By DAYNA WORCHEL
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By DAYNA WORCHEL
dworchel@tylerpaper.com

Article source: http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20130522/NEWS08/305229998

Holy Innocents Primary School students Carla Coluccio, 7, Scarlett Waters, 10, and Rory Giugni, 11, get ready for Walk to School Day. Picture: Nic Gibson
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BETTER stretch those limbs and throw on your comfortable shoes as part of your routine to get ready for school as pavements are set to reverberate to tiny feet on walk to school day.

The State Government and road safety experts this morning officially launched the National Walk Safely to School Day which will be held on Friday.

“Walk Safely to School Day is now in its fourteenth year of encouraging children to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle by simply including a walk at the beginning and end of each day,” Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said this morning.

“NSW schools do an outstanding job encouraging a healthy lifestyle through the Board of Studies-developed Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus.

“Our schools, parents and communities are also heavily involved in the NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge, which focuses on the importance of daily physical activity.

“As part of the Premier’s Sporting Challenge students are encouraged to find at least 30 minutes in which to be physically active, every day, for 10 weeks.

“These two initiatives combine to deliver an important message about safety and wellbeing, with Walk Safely to School Day also encouraging a healthy diet and general road safety,” Mr Piccoli added.

Sports Minister Graham Annesley said his government is “very happy’’ to have assisted in funding the development of a new app which allows parents and students to track the distance they walk to and from school.

The app can be found by searching for Walk Safely to School Day in the App Store.

 

Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby said: “The great news this year is that the interactive app will allow children and schools to promote walking every day of the year.

“Reaping the great benefits of walking is all about sustainability,” Mr Scruby said.

Article source: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/nsw-act/walking-safely-to-school-can-be-a-valuable-lesson-in-healthy-living/story-fnii5s3x-1226648264012

Holy Innocents Primary School students Carla Coluccio, 7, Scarlett Waters, 10, and Rory Giugni, 11, get ready for Walk to School Day. Picture: Nic Gibson
Source: The Daily Telegraph

The Walk Safely to School App. Picture: Nic Gibson
Source: The Daily Telegraph

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BETTER stretch those limbs and throw on your comfortable shoes as part of your routine to get ready for school as pavements are set to reverberate to tiny feet on walk to school day.

The State Government and road safety experts this morning officially launched the National Walk Safely to School Day which will be held on Friday.

“Walk Safely to School Day is now in its fourteenth year of encouraging children to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle by simply including a walk at the beginning and end of each day,” Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said this morning.

“NSW schools do an outstanding job encouraging a healthy lifestyle through the Board of Studies-developed Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus.

“Our schools, parents and communities are also heavily involved in the NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge, which focuses on the importance of daily physical activity.

“As part of the Premier’s Sporting Challenge students are encouraged to find at least 30 minutes in which to be physically active, every day, for 10 weeks.

“These two initiatives combine to deliver an important message about safety and wellbeing, with Walk Safely to School Day also encouraging a healthy diet and general road safety,” Mr Piccoli added.

Sports Minister Graham Annesley said his government is “very happy’’ to have assisted in funding the development of a new app which allows parents and students to track the distance they walk to and from school.

The app can be found by searching for Walk Safely to School Day in the App Store.

 

Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby said: “The great news this year is that the interactive app will allow children and schools to promote walking every day of the year.

“Reaping the great benefits of walking is all about sustainability,” Mr Scruby said.

Article source: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/nsw-act/walking-safely-to-school-can-be-a-valuable-lesson-in-healthy-living/story-fnii5s3x-1226648264012

The Walmart Foundation announced its continued support of 4-H Healthy Living programs with a new $2 million donation to expand the Walmart 4-H Youth Voice: Youth Choice program in Delaware and 20 other states. This new gift will allow the Walmart 4-H Youth Voice: Youth Choice program to expand its reach from 15 to 21 states across the nation, reaching nearly 75,000 at-risk youth and their families with interactive education about nutrition and food security challenges. The Walmart foundation has been a strong supporter of 4-H Healthy Living programs for several years, having granted $4.3 million to 4-H since 2009.

In Delaware this effort will directly impact 3,000 youth who will receive six hours of the Up for the Challenge: Lifetime Fitness, Healthy Decisions curriculum. The curriculum will be delivered by Cooperative Extension staff and a cadre of teens who will be trained in the curriculum and will deliver it in after-school programs, community centers, 4-H clubs and other sites. This model is already well established in Delaware to support Health Rocks.

The program will be implemented at all Delaware 4-H after-school sites including the seven Delaware State Housing Authority sites, all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program sites and Dover AFB sites. These sites alone reach 2,000 youth or more. Indirectly the program is expected to reach an additional 17,000 youth and families.

