It’s was a great day!

We learned and shared about mental health support and resources, farming, healing practices, child and family services, life planning, theater and the arts, adopting a rescue animal, community nursing, job opportunities, emergency preparedness, end-of-life services, volunteer opportunities, and more!

We participated in classes for all ages (Pound cardiac drumming, Zumba, Salsa and Cuban dancing, hands-only CPR, chair and partner yoga, and more), rowing on an erg machine, riding an ebike, cholesterol and blood pressure checks, interactive art, warm conversations, and lots of other healthy activities.

We danced to the music of the Panhandlers Steel Drum Band!

Lots of us won prizes! “Earn” tickets as you learn from community partners, join in classes, give blood, or sign up to get more involved. Attend the prize drawing to win!

We contributed to fundraisers, found healthy products and special treasures, and enjoyed lovely local food at the Fair and around the Common.

Scheduled Activities

Fun Intro Classes
in the Demo Tent

9:30 am – Uplift Hand Weight and Yoga Fusion class with Jill Gray of Remedy Yoga: Join in a hand weight and yoga fusion class.

10:00 am – Pound ™ Cardio Drumming with Angela Rose: Release your inner rock star with this exhilarating fitness class designed for all fitness levels that’s anything but routine.

10:30 am – Intro to Salsa Dancing with Maylena Chaviano and Fauve Dela Cruz of Upper Valley Salsa: Exploring the magic of this fun Latin dance form! Learning the first steps, connecting to the music, and ready to give it a try with the Panhandlers!

11:00 am – Chair Yoga with Kathryn Mills: Experiencing this gentle, yet effective approach to stretching and strengthening your body as you clear your mind.

11:30 am – Partner Yoga with Kathryn Mills: “Stretching” the yoga experience with a fun introduction to poses with a friend or partner.

12 noon – Hands-only CPR with Andy Miller, Captain, Lyme EMS: Learning the simple steps of this life-saving technique, and getting prepared to help save a life.

12:30 – Dance Party! Across the event, people moved to the sounds of the Panhandlers. The freeing joy of dancing!

12:45 pm Prize Drawings.

1:00 pm – Zumba with Rhonda Fenton: Ditching the workout, and joining the party with an intro for all fitness levels and Latin Rhythms, Country, Electro Pop and Pop music style.

1:30 pm – Rueda de Casino – Cuban Social Dance with Warren Kadoya, TucSon Casineros: A beginner class of this fun form of partner dancing, similar to line or square dancing, with a Latin flair.

A Successful Blood Drive
at the Lyme Congregational Church

9:00 am – 2:00 pm Blood Drive. Receive a $15 gift card! Click here to learn about maximizing your blood donation and help more patients, and to streamline your experience (and save time) with Rapid Pass.

Prizes

Please learn about the generous contributors, all of whom support our health & well-being!

Alicia J. Willette, DDS: Electric Tooth Brush

Caldwell Law: AVA Gallery Annual Membership

CCBA: One Month Membership

Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center: Dilly Beans, T-Shirt, Gift certificate

Chapman’s General: Cozy Vermont Sweatshirt

Dangles by Deb: Hand made Earrings (2 pairs)

Dartmouth Skiway: Season pass, private lesson

Farmway: Gift card (2)

Loch Lyme Lodge: Gift cards

Matt Brown Fine Art: Framed Wood Block Print

Northern Stage: Pair of Tickets

Red Clover Bikes: $50 Gift Certificates

Sweetland Farms: Gift card

Upper Valley Aquatic Center: Family Fun Pack! 2 Adult, 2 Child Day Passes

Upper Valley Casineros: Beginner Cuban Social Dance Class Pass (2)

Vera Carter Crafts: Knit Socks

Whaleback Ski Area: Day Passes

Participants from Across the Upper Valley

Supporting Health & Wellbeing in So Many Different Ways!

Alzheimer’s Association of MA/NH
Leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Upper Valley Walk to End Alzeimers is 10/5!

Berway Farm Creamery
Cream line milk from grass fed cows, coming with their milk truck, including magical chocolate and coffee milks.

Boy Scout Troop #273
Building and Supporting Community. THANKS for helping to set up this event!

Caldwell Law
Estate planning, elder law and advance care planning, including the dementia directive.

Captain Paige Bakes
Custom cupcakes, with cupcakes for sale.

CCBA – Carter Community Building Association
Nonprofit recreation and fitness organization, encouraging people of all ages and physical abilities to play, exercise, and compete.

Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center
Nonprofit, certified organic farm committed to developing regenerative agriculture systems for fruit, vegetable, and flower production and to offering educational programming that builds connections between our food, ecosystems, and community.

CommunityCare of Lyme
Connecting people and organizations to improve wellbeing, providing direct support when needed.
603-795-0603 is the Lyme Community Help Line, answered every day.
Lyme Food Pantry
CCL Jenks Fund
Aging in Our Community
Mental Health Team
Volunteer Opportunities

Converse Free Library – “Blisters for Books” Fundraiser
Blisters for Books supports the library’s children’s services. Students run laps around the Common, collecting pledges for each lap, promoting both literacy and fitness. Over the years, the event has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the library.

Craft Studies Studio & School
Sparking creativity and connection through craft, with an interactive community art project.

Martina Daley
doTERRA Essential Oil Wellness Advocate.

Dangles by Deb
Fun and unique earrings and stickers, too!

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Academic medical center providing primary and specialty care throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Promoting medication safety and adherence, with pillboxes, home monitoring logs, and medication information flyers and handouts.

Dartmouth Skiway
The heart and soul of skiing for Dartmouth College and the Upper Valley.

