Saturday, April 27 was very busy at the Community Center in downtown Riverbank, with not one, not two, but three separate events happening there throughout the day.

Beginning at 8 a.m., volunteers working with the Love Riverbank day of community service met at the gazebo on the south side of the park there, off of Stanislaus Street. There, they signed in, received an event T-shirt and specific information about their assignments.

The Love Riverbank work was done at locations throughout town, with many different kinds of improvement work performed, from planting trees in some of the parks to cleanup along the river, and many others. The effort was designed to wrap up about noon, just in time for the volunteers to move on to other activities in town.

While the projects were going on, a lot of other work was happening in the rest of the park, setting up and getting prepared for the fun activities of the Founders Day Carnival, scheduled for noon to 5 p.m.

The third edition of the carnival, having started as part of Riverbank’s Centennial Celebration back in 2022, included a number of booths and game activities.

The booths stretched up and down the edges of three sides of the park, as well as on both sides of Santa Fe Street, from the Community Center itself east to Seventh Street.

Bounce houses were set up along the grass on Stanislaus Street. And the playground next to the swimming pool was packed with youngsters, as well.

Families flocked to the park to enjoy all the activities that were featured as part of the Founders Day event, the spring sunshine providing a perfect backdrop.

In the midst of all this, the City of Riverbank hosted a Community Health Faire in the Community Center itself. The Faire offered health screenings, including blood pressure and glucose screenings as well as other resources and health care-related information.

The Health Faire ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.