The tenth Challenge event in the four-month 2012 Fall River Fitness Challenge took participants on a walk/run on March 17th led by Saint Anne's Neighborhood Association president Pamela Laliberte-Lebeau. The group left CD-REC headquarters on Bank Street and headed up Milliken Boulevard to the top of Kennedy Park. The group then walked all around the park and returned to CD-REC where they participated in a raffle drawing for prizes. Organized by the Diabetes Association, Inc. (DAI),  Community Development Recreation (CD-REC), the Fall River YMCA, General Fitness and Healthy City Fall River, and sponsored by Partners for a Healthier Community, the Challenge offers low cost opportunities for those who live, work or attend school in Greater Fall River to get fit, lose weight, have fun and win prizes. Click here for a video of the walk. Click here for photos of an indoor Challenge fitness event and here for photos of Giunta 5K race route Challenge event. Call CD-REC at 508-679-0922 for more information or go to www.FallRiverFitnessChallenge.com..

(Top row, left) Saint Anne's Neighborhood Association president Pamela Laliberte-Lebeau describes the route to Challenge personal fitness instructor Amy Jones. (Top row, center ad right) Sheri Bettencourt and Ana Andrade head out from the Veterans' Memorial Auditorium on Bank Street toward Milliken Boulevard. (Row two) The group heads up Milliken Boulevard and Washington Street to Kennedy Park. (Row three, left and center) Fitness leader Daryl Parrent leads Jennifer Gemuehlich, Melissa Chaunt, Brittany Carr and Stacy Primo down the hill to Bay Street and back up again. (Bottom row) CD-Rec staff member Annemarie Sharkey hands out raffle tickets to returning participants and draws two winning tickets good for prizes.