2015 2015 Walking in Our Community Series Winter Warm-Up Events PB invites you to WWU Kickoff/Choosing Health! Rally January 24th | Saturday | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Everyone is invited to the WWU Kickoff/Choosing Health! Rally festivities at the , Macy’s Wing, 5330 W. Saginaw Hwy., Lansing. Kids games, healthy living screenings, community resource Come meet, walk and talk with local displays for Choosing Health!, cooking demonstration and the return of the Blues Community Challenge. Meet the physicians while learning about all the Healthy Lifestyle Champions we will follow on their WWU great benefits of being physically active. health and fitness journeys. Set your personal fitness goals. 2015 WWU Partner Events Calendar of Monthly Events Winter Warm-Up January 25th – March 21st January 31st | Saturday | 1:00-2:00 pm featuring the NEW this year — an expanded calendar of exciting healthy lifestyle opportunities! All events are FREE and OPEN TO Westside YMCA at 3700 Old Lansing Rd., Lansing Charter Twp., in partnership with the Winter Warm-Up Series ALL TRI-COUNTY AREA RESIDENTS. Explore the options Blues Community Challenge on the Community Partners in Health website, www. February 21st | Saturday | 10:00-11:00 am Sign-up instructions inside cphlansing.com. Our objective is to provide tools and Lansing Mall, Macy’s Wing at 5330 W. Saginaw Hwy., opportunities that will empower you to reach your health Lansing, in partnership with the Winter Warm-Up Series and fitness goals. March 22nd | Sunday | 1:00 pm When: January 24 – March 22, 2015 There are a wide array of possibilities, for example: Hawk Island Park at 1601 E. Cavanaugh Rd., Lansing, hh Hula Hoop Dancing in partnership with the Winter Warm-Up Celebration What: FREE 8-week program for all h h Beginner’s Belly Dancing th Mid- residents designed to hh Tai Chi Demonstration April 18 | Saturday | 10:00-11:00 am improve your health and fitness. hh Let’s Walk and Talk with a Doctor Valhallah Park at 4000 Keller Rd., Holt hh Good Form Walking Clinic May 2nd | Saturday | 2:00-3:00 pm hhEncourages people to increase physical hh Rock Wall Climbing Fenner Nature Center at 202 E. Mount Hope Ave., Lansing, activity. hh Health Apps for Smart Phones and Tablets in partnership with the Choosing Health! Spring Rally hhConnects people to resources hh Tobacco & You: Guide to Healthy Living th and community events that hh Diabetes Support Group June 6 | Saturday | 10:00-11:00 am promote healthy lifestyles. hh Sledding Brenke Fish Ladder/ Lansing River at E. hh Open Basketball Ave., Lansing, in partnership with NorthWest Initiative hhInspires people to get moving with the hh Swimming July 11th | Saturday | 9:00-10:00 am popular Blues Community Challenge! hh and more! CIS Trail/Clinton County Courthouse at 100 E. State St., Where: At the Lansing Mall or locations throughout the St. Johns, in partnership with the City of St. Johns WWU Celebration/WIOC Kickoff Tri-County area. Please note that events will be th March 22nd | Sunday | 1:00 pm August 18 | Tuesday | 7:00-8:00 pm offered throughout the week. Benjamin Davis Park/ South Lansing Pathway Hawk Island Park, 1601 E. Cavanaugh, Lansing Weekly at 5614 Pleasant Grove Rd., Lansing, in partnership with the updates: Lauren Evans, WILX-10, Fridays at 6:00 pm 5K (3.1 miles) FUN RUN/WALK. You can walk/run for all or South Lansing Community Development Association

part of the distance. Hear from a local physician on the th benefits of being physically active. Enjoy the music and September 26 | Saturday | 10:00-11:00 am refreshments. AL!VE at 800 Lawrence, Charlotte, in partnership with the Family Health & Fitness Day For a complete listing of Winter Warm-Up Blues Community Challenge total mileage, community awards, the Traveling Golden Trophy and the 4th Annual Let’s Walk & Talk with a Doctor and the events, visit www.cphlansing.com. printing of this brochure are funded by Healthy Lifestyle Awards will all be presented! the MI Health & Wellness 4 x 4 Plan grant. Questions? Contact: Alicia Armstrong Playmakers Fitness Foundation 517-282-5035 or [email protected] Blues Community Challenge he Blues Community Challenge is an To register for the 2015 Blues Community Challenge: opportunity for the Mid-Michigan Community Partners in Health Coalition Members community to get more active and engage 1. Visit www.cphlansing.com. T American Cancer Society in healthy lifestyles. Led by nine municipalities 2. Click on the link for the Blues Community Challenge. American Heart Association and supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of You will be directed to an activity logging website. Barry-Eaton District Health Department Michigan, this Challenge is open to all Tri- 3. Create your personal profile, and start logging your Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network County area residents. The Blues Community exercise. Challenge is for all participants, working Capital Area District Libraries together, to log 250,000 miles of walking, Log back in regularly to report your activity and help us Capital Area Health Alliance reach our goal of 250,000 miles! City of Lansing jogging, and any other physical activity. City of St. Johns Conquest Health & Fitness Foundation We welcome participants of any age Questions? Contact your Municipality Coordinator. Delta Township Parks and Recreation and ability, as long as they are willing Delhi Township Parks and Recreation to increase their physical activity for East Lansing Parks, Recreation and Arts the 8-week Challenge. Eaton County Parks Municipality Coordinators Hayes Green Beach Memorial Hospital All kinds of physical activity (exercise) can be Charlotte Patrick Sustrich, 517-543-1050 x5860 Ingham County Health Department [email protected] Ingham County Parks counted, as long as it is above and beyond the Lansing Community College normal activity that you engage in for daily Delhi Twp Tricia VanderPloeg, 517-694-2137 Lansing Mall living. Examples include: [email protected] McLaren Greater Lansing Meridian Township Parks and Recreation hhTime spent playing in a basketball Delta Twp Barb Kellogg, 517-323-8555 Michigan State University Extension [email protected] Michigan and Greenways Alliance league or at practice Mid-Michigan District Health Department hhTime spent deliberately taking East Lansing Kathleen Miller, 517-333-2580 x6963 MSU Health4U Program the stairs instead of an elevator [email protected] Playmakers Fitness Foundation hhTime spent taking a jog/walk St. Joseph Tabernacle Church Grand Ledge Amee King, 517-627-2149 Sparrow Health System when you would otherwise not WILX-10 [email protected] YMCA of Lansing Lansing Kalea Sanford, 517-483-4291 [email protected]

Facilitated by the Capital Area Health Alliance Lansing Twp Kathy Rodgers, 517-485-2272 and incorporating Michigan’s 4 x 4 Plan [email protected] We have teamed up with Choosing Health! and St. Johns Bill Schafer, 989-224-8944 x227 the Michigan Health & Wellness 4 x 4 Plan. Through [email protected] the 4 x 4 Plan, the Choosing Health! movement is working to increase access to healthy food options Williamston Debbie Richards, 517-896-2800 and access to places where people can be physically [email protected] active in safe and enjoyable ways.