Nearly thirty businesses and organizations focusing on the social, emotional, intellectual, vocational, financial and physical areas of well-being at the 2nd Annual Carroll County Health & Wellness Fair. Sponsored by the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, with funding from the CC Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, the event was held at the West Carroll Middle School in Mount Carroll on Saturday, February 11, 2012.
(Top photo) Jason and Claire Johns of Mount Carroll register for a door prize from the Mary Kay Cosmetics booth of Joanne Palmer. Besides door prizes, a lunch stand by the Good Samaritan Society of Mt. Carroll Alzheimer’s Memory Walk Committee was available, as well as homemade, healthy and delicious breads, pies, and noodles by the 1st Lutheran Ladies.
(Above Right) Jo Ann Hook, LMT,gives a chair massage to a visitor. Hook has plans to move her massage therapy business to downtown Mount Carroll soon. Visitors also learned about poison control, viewed the Mount Carroll Ambulance on display, and heard several presentations on eating healthy, how to stay young, a CPR demonstration, plus tons of information at the booths of the participating businesses and professionals.
For more information on next year’s event, or to be a participant, please call . (PA photos/Tom Kocal)