Delaware is recruiting youth ages 13 and up to facilitate the program with EFNEP staff members. This provides an opportunity for youth leadership and enhanced communication skills. There are funds available to stipend youth in this effort. A youth training is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, June 15, at the University of Delaware’s Paradee Center in Dover.

For a copy of the registration form go to extension.udel.edu/kentcounty/im40/hla/.

 

 

Article source: http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/agencies-to-expand-healthy-living-program-with-grant-from-walmart-foundation/1003107

The Walmart Foundation announced its continued support of 4-H Healthy Living programs with a new $2 million donation to expand the Walmart 4-H Youth Voice: Youth Choice program in Delaware and 20 other states. This new gift will allow the Walmart 4-H Youth Voice: Youth Choice program to expand its reach from 15 to 21 states across the nation, reaching nearly 75,000 at-risk youth and their families with interactive education about nutrition and food security challenges. The Walmart foundation has been a strong supporter of 4-H Healthy Living programs for several years, having granted $4.3 million to 4-H since 2009.

In Delaware this effort will directly impact 3,000 youth who will receive six hours of the Up for the Challenge: Lifetime Fitness, Healthy Decisions curriculum. The curriculum will be delivered by Cooperative Extension staff and a cadre of teens who will be trained in the curriculum and will deliver it in after-school programs, community centers, 4-H clubs and other sites. This model is already well established in Delaware to support Health Rocks.

The program will be implemented at all Delaware 4-H after-school sites including the seven Delaware State Housing Authority sites, all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program sites and Dover AFB sites. These sites alone reach 2,000 youth or more. Indirectly the program is expected to reach an additional 17,000 youth and families.

Delaware is recruiting youth ages 13 and up to facilitate the program with EFNEP staff members. This provides an opportunity for youth leadership and enhanced communication skills. There are funds available to stipend youth in this effort. A youth training is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, June 15, at the University of Delaware’s Paradee Center in Dover.

For a copy of the registration form go to extension.udel.edu/kentcounty/im40/hla/.

 

 

Article source: http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/agencies-to-expand-healthy-living-program-with-grant-from-walmart-foundation/1003107

Holy Innocents Primary School students Carla Coluccio, 7, Scarlett Waters, 10, and Rory Giugni, 11, get ready for Walk to School Day. Picture: Nic Gibson
Source: The Daily Telegraph

The Walk Safely to School App. Picture: Nic Gibson
Source: The Daily Telegraph

Prev

 of 2

Next

BETTER stretch those limbs and throw on your comfortable shoes as part of your routine to get ready for school as pavements are set to reverberate to tiny feet on walk to school day.

The State Government and road safety experts this morning officially launched the National Walk Safely to School Day which will be held on Friday.

“Walk Safely to School Day is now in its fourteenth year of encouraging children to lead a healthier, more active lifestyle by simply including a walk at the beginning and end of each day,” Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said this morning.

“NSW schools do an outstanding job encouraging a healthy lifestyle through the Board of Studies-developed Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus.

“Our schools, parents and communities are also heavily involved in the NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge, which focuses on the importance of daily physical activity.

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“As part of the Premier’s Sporting Challenge students are encouraged to find at least 30 minutes in which to be physically active, every day, for 10 weeks.

“These two initiatives combine to deliver an important message about safety and wellbeing, with Walk Safely to School Day also encouraging a healthy diet and general road safety,” Mr Piccoli added.

Sports Minister Graham Annesley said his government is “very happy’’ to have assisted in funding the development of a new app which allows parents and students to track the distance they walk to and from school.

The app can be found by searching for Walk Safely to School Day in the App Store.

 

Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby said: “The great news this year is that the interactive app will allow children and schools to promote walking every day of the year.

“Reaping the great benefits of walking is all about sustainability,” Mr Scruby said.

Article source: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/walking-safely-to-school-can-be-a-valuable-lesson-in-healthy-living/story-fndo4gtr-1226648264012

LONGMONT — Nearly 80 first- and second-graders from Rocky Mountain Elementary School wrapped up a new healthy living program by planting herbs and vegetables at the YMCA farm Tuesday morning.

Salsa, Sabor y Salud is a Spanish-language program that teaches Latino students about nutrition, exercise and other healthy habits, said Lurbin Moore, who teaches the free series at the Ed Ruth Lehman YMCA.

The eight-part program has been offered through the YMCA for years, Moore said, but this spring she brought the series to four classes at Rocky Mountain Elementary.

“I grew up on a farm and I watched my kids at home get excited about planting and picking their own food,” Moore said. “I wanted the other kids, who may have

working parents or live somewhere that doesn’t allow them to have a home garden, to have that same opportunity.”

Cilantro, peppers, carrots and cucumbers are a few of the foods planted by students this week. The students planted seedlings in the classroom a few weeks ago and transported their plants to the farm where they could continue to grow.

