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FARMINGTON – Franklin Memorial Hospital will host a fall block party from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at the hospital, 111 Franklin Health Commons (U.S. Route 2).
The block party is a free, family-friendly event and will be held in the hospital’s Bass Room and on the hospital campus.
Festivities will include a children’s play area with face painting, lawn games, storybook reading, pumpkin decorating, as well as ambulance tours, health screenings and free flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines.
Representatives from several community agencies will be present including the Western Maine Play Museum, United Way, Western Maine Community Action, Community Concepts, Spruce Mountain Adult Education, and Healthy Community Coalition, among others.
“We will also have six medical and dental students from the University of New England onsite to help out and experience what rural medicine is like,” said Jolene Luce, director of Western Maine AHEC.
There will be free giveaways, raffle prizes and seasonal refreshments.
PHOTO: Submitted by Franklin Memorial Hospital
