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Kick-off at Courthouse Square
Wednesday May 23, 2007

kick off crowd

On May 23, 2007 a crowd gathered at Courthouse Square to kick-off Walk!Downtown Dayton, Wellness Wednesdays and Move It! For Your Health.

Representing Walk!Downtown Dayton, the Center for Healthy Communities, Downtown Dayton Partnership, Healthy Dayton and FiveRivers MetroParks handed out goodie bags for the first 100 arrivals, and all were entered into door prize drawings.

Wellness Wednesdays banner
Prior to the kick-off, at 11:30am, Wellness Wednesdays began inside the Court House with free blood pressure checks. Sara Huffman, MPH, Premier Community Health, presented "Getting Started on a Walking Program".
The Wellness Wednesday series is sponsored by Healthy Dayton and Premier Community Health and will continue on the 4th Wednesday of each summer month.

At noon Natasha Williams of Channel 7 welcomed everyone to the official Kick-off.

The Move It! and the "Battle of the Business Bulge" programs, sponsored by McGohan Brabender and Channel 7, gave away free pedometers and raffled a bike by K&G Bike Center.
drawing prize bike

County Commissioner Deb Lieberman and Pam Reichal, Executive Director of Premier Community Health, led groups on 2 of the 8 routes available on the Walk!Downtown website.

Meditative Walk group
Tartan Walk group

There will be led walks each Wednesday at noon during the summer months (excluding July 4th). Come to the square and look for the sign.
Center for Healthy Communities
Healthy Dayton
Downtown Dayton Partnership
Montgomery County
5-Rivers MetroParks
WHIO-TV 7
MVRPC

Click here to see all about last year June 28, 2006 Kick-Off

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