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February 17, 2011 Leave a comment
WALK FOR LUNCH is a lunch hour walking program designed to encourage communities to walk 1, 2 or 3 miles, 2 days a week, along planned walking courses. Each walker can pre-order healthy lunches from a variety of local restaurants. $5 Lunch is optional.
For more information and to register, click here.
February 17, 2011 Leave a comment
The Oakhurst Community Garden Project invites the community to the Chicks in the City Symposium on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m at the Decatur Recreation Center.
Topics include: Breeds and Where to Buy,Nutrition and Feed 101, Chicken First Aid,Coop Construction and Predator Proofing, and Chickens for food.
Featuring: Andy G Schneider the “Chicken Whisperer”
NEW THIS YEAR– Silent Auction!
To register: $50 for Oakhurst Community Garden Project members and City of Decatur Residents; $65 for all others.
For more information: www.oakhurstgarden.org • 404-371-1920
February 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Clairemont Elementary has been selected by GDOT ‘s Safe Routes to School Resource Center to be the featured school for the second annual Georgia Walk to School Day event on March 2, 2011. Based on the success of last year’s event, this year the Resource Center has selected a school to showcase. This recognition will highlight Clairemont’s 6-year commitment to the SRTS program and their countless successes in transforming student commuting behavior. Though Clairemont was one of Georgia’s first SRTS programs, their process can be adopted by any school that is looking to increase their walking and biking population. The event will include City and State Dignitaries. Student participants will be recognized and the school will be featured in the Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia Walk to School Day press release.
February 15, 2011 Leave a comment
Have you signed up for Tour deCatur yet? I have and am quite excited- this is the first run/walk I have participated in since the 1980s! As you may guess, I will be walking the 3 miles, and will be happy to finish. As you may know, I am a yoga lady, so this is stepping out of my comfort zone. So step out of your “zone” and join us as we walk and run to support the Decatur Education Foundation. The run/walk is a qualifing event for the Grand Slam Fitness Challenge races.
For more information and to register for Tour deCatur, click here.
February 14, 2011 2 Comments
Join Decatur Active Living on Saturday, March 5th for the annual Touch A Truck event. This fun community event gives children of all ages a chance to touch, explore and see their favorite truck or equipment on wheels. The City of Decatur and DeKalb County will have fire trucks, dump trucks, tractors, police cars and motorcycles, bicycles and many other vehicles on display.
The event will be held in the Callaway Parking Lot, 120 West Trinity Place from 10am until 1pm. Just in case it rains, the rain date is April 30th. The event is free to the community.
Hope to see you at Touch A Truck!
February 14, 2011 Leave a comment
On February 2 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra visited Decatur Rec and played for the Magical Mornings program. The program aims to expand the minds of pre-school children through music and other performing arts. Hundreds of children and their parents enjoyed the sounds of the Symphony and enjoyed watching the dancers as well.
The next Magical Mornings programming will be on March 8 when Decatur Active Living presents Lee Bryan, puppeteer. For more information call 404-377-0494.
February 11, 2011 3 Comments
The First Lady Shaking Hands After Her Talk
On Tuesday, Greg White and I had the opportunity to be in the audience for Michelle Obama’s visit to Atlanta to talk about the Let’s Move program. The program’s focus is the prevention of childhood obesity.
From the Let’s Move website:
Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let’s Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active.
The City of Decatur has signed on to be a Let’s Move city. We are dedicated to keeping not only our youth healthy and active through a wide variety of programming, but also dedicated to keeping all ages healthy and active. Decatur Active Living enocurages you to become a part of Team Decatur, join us in May for Walk For Lunch, drop by the Decatur Rec gym to shoot some hoops, or simply take a walk around the block or to the store.
Now back to Michelle. She knows how to speak form the heart, and she is beautiful as well as gracious. We feel honored to have been in her presence!
Active Living Director Greg White Waits in Line
Yours Truly Holding the Coveted Ticket
Michelle Addresses the Audience
February 10, 2011 Leave a comment
From the New York Times:
In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking.
To read the rest of the article, click here.
Need more reasons to start walking? Join the group from Team Decatur and compete in the Team Decatur Fitness Challenge: run or walk three local races and the KP Corporate Run/Walk in September and hit a “Grand Slam”! In May, Decatur Active Living will present “Walk For Lunch”. What a great way to help your memory, get more fit and meet new friends.
February 9, 2011 Leave a comment
The City of Decatur has signed up to be a Let’s Move City. We are developing more programs to help fight childhood obesity. Children in Decatur are playing sports, walking and biking to school with the Safe Routes to School Program, and being more active in the community. Children at College Heights and at Decatur High School are learning to grow healthy food in their community gardens.
Michelle Obama talks about the Let’s Move program.
February 8, 2011 Leave a comment
Don Rigger, Decatur resident and Decatur High School Lacrosse coach was honored at the Georgia Lacrosse Foundation Banquet. Don was recognized as the Lacrosse Man of the Year. Don was instrumental in getting the program off the ground with his efforts working with Decatur Active Living in 2003. The growth of the sport has lead to many youth playing at Decatur Active Living and lacrosse has become an official sport at Decatur High School for boys and girls. if you want to see the fastest growing game in the South check out Decatur Active Living Lacrosse. Congratulations Don Rigger for introducing the sport in the Decatur community.
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