A FREE festival dedicated to the concept of One Health – the interconnection of People, Place, Person, Planet, & Possibility.
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
11am- 4pm @ the Palmer Train Depot
Free & open to the public. Food available for purchase & local vendors will be selling their wares!
Live music and activities throughout the day. Some activities will require signing up ahead of time. Sign-ups will be available
here on the website after July 1st.
Join us this second year as we celebrate our community’s educators!
Picture yourself with an extra 20 years of life ahead. How would you embrace this
precious gift of time?
Join us as we hear from Ayse Birsel and Bruce Chernof, who embarked on a year-long
journey to explore how older individuals envision and design their extended lives. What
they discovered was profound: regardless of age, love, purpose, well-being, and friendship
remain essential pillars of a fulfilling life.
Together, they will impart simple, research-backed strategies for longer life with optimism,
not pessimism. Join us as they delve into their groundbreaking work and take questions
from the audience about their upcoming collaboration with the Mat-Su Council on Aging
and the Mat-Su Health Foundation in Mat-Su. This discussion is open to all who seek to
enrich their lives and communities.
The Mat-Su DEC Alliance is presenting our DEC MDT progress and next steps to the community. Several Core Team members and DEC Family advocates will be reflecting on DEC accomplishments and plans. We are extremely honored to have a participant speaking to her experience with the DEC program. She will be joined by the Law Enforcement Officer and DEC Family Advocate who works with her family. Tabitha Mattie (DEC Family Advocate with Alaska Youth & Family Network), Keith Barkwood (School Resource Officer with the Palmer Police Department) and this DEC participating mom will share a live example of the DEC Response team activity and subsequent result. A light dinner will be provided for refreshment sponsored by R.O.C.K. Mat-Su. We hope you will join us for this meaningful discussion and look forward to connecting with you.
This town hall meeting is being called to discuss the issue of the lack of housing for people experiencing homelessness here in the Matsu Valley. I am inviting you all to attend this meeting to participate in the conversation. There will be a panel with 4 community leaders with many years of experience working and living in the Matsu Valley for Q&A. Snacks will be provided.
Please reach out to Lori Syverson for additional info at lori@linksprc.org
The Moose Nugget Regatta is a one-day rowing event put on by the Anchorage Rowing Association and attended by about 100 athletes and a volunteers ranging in age from 11 to 75. Teams come from Seward, Soldotna, and Anchorage with athletes living all over Alaska. We occasionally have lower 48 and international crews attend. You saw “Boys in the Boat”, now see rowing live!
We compete on a 1,000 meter course laid out with buoys across the South shore of Wasilla lake. We launch a race every 10 -15 minutes from 9 or 10am to 4pm on Saturday. The public is invited to come cheer on the crews and learn more about the Alaska rowing community. For more information, visit www.anchoragerowing.com or email moosenugget@anchoragerowing.com.
Come down to the Palmer Depot and connect with and learn about social service organizations in the Palmer community.
For questions, contact Daybreak @ 907-746-6019 or Connect Palmer @ 907-746-9675
Divided Art ’24 still has room for artists who want to help us out. We provide the canvas (bifold door) and promote you and your work. All mediums are welcome and encouraged, wanna get weird? We support weird.
More info at matsuvalleyrebuild.com
Pieces are due back to the store by February 17 so your door is slowly folding closed!
MVR
Wed-Fri 10-5
Saturday 12-5
12151 East Palmer-Wasilla Highway
This health fair is a cooperative effort of Sunshine Community Health and The Trapper Creek Community Center.
Services Provided:
Affordable blood tests
Vision screenings
Health resources
Appointments are strongly recommended. Walk-ins will be worked into the open available slots. Appointments can be booked by visiting the website: alaskahealthfair.org or by calling: 907-278-0234
This health fair is a cooperative effort of Sunshine Community Health and The Trapper Creek Community Center.
Services Provided:
Affordable blood tests
Vision screenings
Health resources
Appointments are strongly recommended. Walk-ins will be worked into the open available slots. Appointments can be booked by visiting the website: alaskahealthfair.org or by calling: 907-278-0234
Our 2024 Mat-Su Reentry Simulation is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, February 28th at the Menard Center in Wasilla.
This is an interactive event that allows participants to experience the obstacles that individuals face when they are released from Correctional Institutions back into their community.
If you would like to participate in this event please e-mail barbara.mongar@valleycharities.org.
