The Family Day and Children’s Health Fair with fun and information for all ages is next Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on The Green in downtown Wellsboro. It will kick off the weeklong 2024 Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival being held June 8-16. 

Organizing this special event are the Tioga County Partnership for Community Health, Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce, Wellsboro Foundation, Inc., and UPMC Wellsboro Office of Pediatrics.

Each youngster participating in Family Day will be given a free playground ball or a foam 8-inch football. 

Infants to 12-year-olds will be fitted with free bike helmets while supplies last. 

Families and individuals can visit 44 booths where there will be games to play for prizes and creative projects to do on-site and take home, such as planting seeds, making musical instruments, and sun visors, and others that will provide information for children’s health, safety and well-being, music programs and classes, wildfire prevention, water safety, summer programs for youth and adults, positive mental health, substance abuse and crime prevention, outdoor recreation opportunities, transportation, animal rescue information, 4-H, and much more.

Among the many free treasures at the booths will be T-shirts, diapers, baby supplies, crayons, coloring books, sunglasses, stickers, Frisbees, tooth brushes and floss, pens, pencils, sticky notes, bookmarks, healthy snacks for children, reusable bags, drawstring bags, stress balls, notepads, backpacks, hacky sacks, hair ties, tattoos, etc.

For more information about Laurel Festival events, stop in at the Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce office at 114 Main Street in Wellsboro, call 570-724-1926 or email info@wellsboropa.com.