Moore said she is hoping the students and their families will return to the garden to tend the vegetables.

Second-grader Leisi Mareli, 8, planted carrots in the garden and said she hopes to bring her family to pick them when they’re ready to eat.

Since the program started at her school this spring, Leisi said she has given up drinking soda at home because she learned that

it was unhealthy.

“I also like to eat a lot of vegetables,” she said.

Moore said she is hoping to expand the program to eight classes at Rocky Mountain Elementary next year.

Whitney Bryen can be reached at 303-684-5274 or wbryen@times-call.com.

Article source: http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_23294292/rocky-mountain-elementary-students-wrap-up-healthy-living

That word….?

EXPECTATION.

In the Hindu epic Bhagwad Geeta, Lord Krishna exhorts warrior prince Arjun to “do what he must do, without worrying about the fruit of his actions.”

In real life, this valuable piece of advice is so hard to follow, is it not?

We work hard in the office, expecting to be rewarded. We fall in love, and then expect our lover to constantly demonstrate and prove his or her love for us. We even love our children—supposedly the most unconditional kind of love—with the secret or sometimes obvious expectation that they will continue to be controlled by us.

The result of all this expectation is pain and unhappiness.

Because more often than not, people don’t live up to our expectations. It is never a given that you will receive as much as you give, but we continue to hope and crave for that return gift of love, understanding, appreciation. When they don’t come our way, we tend to become resentful, bitter and unpleasant. Unkind words are spoken, hurt caused, and there is unhappiness all around.

The world would be a much happier place if we just worked, gave and loved without expecting anything back. There is an Arabic saying, “Neki kar, dariya mein daal,” which translates to “Do good, and then toss it in the river” (in other words, forget about a kindness you have done). Don’t let a good deed become a burden on the person to whom you have been kind.

Here are some beautiful thoughts on expectation. I urge you to take a few minutes to soak them in.

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”
― Guy Finley

“I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company – why – it will be the worse for him – that’s all.”

“If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry – or rather, you must avoid it altogether.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 

Article source: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/one-word-that-keeps-us-from-being-happy.html

NEW YORK — Four peregrine falcon chicks roosting high above the Hudson River on the George Washington Bridge were pronounced healthy Tuesday and fitted with tracking bands to help biologists keep tabs on them.

Their mother’s squawks competed with the din of morning-rush bridge traffic as Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, gently lifted the fluffy chicks out of their nesting box and used pliers to fasten metal bands around their legs.

Nadareski peered into the birds’ ears, then spread their wings to check for lice.

“You can see how the fight feathers are just starting to emerge,” he said.

When fully fledged, the babies will be fierce hunters that can dive at speeds of 200 mph or more to snatch other birds in mid-flight.

The chicks’ parents are among some 20 peregrine falcon pairs that live in New York City, favoring bridges and tall buildings where they can easily spot their prey. And because scores of migratory bird species pass through New York, there is plenty.

“I’ve documented over 140 of birds that they feed on,” Nadareski said.

Peregrine falcons became endangered decades ago because of pesticides. Populations have recovered since the ban on DDT in the 1970s but scientists band them to keep track of them.

“If it gets into trouble we know exactly which nest to bring it back to,” Nadareski said as he banded one of the squirmy youngsters.

Because peregrine falcons don’t build nests but lay their eggs on a flat surface, officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started protecting the eggs several years ago by building nesting boxes on the George Washington and the other bridges the authority operates.

On Tuesday, several Port Authority workers joined Nadareski on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge near the New York side, 189 feet above the Hudson.

The wooden nesting box was attached to a girder about six feet below the road bed. Nadareski and two Port Authority bridge workers wore harnesses tethered to the bridge as they descended a ladder to the birds’ level.

The mother falcon, sleek and gray with a banded gray and white belly, squawked furiously as Nadareski crawled toward the box. All the humans wore hardhats for protection from her talons. The babies squawked at a higher pitch, then bleated as Nadareski grabbed them each by the legs.

There were three males and a female, all healthy though one male was on the runty side, Nadareski said. At about three weeks old the chicks were mature enough to band, because their legs won’t grow any more, but too young to fly away.

“We don’t need the lice spray today,” Nadareski said. “They’re clean.”

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  Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, puts a leg band on one of four peregrine falcons, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

• Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, examines one of four peregrine falcons he banded, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

• Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

• The mother of four baby peregrine falcons squawks on the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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  The mother of baby peregrine falcons, center, squawks as wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, approaches their nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

• The mother of four baby peregrine falcons takes off from the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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  Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, right, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, climbs down a ladder to a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, to band four baby peregrine falcons, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

• The mother of four baby peregrine falcons guards her nest and chicks at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder six feet below the bridge’s lower level. Their parents are among 20 pairs of peregrine falcons living in New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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