Promotional YouTube interview announcing Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Desert’s inaugural Walk and Wellness Festival in Old Town La Quinta on Saturday, October 18. The event runs roughly 8:00 AM–1:00 PM with the walk beginning at 9:00 AM, and includes a walk to La Quinta Community Park, vendor booths, a kids area (arts & crafts, free books), wellness demonstrations (Tai Chi, Pilates, fitness demos) and community health talks. Bella Hernandez, a staff member and volunteer, describes her two-year experience as a big sister and the personal benefits of mentoring. The piece encourages RSVP or on-site registration to support mental health and the mentoring program.
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Saturday, October 18 (year not restated in transcript).
Starts at 8:00 AM and runs until 1:00 PM (as stated).
The walk is said to begin at 9:00 AM.
Starts in Old Town La Quinta and goes to La Quinta Community Park.
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If you're looking for something to do this weekend to get you out and enjoy the wonderful weather we have, boy, do we have an opportunity for you to participate in Big Brothers Big Sisters inaugural Walk and Wellness Festival which is taking place in Old Town La Quinta starting at 8 o' clock until 1 o' clock on Saturday, October 18th. We want to gather as many people as possible to walk to support this and mental health as well as help our program grow and serve more kids.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is a one to one mentoring program for Coachella Valley kids that's offered free of charge to to families who are looking for a positive role model to spend time with their child, to mentor them and to help them succeed and reach their full potential. You can still RSVP on our website today or you can just show up on Saturday morning and register at the event. We are happy to have more and more people come out to support this event. Besides the walk, we have a variety of vendors. We also have a kids area where we're going to have arts and crafts, paint and read with me the children's literacy, free books to kids as well. So we encourage everybody to come out. And joining me today is Nandez, who's one of our staff members here at Big Brothers Big Sisters, but she is also a big sister and she's been a big sister for two years. Bella, how do these kind of events impact the program, your involvement as a volunteer and support your little sister?
Yeah, of course. So, you know, being a big sister here at Big Brothers Big Sisters for two years now, it has been very fulfilling, very enriching. And with these types of events and, you know, activities that are being put on throughout the Coachella, Coachella Valley, especially, you know, being hosted by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the desert, it gives that opportunity for us, you know, for me to take her out and have that fun one on one time together which this mentoring program provides.
And you know, her and I, we always just enjoy it and you know, get to, you know, not only interact with different people. And my little just always enjoys out and having a fun time together.
We hear from a lot of our families, our parents, that they want their kids to get out, away from gaming devices and video.
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And enjoy the community, enjoy the wonderful nature that we have here. So our walk and Wellness festival is that opportunity to have a fun, fun time at the event. The walk is going to go from Old Town over to La Quinta Community Park. Going to have a variety of activities that you can do at the park, from basketball toss to rope and hula hoop again to get that heart going and work on your wellness and.
Mental well being. And then after the walk, we have a variety of demonstrations from exercise experts, from Tai Chi, Pilates, Ching. And we have a health and wellness expert that's going to talk about healthy lifestyles and living. So those are all participating in our event.
And we encourage you if you can't come out early to walk, come over to Old Town and at least visit our vendors and participate exercise demonstrations we have maybe you've always wanted to learn how it went.
Or just get some simple exercises that you can do at home as an opportunity for you to learn that.
So we encourage you again.
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