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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
Students in the
PLOT (Promise Leaders of Tomorrow) youth group ran several sessions of
the
HEAT (Healthy Eating Active Time) Club at
Community Development Recreation at
72 Bank Street as part of their volunteer efforts. Sixth-grade students
Keegan Murphy and Katie Judge from
Morton Middle
School led half a dozen younger students from their school in an
active game of tag and some yoga exercises in the one-hour activity
program that has been running since January, 2009. The HEAT Club at CD-REC
is sponsored by the
Children In Balance program that is operating in the elementary
grades of the Fall River Schools and a number of community agencies.
After-school coordinator Ashley Rego
oversees the CD-REC program. The objective is to provide children with
an hour of heart-healthy activity, rather than screen time like
television or video games, after school. Each group session ends with a
healthy snack. For further
information about the Children In Balance project in Fall River, contact Project Manager
Marcia Picard at 508-324-2228.
For information about the PLOT group, contact
Massachusetts Promise Fellow
Brendan Sullivan at
315-832-0234. |
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.(Top row, left)
Keegan Murphy and Katie Judge give instructions to the younger children
before they race around the gym in an active game of tag. (Top row,
center and right) Devyn Souza chases Hope Ruth and almost tags Antonio
Zarrella as Joey Correia watches from behind. (Middle row, left) Alexia
Alves stretches to her toes in a yoga exercise. (Middle row, right)
Keegan and Katie race the children in pursuit. (Bottom row, center) CD-REC
after-school coordinator Ashley Rego passes out salsa to Saige Baptista,
Devyn Souza and Joey Correia after the activity. (Bottom row, right)
Katie and Keegan look over plans for the next session. |
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