UPCOMING ACTIVTIES
Virtual Death Café(s)
Date: 2nd Thursday of each month Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Format: Zoom
Sponsored by the End of Life Committee, an affiliate of Healthy Adams County
Discussion in a safe space, to explore issues about death, dying, life and living and its effects on ourselves and others. Registration is required. To register please call 717-337-4137 or email jgastley2@wellspan.org
Spring Walking Parties (see below flyer)
Spring Walking Parties – Win Prizes! For both of the scavenger hunts (see schedule noting Scavenger Hunts and Eisenhower Farm Walk Scavenger Hunt list below) – post a picture of you with a scavenger item to the Facebook event and be entered in a drawing to win a ticket to our Summer Ice Cream Walk. For the Barlow Knoll’s “Never Too Old To Walk” post of picture of you on the walk and be entered in a drawing to win a walking stick handmade by local wood craftsman Leo McGuire. And, all those reporting perfect attendance at the final, in-person walk will receive a ticket to our Summer Ice Cream walk.
Attention Parents and Children! The internet is full of free resources to keep you and your children motivated for physical activity!
Click on the following link children-go-for-physical-activity-resources-wm-final-1 to access the “Children Go for Physical Activity – Links for Parents and Children”, which will lead you into the world of health and physical activity, with fun, internet-based links for movement activities. Children and their parents will find some basic searchable internet resources, as well as links to yoga, Zumba, and theme-based movement adventures. Want to foster alphabet sound recognition? Numbers? Colors and Music? Build a simple obstacle course? Find it here – some English, some Spanish – all can be followed by watching the motions! Search and move for a healthier heart!
Developed by the Physical Fitness Task Force and the Children’s Health and Nutrition Task Force of Healthy Adams County, PA.
Visit these websites for other activities happening in the community
YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County: https://www.ywcagettysburg.org/special-events/ & https://www.ywcagettysburg.org/brown-bag-lunch-series-2/
United Way of Adams County: http://www.uwadams.org/Annual-Events
Adams County Arts Council *(scholarships for classes available): https://adamsarts.org/
Adams County Library: https://www.adamslibrary.org/
Gettysburg Rec Park: https://www.gara-recpark.info/
Healthy Adams Bicycle Pedestrian Inc.: http://habpi.org/pages/organized.php
Destination Gettysburg: https://www.destinationgettysburg.com/index.asp
Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve: https://www.strawberryhill.org/
*Under the Horizon: http://underthehorizon.net/
Gettysburg Community Theatre: https://www.gettysburgcommunitytheatre.org/
Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory: https://www.gettysburg.edu/academic-programs/sunderman-conservatory/events/
Adams County Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/adams-county
Penn Cares: https://www.penncares.org/
Pine Grove Furnace State Park: https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/PineGroveFurnaceStatePark/Pages/default.aspx#FindUs
East Berlin Community Center: http://www.ebacc.org/