Emerald Stream Healing
Polarity and reflexology treatments for deep healing

EventSet
Planning and design for community events. THANKS for the wonderful green border for this event!

Rhonda Fenton Zumba
With a passion for fun fitness, sharing a Zumba demo at the fair.

Flourish Art & Yoga Studios
Provide a variety of classes to work for every body, with guidance and encouragement at every step, with a chair yoga demo.

Good Neighbor Health Clinic
Providing free medical and dental care to those in need and advocating for improved access to dental and health care. Home of the Upper Valley LGBTQIA2S+ Health Clinic.

Headrest
Provides effective programs and treatments to assist those affected by substance use disorder, experiencing a crisis, or in need of support.

HIV/HCV Resource Center
Provides direct services that empower and support people affected by HIV, Hepatitis C and substance use to live fully and with dignity.

HVC Cares – Dartmouth Health Heart and Vascular Center
Community Awareness, Research and Education Saves Lives Raising awareness about heart and vascular health, with Cardiovascular Mobile Van offering free screenings for high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes.

Juanita’s Mexican Food
Handmade tamales, empanadas, and quesadillas.

Kathryn Mills Yoga
A wide range of yoga offerings across the Upper Valley, with a Partner Yoga demo today.

Little Havana Hispanic Food
Representing culinary gifts of Spanish-speaking countries.

Loch Lyme Lodge, Inc.
Our focus is on the health aspects of having housing (and maybe the health aspects of relaxing on a pond 😊).

Lyme Emergency Management
Dedicated, trained and compassionate volunteer first responders, including firefighters, paramedics and EMTs, providing rapid emergency response and encouragement of prevention.
Lyme EMS (formerly FAST Squad)
Onsite with emergency response vehicles and equipment, information, youth first aid guidance, and a scheduled hands-only CPR class.
Lyme Fire Department
Onsite with information and Touch-a-Truck experience.

Lyme Historians
Providing information for a self-guided tour of the historic houses surrounding Lyme Common. Visit the museum across the street.

Lyme Parish Nurses, a program of Lyme Congregational Church Health Ministry
Support healthy minds, bodies, and spirits across the community, offering blood pressure checks and information about substance use challenges among older people.

Lyme Pinnacle Snowmobile Club
Maintains over 75 miles of trails in the Upper Valley open for winter sports – cross country skiing, hiking, dog sledding, and snowmobiling.

Margaret Pratt Community
Offering assisted living and memory care in Bradford, VT.

Sophie Mayo
Health Coach in training.

Muddy Girl Crafts
Adorable crochet items – jelly roll placemats, rugs, hats, and more!

NextGen America
Mobilizing the most diverse generation of voters

Northern Stage
A local professional theater company with a mission to change lives, one story at a time.

Northern New Hampshire Mobile Health Clinic
A service of North Country Health Consortium and Cottage Hospital.

Northern Woodlands
Advancing a culture of forest stewardship in the Northeast, with quarterly Northern Woodlands magazine celebrating northeastern forests and the people who care for them.

Orford-Fairlee Lions
Serving the community, giving hope, and impacting lives. THANK YOU for your support of the event!

Panhandlers Steel Drum Band
A 10-12 piece community steel pan drum band, performing shows across Vermont and NH for close to 20 years. Entertaining fair-goers 11am – 1pm.

Paphanh’s Thai Food
Delicious home-made Laotian and Thai food.

Remedy Yoga Therapeutics
Offering classes in a wide range of styles, with a Yoga-Weights Fusion demo at the fair.

SHARe
Welcoming and supporting asylum seekers and refugees in the Upper Valley.

Those Guys of Lyme
Service and social organization that meets the 1st Wednesday of every month at 6:30am at the Lyme Congregational Church for breakfast. Key volunteers and generous donors of the Welcome Tent for this event!

Twin States Network
Peer-based support and services for people living with HIV..

The Tyedyed Penguin
Hand dyed tyedye articles.

Upper Valley Aquatic Center
Swim and fitness center, with a demo of Pound cardiac drumming.

Upper Valley Casineros
Cuban social dance group with weekly classes and a beginner’s Rueda de Casino class at the Fair.

Upper Valley Humane Society
Envisioning a community in which all pets are loved, joining in the day with adoptable pets.

Upper Valley Rowing Foundation
Creating a community for rowing, offering a wide variety of opportunities to row on the Connecticut River, with erg rowing machines to try.

Upper Valley Salsa
Salsa dancing community with workshops and social dances, with an intro to Salsa demo at the Fair

Vera Carter Crafts
Hand-made knit items

Visiting Nurse and Hospice of VT & NH (VNH)
Provides in home support to patients through home health, hospice, long term care and maternal/child services.

Vital Communities
Works with people, organizations, and communities to create equitable solutions to challenges in the Upper Valley region.
Upper Valley eBike Lending Library
in collaboration with CommunityCare of Lyme and Loch Lyme Lodge

Waypoint Family Resource Center
Provides services to help families overcome challenges, reach their goals, and be their best.

West Central Behavioral Health,
The nonprofit community mental health care provider for the Upper Valley and Sullivan County, NH.

Window Dressers
Bringing community volunteers of all economic and social situations together to produce low-cost insulating window inserts. Join a local workshop in Norwich or Bradford.

WISE
Mobilizes the Upper Valley to end gender-based violence through survivor-centered advocacy, prevention, and education.

Thank you to all for participating this year!

The 2023 Lyme Health & Wellness Fair

a spectacular day of healthy activities, learning, and joy

THANK YOU to everyone involved!!

Please see the event webpage Learn more about the day and the generous Community Partners who helped make it happen. They shared expertise and ideas, opportunities to join in healthy programs and activities, and prize donations.

Photo Album and Video Snippets

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