Games, crafts and sundaes highlight Family Fun Day Sundae event at Lynch Field

Quinn Ingram grasped a plastic ball and surveyed the table prior to her to locate the ideal hat to have on.

After she viewed her father, Garrett, model a eco-friendly dinosaur head masking, it was 2-calendar year-aged Quinn’s switch to don the headgear.

The Ingrams, of Greensburg, have been among the throngs of folks who turned out Sunday afternoon at Lynch Subject for the ParentWISE application of Wesley Family members Solutions Family members Exciting Day Sundae function to market social products and services and nearby nonprofits’ initiatives in the neighborhood.

Julie Cawoski, director of Relatives and Neighborhood Support Applications for ParentWISE, stated that for the next straight calendar year the pandemic resulted in the relocation of the function to outside from its regular home inside of Nevin Arena. The hope is the event will return to its roots next summer season for what would be the 25th anniversary of the group’s Ice Product Blast.

Ice product was however section of Sunday’s celebration. Young children gained a coupon from the Greensburg Dairy Queen to acquire a free of charge sundae, Cawoski said.

The video games and crafts booths, which have extensive been section of the ParentWISE event, remained. ParentWISE sponsors education programs for households to enable reduce child abuse, neglect, and family members and group violence in Westmoreland County.

“It’s critical to rejoice families. ParentWISE is about sharing time with households, and this enables kids to be inventive,” Cawoski claimed. “And it offers mothers and fathers concepts about items they can do at dwelling to assist enhancement of small children.”

Extra than 20 agencies sponsored booths on Sunday, sharing facts about products and services they present and pursuits for the young children.

Sarah Opalinski, a prevention expert with the Westmoreland Drug and Alcoholic beverages Commission, helped kids to undertake and identify “pets” in the form of tiny stuffed toys.

“It’s all about producing superior possibilities,” Opalinski said. “We’re listed here just about every 12 months. Dependancy does not depart out everyone, and we want to make positive the group is aware of what we do and has every little thing it desires.”

The rain held off for most of the afternoon, leaving families time to flow into by all of the functions.

“This is an possibility to thank the neighborhood with free of charge, very low-tech entertaining for kids and promote what (products and services) are available,” Cawoski mentioned.