Utah County Dentist's Association, and American Ameri-can Fork Police Department will all be participating in the fair. In addition to health-related activities, children attending the fair will enjoy carnival rides, clowns, magic shows, sno-cones, and cotton cot-ton candy. Everything is free. Many free gifts will also be given out including a 64-page emergency guide (one per family), full-color wall growth charts, coloring books and crayons, and much more. In addition, there will be several drawings draw-ings for valuable prizes. For more information about the Back-to-School Children's Health Fair, call 763-3505. |