Healing at Peace Park — a free, outdoor event offering group fitness classes, health screenings by the Christian County Health Department, other services and giveaways — will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Peace Park is on East Ninth Street at the railroad tracks.
The event organizer is Hopkinsville native Sherria Hester, who owns the special events company The Surreal Experience. A co-sponsor of Healing at Peace Park is the Nashville-based nonprofit Serving Souls.
Hester said her goal is to “promote the importance of self-care, physically and mentally, and to showcase the resources available to aid in self-care especially during a challenging past 12 months.”
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
