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Peoria Juneteenth Fest: Free health services & community fun
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The YANI Collective celebrates Juneteenth with a day full of festivities including the Ernestine Jackson Freedom Day parade, music, horses, runway modeling, and money, on June 14, and beyond.
Lexii Loushel, and Mary Moore of the YANI Collective stopped by WMBD This Morning to talk about it.
The theme of this year's Juneteenth festival is 'Peoria Black Wallstreet.' Loushel explained that when these specially marked 'YANI Bucks' get used at participating businesses, they will keep circulating throughout the community.
'It's not just a festival, it's going to extend beyond and teach our community how to continue to work together and make money,' she said.
The festival also includes a health and wellness fair, which includes free school physicals, and STD testing.
The Juneteenth festival is not all health and economy, there is ample fun in store as well, such as an alumni basketball game, and dodgeball, and there will be plenty of music which will help with the line dancing and the Rip the Runway modeling show. There will also be horseback riding, bouncy houses and plenty of food vendors on site.
The event also includes the third annual Miss Juneteenth Pageant, with new additions including Miss Teen Juneteenth, Mister Juneteenth, and Little Miss Juneteenth categories.
There are many more family fun activities all stuffed into one memorable day, June 14, at John Gwynn Park, 809 W. John H. Gwynn Jr Ave. in Peoria.
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