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Healthy Kids reaches milestones
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September 21, 2010
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities director Dr. Jim Lidstone is on a mission to fight childhood obesity.
By providing healthy food and increasing physical activity, the
initiative hopes to battle the public health crisis that threatens the quality of area children’s lives.
Launched in January 2010 with a $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the initiative has taken root and is sprouting.
During the first six months Lidstone formed Live Healthy Baldwin, a coalition of city and county governmental agencies, organizations, businesses, faith-based organizations, public schools and educational institutions working together to improve local children’s health.
He established a 4-acre, 140-plot community vegetable gardens at the former Southside Elementary School site for neighborhood residents to plant, grow, harvest and share healthy foods.
Volunteers donated and planted 27 apple, plum and pear trees at the garden site that should begin bearing fruit this fall.
The coalition received a $100,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to build the first of three phases of Fishing Creek Trail, a walking and biking trail that when completed will connect Oconee River Greenway to Walter B. Williams Jr. Park.
The group also received a $2,000 grant it used to buy gardening tools, plants and irrigation equipment at discounted prices at Lowe’s.
“We’re in a great place with the initiative,” said Lidstone, Georgia College’s director of the Center for Health and Social Issues. “Community members see the importance of this project and are working together to make things happen.”
During the next 18 months, Live Healthy Baldwin plans to:
• Expand the community gardens to area schools and public housing areas;
• Provide health snacks to after-school programs including the YES Program, Boys & Girls Club of Baldwin County, High Achievers, Early College and Baldwin County Recreation Department;
• Apply for a $500,000 Safe Route to Schools grant to continue development of Fishing Creek Trail;
• Establish Baldwin County as Bicycle Friendly with the League of American Bicyclists through Bicycling Club of Milledgeville and
• Work with Milledgeville Farmers’ Market to accept SNAP and WIC.
Live Healthy Baldwin members
• Oconee River Authority
• Oconee River Greenway Foundation
• Oconee Regional Medical Center
• Milledgeville Community Garden
Association
• Bicycling Club of Milledgeville
• Baldwin County Parks & Recreation
• Baldwin County Schools
• Milledgeville/Baldwin County Economic
Development Authority
• Baldwin County Health Department
• City of Milledgeville
• Milledgeville MainStreet
• New Beginning Worship Center
• Life and Peace Kingdom Center
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