Photos and article by Mary Alice Murphy

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The Community Partnership for Children hosted a successful event on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023 at Bataan Park. Taking over most of the park, the organization had vendors and information booths in the park pavilion and an EMS helicopter landed  in the field.

Kids of all ages, as well as adults, traveled a trail around the park and often threw, with great glee, a non-toxic color paint powder on one another. The volleyball court had players, and a raffle gave away bikes, scooters and other gifts. The culmination of the event was on one of the playing fields where a giant foam machine shot out great puffs of green foam on kids frolicking in and tossing the foam bits all over one another. Every participant had colorful clothes by the end of the event.