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PLANT A SEED, READ
Hike
Yourself Healthy 2012
...or
walk...or skip...or run...
Beginning Memorial Day
2012
Our Goal
In honor of Cope Environmental
Center's 20th Anniversary, we challenge the community to
reach a whopping 20,000 miles! Can we do it?
Yes! With your help!
2012 Community Sponsors
Other 2012
sponsors include: Richmond Baking Company - Lorenz,
Williams, Clinton - Warm Glow Candle - Earlham College -
Meijer - West End Bank - Stagg Safety Equipment -
Perpetual Recycling - Synergistic Solutions
Interested in sponsorship for the 2012 Hike Yourself
Healthy program?
Email us
for information or
click here to make a general gift of support!
Log Your Activity
(Remember, don't start
logging your activity until Memorial Day!!
The Basics
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A summer
wellness/nature program to get you outdoors and
exercising!
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Open to all ages!
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The CEC Staff and
Board will hike 1,000 miles between Memorial Day
and Labor Day- we challenge our community (and
beyond) to hike a collaborative 20,000 miles!
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Walk, run, or hike
ANYWHERE OUTSIDE with incentives along the way!
Active participants (by July 15th) are invited
to a half-way point pool party celebration!
We also have weekly drawings for great prizes
and CEC gear! 2 of your miles must be
hiked at Cope Environmental Center to qualify
for certain prizes.
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Log your active
minutes and miles on this website or in the
logbook at one of CEC's trailheads. If
your club, group, business, or organization
would like your own logbook, please email Alison
at
a.clark@copeenvironmental.org.
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Part of a group?
Get them involved, too! We even have
fundraising ideas to help boost your efforts
this summer!
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Own a business?
Challenge your office to "hike themselves
healthy" this summer and offer a great incentive
to the winner (example: paid day off, lunch
coupons, etc.). Healthy employees = lower
healthcare costs!
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Is your business or
group ready for a little friendly competition?
Great! The group or business with the
highest average minutes at the end of the
program will win a great package which includes:
10 minute chair massages for your top ten
employees (they come to you!) and an office
party generously catered by
Chipotle!
How Are We Doing?
These progress charts are
updated weekly. If your group or business would
like to have an online meter, just let us know!
Community
0__________________________________________________20,000
Belden
0__________________________________________________1,200
CEC Staff &
Board
0__________________________________________________1,000
First Bank
Richmond
0__________________________________________________1,000
G101.3 Radio
0__________________________________________________1,000
Morrisson-Reeves Library
0__________________________________________________500
Ideas
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Introduce the idea of
evening after-dinner walks with the family.
What a great time to catch up with each other, enjoy
the outdoors and develop a healthy habit!
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A business in town will be
rewarding their employee participants with a pizza
party! Why not reward great behavior?!
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Go to the HELP Shelter and
walk a dog. They'll be thrilled to spend time
with you!
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Check out the Whitewater
Gorge Trail (jump on at N 3rd St.). While
you're there, check out the "new" Family Fitness
Works facility- much of the building was repurposed
from parts of the old hospital!
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Walk Uptown Richmond.
We are so fortunate to have a very walk-able
downtown area. New stores seem to be popping
up frequently, so take a stroll! You can end
your walk at the Clear Creek Co-op- they just moved
to 710 East Main St. Grab a healthy drink or
snack!
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Knock on a neighbor's door
and ask them to join you. Use your walk to get to
know one another better!
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Stories about your
experience? Have something to share with us?
Send
them to us! And photos too! We'd love to hear about it!
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Check out this site for
LOTS of info on walking, nutrition, motivation, etc:
http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html
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More ideas?
Send
them to us! We'll post them here...
Plant a Seed, Read!
Cope
Environmental Center is proud to partner with
Richmond Indiana's Third Grade Reading Academy and
bring the summertime program Plant a Seed, Read! into
the community. The
Third Grade Reading Academy is a
campaign for grade level reading in Richmond
students. Through the Plant a Seed, Read! program,
Cope Environmental Center organizes volunteers to
read grade level books to Third Grade Reading
Academy Students outside and then lead them in
environmentally-themed discussions and activities.
We hope to inspire a love of the outdoors and an
environmentally-conscious appreciation in the
students, as well as help to foster a love of
reading. To become a volunteer please
email
us! If you'd like to see more about the origins
and mission of the Third Grade Reading Academy
check out
this great video.
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