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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; The city&#8217;s Health Department will hold its Mondays at Market on Public Square starting July 8.</p><p>It&#8217;s the third year for the event and features vendors with a wide variety of offerings from healthy lifestyle to old-fashioned, down-home good food. It will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays for eight weeks and also have entertainment.</p><p>Mondays at the Market aims to increase access to healthy foods and promote healthy lifestyles through the use of local farmers markets. Additionally, the Commission on Economic Opportunity will present weekly cooking demonstrations and distribute recipes to market goers.</p><p>More than 40 health vendors will be on hand with literature, health screenings, testing and demonstrations. This will be the largest number of vendors in the history of Mondays at the Market. Food vendors from the Farmers Market held Thursdays also will be on the Square.</p><p>The weekly entertainment schedule features:</p><p>July 8, Kid&#8217;s Day: Live radio broadcast with Stan Phillips from Magic 93, Magician Pat Ward, face painting, The YMCA&#8217;s Imagination Playground, Osterhout Libraries story time, appearance of Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Kaelyn Traver, Tux from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Binghamton Zoomobile, strolling music by Ray Ramos, games and prizes.</p><p>July 15, Summer Safety Day: Chris Shrive from Flatland Ruckus presented by The Luzerne County Tourism Promotion Agency, bike helmet giveaway, the Safety Trailer from the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department, boating demonstration by Aaron Lupachinni, conservation officer from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and a beach ball giveaway.</p><p>July 22, International Day: Entertainment, foods, music and cultures of the world, the Gander 400 pace car, musicians Kathy Wang and Gregory Dolhy,</p><p>July 29, Pet Day: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders mascot Champ, P.T. Reptiles with Peter Rushton, pet photos with the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club and the song stylings of Leigh Joel Fierman</p><p>Aug. 5, Health Screening Day: John Stevens of Double Shot, WALN TV Digital Channel 137&#8217;s Happy Jack Burns with broadcast assistants Layla and Liana presented by Luzerne County Tourist Promotion Agency, cornhole tournament and health screenings.</p><p>Aug 12, Exercise Fitness Day: Healthy eating, meet the morning team from WBRE Eyewitness News streaming a live broadcast on PA Homepage, Odyssey Fitness trainers, health tips, the pace car from the ABC Supply 500 and music by Dynamic Duo R&amp;R.</p><p>Aug. 19, Back to School Day: Free drawstring bags and book covers, Osterhout Library story time, Tux from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Health Immunization Department Bear.</p><style>
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Mondays at the Market to start July 8 in Wilkes-Barre