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Yeonsu-gu Holds the 'Love-sharing Vegetable Garden Cultural Festival'...
Yeonsu-gu Holds the 'Love-sharing Vegetable Garden Cultural Festival'
On October 12th, Yeonsu-gu held a cultural festival near the 'Love-sharing Vegetable Garden' located at 581-2, Yeonsu-dong. Sponsored by the Urban Agriculture Network, which is managing the vegetable gardens, the 'Lovesharing Vegetable Garden Cultural Festival' prepared many cultural programs to promote exchange among the owners of vegetable gardens and to promote the eco-friendly gardens. The festival received warm responses from the visitors who participated in such events as the handing out of EM and learning how to use it, making scarecrows, and pounding rice-cakes with a mallet. There were also experience booths displaying photos of the vegetable gardens, an acoustic guitar concert, and a screening of 'The Lorax,' a family movie with the theme of taking care of the environment.
Yeonsu-gu Inspects and Offers Guidance on Nutrition Content Labels on Foods
Preferred by Children
For four days in October, Yeonsu-gu inspected and offered guidance on the nutrition content labels of foods preferred by children. The inspection and guidance was carried out at food service businesses cooking and making these foods.
A group of four inspectors, including inspectors from the Customer Food Hygiene Inspection Agency, went to 86 stores handling brands of snack food, bread, ice cream, hamburgers, and pizza, with direct management stores and franchise stores numbering more than 100. The purpose of the inspection was to determine whether the stores are complying with nutrition labeling requirements by providing customers information on calories, sugar, protein, saturated fat, and sodium content. Inspections also looked at the background color and distinction of the nutrition content label itself, whether the labels had been placed where customers can easily see them, the number of foods without labels, and reports on new foods.
‘Providing information on the stadium and cleaning its surroundings’ Volunteer
Activities for the National Sports Festival with ‘Noblesse Oblige’
On October 22nd, Yeonsu-gu conducted volunteer activities for the National Sports Festival with ‘Noblesse Oblige’ at the gymnasium of Incheon Marine Science High School. This event was held to help ensure the success of the 94th National Sports Festival and to widely promote advanced volunteer activities in Yeonsu-gu, volunteer activities that are carried out with the spirit of ‘Noblesse Oblige’.
Many volunteers participated in the event, providing information on the stadium where the National Sports Festival is held and cleaning the area’s surroundings.
