The Healthy City Fall River WALKS project held its fourth walk on May 10, 2007, at the Niagara-Maplewood Council on Aging on Stafford Road. Twenty-two senior walkers were joined by fifteen students from the SS. Peter & Paul School on Dover Street. The series of walks highlights some of the walking routes throughout the city that have been identified on the Healthy City web site by a task force on walking. “The seniors at the Niagara-Maplewood center have a lot to teach this community about the value of walking” commented Healthy City Coordinator David S. Weed, Psy.D. “Regular walking can prevent a wide variety of medical conditions that often rob older persons of a positive quality of life", he added. The project also encourages physicians and other medical providers to prescribe walking along with medications for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other conditions that can be reduced or eliminated with regular exercise. Click here to see the kick-off walk at the Fall River YMCA on May 7th. Click here to see the walk at HealthFirst Family Care Center. Click here to see the walk at Kennedy Park. For more information, contact Dr. Weed at 508-324-2411.
 

(Top row, left) Pat Petty selects a t-shirt while Juliette Rodrigues and Claire Bouchard look at the free pedometers. (Top row, center) Healthy City Coordinator Dr. Weed describes the maps on the web page that detail each of ten walking routes in the city. (Top row, right) Juliette Rodrigues, Irene Price and Del Mello head off on the walk through Maplewood Park. (Middle row, right) Irene Price and Del Mello pass Eli's barber shop on Brayton Avenue on their way up to Stafford Road. (Bottom row, left) Juliette, Del and Irene pass Seabra's Supermarket on Stafford Road. (Bottom row, center) Edna Soares, Mel Benoit, Del Mello and Irene Price in the front row join teacher Cathy Burt and her students from SS Peter and Paul school which sponsors a walking group after school. (Bottom row, right) Peg Marchand of the HealthFirst Family Care Center and Edna Soares pass Dave of Jack of All Associates on his ladder doing work on a storefront on Stafford Road. Sponsors of the walks included the Community Foundation of SE MA, Diabetes Association, the Fall River YMCA, General Fitness, HealthFirst Family Care Center, Pereira's Medical Uniform Depot, Southcoast Hospitals and St. Anne’s Hospital.