The Monadnock Rotary Club’s 11th annual Monadnock Wellness Festival will be held Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Peterborough Community Center.
The Monadnock Wellness Festival is a unique event promoting health and fitness via health and wellness screenings, educational programming, fitness activity demonstrations and healthy food for people of all ages..
There is no admission charge for the festival, but a donation is requested to sample the soups during the popular Soupfest. All proceeds from the festival are donated to local not-for-profit health related organizations and food banks.
Last year’s highly successful event attracted over 50 sponsors and exhibitors and over 700 attendees.
Platinum sponsors of this year’s festival are Monadnock Community Hospital and the Bond Wellness Center. Gold sponsors include the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript and the Monadnock Radio Group. Silver sponsors include Northeast Delta Dental, Lake Sunapee Bank, Timeframe American Promotions and Silver Direct.
Preceding the festival is the ConVal Walk for Wellness, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Peterborough Community Center.
The approximately 5KS walk/run kicks off at 8 a.m. at the Community Center.
During the final hour of the festival, noted local birdwatcher Tom Warren will conduct a bird walk at MacDowell Reservoir, leaving from the Community Center at 2 p.m.