Page 30 - Inspire Health January/February 2017

LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Fitness walks, festivals and fundraisers throughout the Lehigh Valley
Ongoing
Peas & Q’s Family
Programming
This free, weekly event on Saturdays at
SteelStacks in Bethlehem features music
and entertainment for the whole family.
Depending on weather, the events can
be held indoors or outdoors. The facility
is handicap accessible and features a
picnic area, snack stand and restrooms.
Convenient parking can be found just
a short walk from SteelStacks. For
information on performers or scheduled
events, visit steelstacks.org/events/peas- Sunday, Jan. 15
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Free Sundays at
The Allentown Art Museum
Every Sunday, admission to the
Allentown Art Museum is free for the
whole family. Events include:
• 12:30-3 p.m.: Kids, bring your parents
up to Arts Ways Family Interactive
Gallery on the museum’s second floor
for Artventures: hands-on artmaking
activities for children of all ages.
• 2 p.m.: Docent-led tour of the special
exhibition Past Present: Conversations
across Time. Meet in the lobby.
Ongoing starting Monday,
Jan. 2
Frozen Fun at
Da Vinci Science Center
Explore a Winter Village featuring
a 20-foot-long model train display and
build with Imagination Playground
blocks inside a Frozen Palace. Create
your own six-sided snowflake at
Inquiry Island, test it in a 7-foot wind
tube, and watch it glide through the air.
Check out Frozen Magic Live Science
Shows, where liquid nitrogen is used to
explore what it would be like to have
magical frozen powers. All programs
will not be available every day. Go to
davincisciencecenter.org/frozen for a full
list of events and details.
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Saturday, Jan. 14
Animal presentation, walk
at Covered Bridge Park
Enjoy an up-close meet and greet with
some Pennsylvania species at noon, then
join an expert tracker to find out what
the wildlife of Covered Bridge Park has
been up to. Hot cocoa will be served
after the walk. Cost for this event at
Allentown’s Covered Bridge Park is $5.
For more information, call 610-965-4397,
Ext. 136.
Geocaching in Allentown’s
West Park arboretum
Embark on a treasure hunt at noon
in the West Park arboretum. Using a
GPS unit (provided), participants will
navigate to a specific set of coordinates
and then attempt to find the geocache,
or container, hidden at that location.
Instruction will also be provided. For
more information, call 610-965-4397,
Ext. 136.
Thursday, Jan. 19
You & Me:
Last Teddy in the Woods
It’s a woodland adventure with
stuffed animals for children 3-5 and their start at 7 p.m. Snow date will be Jan. 28.
grownups. The program, at the Pool
Wildlife Sanctuary’s Trexler Building in
Emmaus, will include hot chocolate, a
whimsical story about a sleeping bear, and For more information, call 610-285-5000
a mammal presentation. Bring a stuffed
animal to the program, so it can be
hidden before the hike. The furry friend
will be ready to go home unharmed.
The program costs $9. For more
information, call 610-965-4397,
Ext. 136.
Saturday, Jan. 21
Stone Soup Stroll
Like the folktale “Stone Soup,” in
which the power of the community
transforms a meal, nature is a community
of interdependent organisms of different
species growing or living together and
contributing to a specified habitat. Prior
to the hike, the group will start two
big pots of “Stone Soup” over an open
fire. Attendees are asked to bring a
vegetable, fresh or canned, to add to the
community pots, which will be beef-
based and vegetarian-based. While the
soups simmer, the group will hit the trails
at the Pool Wildlife Sanctuary. The walk
is appropriate for children of all ages,
and leashed dogs are welcome. Bring a
camera and/or binoculars to view the
forest, and wear appropriate clothing and
sturdy footwear. For more information,
call 610-965-4397, Ext. 136.
Dance For a Cure
Join the Penn State Lehigh Valley
Alumni Society at Mixx Nightclub &
Sports Bar, 801 N. 15th St., Allentown,
for a dance benefitting childhood cancer
research. All proceeds will benefit THON
and The Four Diamonds Fund, crediting
Penn State Lehigh Valley. The dance will
Tickets cost $20 in advance; $25 at the
door, and include more than $50 worth
of dance lessons, food, bowling and more.
or email events@psulvalumni.org.