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Urban Nutrition Initiative recent news and events (work in progress).
 
UNI Events - Spring 2005


• Saturday, June 4
   Youth Voices in Agriculture: Youth “field day” in Camden, NJ (tentative).

• Wednesday & Thursday, June 1 & 2
   Youth Obesity Summit - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences- in Washington D.C.

• Wednesday, June 1
   Shaw Middle School International Food Festival - 54th Street and Warrington Street, 1 - 3 pm.

• Tuesday, May 17
   Turner Final Presentation:
Join one of the seventh grade classes at Turner Middle School, as they celebrate and present their final group project on nutrition education. This fun, food tasting event will be Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 from 2:15pm until 3:00pm in room 321. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Alexia at brownale-at-sas.upenn.edu.

• Friday, May 13
   Penn Alumni Weekend Service Project.

• Thursday, May 5
   Tropical Tastes with and Urban Flavor at Turner:
Come and experience tropical tastes with an urban flavor. One of the seventh grade classes at Turner Middle School will have a food sampling and nutritional lesson of common fruits, vegetables and nuts eaten at most Hawaiin luaus. The event will take place on Thursday, May 5th from at 1:30pm in room 215 at Turner Middle School. Please RSVP by May 3rd to Alexia via e-mail: brownale-at-sas.upenn.edu

• Wednesday, May 4
   Childhood Obesity: Collaborations Towards Solutions Forum:
United Way Building, 7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 6 pm.

• Sunday, May 1 & Saturday, May 7
   Annenberg Children’s Festival - UNI Fruit Stand.

• Sunday, May 1
   West Philadelphia Children’s Festival in Clark Park-UNI Fruit Stand, 11 am - 3 pm.

• Saturday, April 29
   Wilson Elementary School Earth Day Celebration (call for details).

• Friday, April 28
   Shaw Middle School Garden Clean Up (call for details).

• Thursday, April 21
   “Girls on the Go” (girls after school health club). Final Banquet.


 
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Philadelphia PA 19104 Phone: (215) 898-1600 - Fax: (215) 573 - 1134