WKU’s Student Wellness Program, WellU, hosted its 22nd annual Healthy Days event on Wednesday at the Raymond B. Preston Health and Activities Center.
The Healthy Days event is a student wellness fair where organizations from the WKU and Bowling Green communities come together to promote health and wellness for students. The theme of the event this year was “Waves for Healthier Days.”
Attendees were given a punch card to take with them to each booth present. Participants received a free T-shirt after five punches and could enter a raffle of their choosing after 10 punches. Some of the raffle prizes included a snow cone maker, a Bluetooth speaker, free meal vouchers and gift cards.
Attendees could participate in various activities at each booth, including making mocktails, free vaccine immunizations and STD/STI testing, entering raffles to win prizes, and dance fitness.
Lydia Crisp, sophomore international affairs major, who gave out T-shirts to volunteers, said this was her first time volunteering at Healthy Days. Crisp became involved in the fair to gain volunteer hours for her sorority.
“I’m just excited about seeing people,” Crisp said.
Amber O’Callaghan, the Nutrition Coordinator at WKU and representative for the Hilltopper Nutrition booth, said mocktails were chosen for the event as an alternative option for alcoholic drinks. Students could make strawberry basil or blueberry mint mocktails, and could take recipe cards home to try later.
Sydney Schneider, graduate student and assistant for the Office of Student Activities, helped run the Student Activities booth where they wove plastic bags into mats to give to different areas in Bowling Green, such as homeless shelters and pet shelters.
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