Mahaska Community 100 DAY WELLNESS CHALLENGE
Healthiest State Initiative
The Mahaska Wellness Coalition (MWC) invites the community to live healthy together. As part of LIVE HEALTHY IOWA, we challenge the community to meet the goal of 1000 Mahaska community members participating in the 100-day Wellness Challenge. One thousand for one hundred days!
To participate: Easy, Low-cost, Online
Build a team: 2-10 people on a team (if you are a single participant, no worries, MWC will assist in team building with you or put you in touch with a team in need of participants).
Cost: $20 with online registration including a free t-shirt and magazine subscription! Hy-Vee offers a discount of $5 by going to Hy-Vee.com or visiting their store for discount code.
Registration: open now. The challenge begins January 23rd. The MWC has a coordinator to track progress of Mahaska County teams. To ensure that we have access to the total number of participants in Mahaska County and total minutes of activity or pounds lost (aggregate level data only), please use the assigned group ID (LHIMAHASKA) when you register.
Community initiative:
A traveling trophy will be awarded to the community with the highest percent of participation. We would like to see Mahaska have bragging rights to this trophy! Anyone can join, youth teams are also possible.
Who is involved?:
Oskaloosa School District for one–over 1500 so far. Student numbers will not be included in our 1000 adult participants’ goal; however they will be counted for our community!
“Cablevey Weight Slayers have ten highly motivated team players,” states Bellina Bubaun. “We are ready for the challenge!”
“Teams are signing up daily. So far over 300 individuals and 1500 students are up to the challenge. Businesses such as Musco, MCRF, Mahaska Health Partnership, Cablevey, Oskaloosa Chamber, Clow, Bank Iowa, Town Square Dental, & Hair Designers have signed up. Even more including civic and church groups have expressed interest and should be signing up in the next few days,” says Deb Bruxvoort of Oskaloosa Chamber.
MWC has begun hosting monthly community walks, Step Along With Us, at Penn Central Mall the first Friday of each month. The next walk will be February 3rd at noon. Representatives of the MWC will be on hand to answer questions, offer resources and share successes at the walks so come and “step along with us!”
More information: Below is a link to the 2012 Live Healthy Iowa video clip that tells interesting facts about the state of Iowa’s health and about the Live Healthy Iowa Initiative and 100 day challenge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-z8ZWg_Iw. (Search YouTube for 2012 Live Health Iowa if the link does not work.)
Change your life! Go to www.livehealthyiowa.org to register or contact Deann DeGroot at the Chamber 641-672-2591 – ddegroot@oacdg.org or Dawn Collins at the YMCA 641-673-8411 – dawn.collins@mahaskaymca.org for more information.
