It has been a long time since we blogged but here we go with
our latest – the World Health Day Celebration on April 7,2018. The CFHC and Nelson Star have sponsored the
Passport to Wellness Health fair for the past 3 years but this year, with an
idea to focus on fitness and health we decided to “take it to the streets”.
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| Zumba-ing for 10,000 Steps |
About 10 years ago one of our CFHC members came back excited
about a walking program called 10,000 steps she found in Darlington, New
Zealand. The town had numerous signs with maps on them encouraging people to
walk 10,000 steps a day for health. The walks were of varying difficulty and
there was even a time posted to meet if you would like to meet other walkers.
Well it sometime takes the right time and the right place for things to happen,
but this turned out to be the year.
Led by the Chair Deb Zeeben, the health fair committee of
Marion Hunter, Cathy Foxcroft, Sarah Popoff and Madeleine Collins invited the
City of Nelson, represented by Ginger Lester and Joanna Markin, NDCC with Jodi
Voudsen, Vanessa Finnie from SD8 and Dawn Tomlin to meet with us to plan
something bigger and to involve more the community.
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| Kootenay Martial Arts Team Kicking for 10,000 Steps |
The City decided to take on the 10,000 steps and are creating
the signs and have paced out the first route. The NDCC came to the table with
ideas for the activities on that day for the centre and on their new signs in
the arena to add 10,000 to their laps, and IHA volunteered to purchase
pedometers for walkers to use available at the Library or through IHA and Cathy
Potkins.
Invitations were sent out for others to offer free activities
on that day
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| Wildflower |
after the walk and in Nelson fashion, Selkirk College sponsored
Zumba, LVR hosted Kidsport with Mini Hockey and Ringette and the Nelson
Pickleball club introduced the sport to newcomers to the game. We had Hot Bambu
with yoga, and the Nelson Scottish country dancers down at NDCC along with an
Indoor walk led by Cathy Potkin.
Loonie
Toonie day all day at the pool with childminding services included. The Nelson
Squash club came on board, as did Kootenay Martial Arts and Jungle Body.
At 10:00 am in the cold and rain, with snow looking imminent,
the ribbon was cut by Pat Dooley IHA, Naomi Ross SD8 and Deb Zeeben CFHC, and
led by the Nelson Air Cadets, 35 brave souls headed out the inaugural 10,000
step walk. Along with the walk and other
activities over 200 people were involved in the day.
We want to thank everyone that contributed to this event and
we hope that once the signs are in place, people will discover that walking
10,000 steps is good for your health and fun to do. We are hoping to have a route that includes a
Heritage tour walk, and the route mapped by Wildflower around the Uphill area.
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| Wildflower |
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| Wildflower Stepping Out in Their Neighbourhood |
Spring is HERE !! And now is the time to try something new
and get outside and get moving.
Signing off
Eric and Marion
Marj Haire lead us through a variety of movements and meditations supporting both our bodies and our minds... those of us lucky enough can join Marj at the Community Complex on Tuesday afternoon to further benefit from this method of yoga.
