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May 23

Dunwoody gears up to host first annual Family Fitness Day – MDJOnline.com

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Family fun and fitness are coming together to shape a brand-new Dunwoody event into a day people will look forward to every year.

Dunwoody is hosting the inaugural Family Fitness Day Saturday, June 10th at Pernoshal Park, 4575 North Shallowford Rd, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The day is meant to spotlight city parks, businesses and organizations by providing outdoor activities for all ages.

This will be a really good time to showcase all of our parks and bring everyone of all ages out in a free way they can enjoy, said Rachel Waldron, Recreation Program Supervisor for the parks department. Pernoshal park is about a year-old now, but many local residents still do not know it is there.

The event is modeled after the National Recreation and Park Associations annual day in June, which recommends that families get out to their local parks and get healthy.

The day will kick-off with a 1k Fun Run at 7:30 a.m. and a 5k Run & Walk at 8 a.m. Both of these events require pre-registration online.

Once the runs wrap-up, Pernoshal Park will be transformed with festival activities with a fitness twist. Activities will include free workout classes and clinics, games, giveaways and food trucks. In the kids corner, there will be kid-specific workout classes, nerf football, jump rope and bubbles.

Vendors on-site offering free classes and information will include Dunwoody-based businesses and organizations like UFC Gym and CycleBar Dunwoody; the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta; Emory Healthcare and the Dunwoody Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The activities will extend outside Pernoshal as well. A bocce tournament will be held at Georgetown Park, 4400 Dunwoody Park, just a short walk away. The Dunwoody Nature Center, 5343 Roberts Drive, will be hosting nature hikes throughout the afternoon as well.

This activates a lot of our park space, some which people might not know about, said Dunwoody Spokesman Bob Mullen

Waldron said the day is being setup to get people of all ages out and active, but is also being presented in a relaxed format that will allow visitors to drop in-and-out at any time.

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The plan is to make this an annual event and even expand it, Waldron said.

People know we have food trucks and Lemonade Days, and I would love for this to be another one that people look forward to every year, she said.

According to Mullen, during the citys parks master planning process, the city had a large group of residents asking for park spaces to be utilized more frequently.

A lot of the feedback we got was a cry for more activities in the parks and for more organized things there, Mullen said. From that feedback, Rachel and the parks department have really started to create a lot of recreational activities not just for this year, but beyond that.

Waldon has worked with Brookhaven for the past three years, but recently became the recreation program supervisor. In her new role, she said she has been looking at ways to fill in the gaps of city-hosted programming .

Some of the upcoming park-centric events in the works include a concert at Pernoshal Park in July, called Groovin on the Green; a movie in the park series at Brook Run Park; and a wine stroll down the trail connecting Brook Run and Pernoshal parks.

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