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You've heard the talk about the North Main Area Improvement Plan and the expected new crosswalks and sidewalks. You'll recall that the City was awarded the funds to do this work through a competitive grant program, the Fit Community Grant Program. In order to get the physical and structural improvements, we also had to come up with a fitness program that accompanied this improvement. Well what better fitness program would accompany new sidewalks that take our North Main area residents over to our parks than a walking program! A survey was sent (see blog post dated August 23 - '08) and it showed that a walking program is the right direction (pun intended!) A draft of the program is in the works. It is called Striders 4 Life, structured out of the City Parks & Recreation Center in City Park, and will be broken into four phases: Walk for Self, Walk for Health, Walk for Light, & Walk for Life. This is intended to be a self-motivated health initiative - no structured classes to attend! - with a walking "passport" to log your achievements! Very cool!
Participant’s will be issued activity logs to track mileage walked. Phase maps will be kept at City Park to view where participants are according to their mileage. Through the Rowan County Health Department, participants will be able to have an initial health assessment completed detailing Body Mass Index, helpful nutritional guidelines, etc. Monthly education sessions will be established to focus on food/nutrition and alternate health and exercise activities.
Representatives from the City of Salisbury and the Fit Community Program met recently to chart progress towards the overall improvement plan, the fitness plan, and they even walked the proposed fitness path through the N. Main area, down Miller St. to the Parks and around to the Salisbury Greenspace off Mahaley. Overall, the grant coordinators were impressed with our efforts and our City representatives felt they learned a lot from our survey responses.
Thank you to all who took the time to participate.
As for the physical structural improvements, last we heard was that this was in engineering. One of the issues is the utility pole in the little landscape "island" in the middle of the Miller St./Jackson St. intersection. That will have to be moved as the street is narrowed to accommodate the newly planned sidewalk on the south side of Miller.
We'll keep you posted as we learn more!
You've heard the talk about the North Main Area Improvement Plan and the expected new crosswalks and sidewalks. You'll recall that the City was awarded the funds to do this work through a competitive grant program, the Fit Community Grant Program. In order to get the physical and structural improvements, we also had to come up with a fitness program that accompanied this improvement. Well what better fitness program would accompany new sidewalks that take our North Main area residents over to our parks than a walking program! A survey was sent (see blog post dated August 23 - '08) and it showed that a walking program is the right direction (pun intended!) A draft of the program is in the works. It is called Striders 4 Life, structured out of the City Parks & Recreation Center in City Park, and will be broken into four phases: Walk for Self, Walk for Health, Walk for Light, & Walk for Life. This is intended to be a self-motivated health initiative - no structured classes to attend! - with a walking "passport" to log your achievements! Very cool!
Participant’s will be issued activity logs to track mileage walked. Phase maps will be kept at City Park to view where participants are according to their mileage. Through the Rowan County Health Department, participants will be able to have an initial health assessment completed detailing Body Mass Index, helpful nutritional guidelines, etc. Monthly education sessions will be established to focus on food/nutrition and alternate health and exercise activities.
Representatives from the City of Salisbury and the Fit Community Program met recently to chart progress towards the overall improvement plan, the fitness plan, and they even walked the proposed fitness path through the N. Main area, down Miller St. to the Parks and around to the Salisbury Greenspace off Mahaley. Overall, the grant coordinators were impressed with our efforts and our City representatives felt they learned a lot from our survey responses.
Thank you to all who took the time to participate.
As for the physical structural improvements, last we heard was that this was in engineering. One of the issues is the utility pole in the little landscape "island" in the middle of the Miller St./Jackson St. intersection. That will have to be moved as the street is narrowed to accommodate the newly planned sidewalk on the south side of Miller.
We'll keep you posted as we learn more!
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