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Getting Engaged

Unfamiliar faces sit around a table in Carlton County, Minnesota.  The faces belong to city planners, representatives from local reservations and tribes, and the county commissioner.  These residents of Carlton County, one of the seven counties in Northeast Minnesota's Arrowhead region, are taking part in one of several regional engagement meetings designed to bring a variety of people to the table to talk about active living. 

Healthy Communities Summit:
A First for Somerville, a First for Massachusetts

The Music City Moves! Community Partnership originally set out to conduct five or six community needs assessments of neighborhoods in and around Nashville, Tenn.  The assessments helped the partnership determine local needs to support physical activity.

The reason to start a worksite wellness program is simple, according to Julie Jackman.  "Where do you spend most of your day?" she asks.  "At work, of course."

The mountains of North Carolina provide perfect weather for growing beets.  So perfect, in fact, that beets were the featured food at Black Mountain Elementary School's recent garden tasting.  The school garden and a nearby community garden are centerpieces of the Eat Smart Black Mountain Fit Community project.

We have a very exciting announcement to make about a leader within the Active Living by Design family. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced this week that one of our project directors, Majora Carter of Sustainable South Bronx, has received one of its 2005 MacArthur Fellowships.

It was a beautiful day for a bike ride! With orange shirts lining the roads, bicyclists toured Isanti County on Saturday, August 13, 2005.

The opening of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in July 2005 was an exciting time for bicyclists and pedestrians in the Charleston, SC region; more than 150,000 walkers, runners, cyclists and those in wheelchairs attended the opening festivities on the bridge in the three days before cars were allowed to cross over the Cooper River.

After Broadway: A Community on the Move's community partnership initiated a successful Walking School Bus pilot at Mound Elementary in 2004, Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell became aware of this innovative program from the Cleveland Departments of Public Health and Public Safety (partners on the Broadway: A Community on the Move partnership).