Warm Up to Winter
- Community Partners in Health
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You are invited to the Community Partners in Health 2008 Winter Warm-Up!
This FREE and FUN community-wide walking program for the Greater
Lansing Area is designed to improve your health and fitness. New this
year, we are presenting the first ever “Mayor’s Challenge” a walking
competition between local elected officials, sponsored by Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Michigan. Come walk with us and support your community’s leader!
More information at
www.cphlansing.com
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Mayors Step Up
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Mayors Virg Bernero (Lansing), Vic Loomis (E. Lansing), and Kalmin Smith
(Grand Ledge) issued a fitness challenge to area residents today.
Join all or part of the 10-week challenge which starts Saturday January 12
at Lansing Mall from 9am to 10am. (see details at the website above)
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Local Food Dialogue
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Join in the conversation as the 2008 "1st Saturday" Sustainable Community
Dialogue Series kicks off on Saturday January 12 from 10-noon at Urban
Options.If you drive, the Grove St. Parking Garage is kitty corner to
Urban Options. If you bike, there's a rack in back. If you
bus, U.O is just 2 blocks from the bus stop at 405 Grove St.
www.cata.org).
More at
www.re-news.net/dialogue.
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Clean Commute Chronicle
- Cathleen Edgerly, CATA
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This issue features several stories including a list of Vanpool, looking
for riders and an article featuring our own Janine Sinno!
Click
here for the PDF file.
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2nd Monday Ped/Bike Chat
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Join us for an informal chat on the 2nd Mondays, January 14th at 6pm to talk about
regional ped/bike-friendly communities. This month: El Azteco,
225 Ann St.
in E. Lansing.
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Healthy & Sustainable
Community Conversation Summaries
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Some of you participated in one or more of these community
conversations. In an effort to make this available to you,
I've posted a few key documents below. Also, don't miss the
Green Infrastructure
Planning Session on March 6th -- a key follow-up activity.
Summary of Four Dialogues (PDF)
Nov 28th Dialogue:
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Calendar
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Ongoing Activities & Resources
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Jan 12
Winter Warm Up
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Click here
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Jan 12
Sustainable Community Dialogue Series Begins
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Participate in a lively conversation from 10-noon -- usually on the 1st
Saturday of the month. Details here.
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Jan 12
The Culture of Dance
-Nancy Brandon
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Check out the "Culture of Dance" a local fundraiser
for Nancy's stem cell treatment. Click for a
poster or brochure
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Jan 14
Regional Ped/Bike-Friendly Conversation
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Join us for an informal chat on the 2nd Monday at 6pm to talk about
regional ped/bike-friendly communities. This month: El Azteco
in E. Lansing, 225 Ann St.
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Jan 15
The Main Street
Approach" to Revitalization
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Tuesday, January 15, 2007: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Main Street approach to business district
revitalization: proven techniques for revitalization: Learn from Bob Trezise, Director of the Lansing
Economic Development Corporation, about these techniques that have helped
revitalize business districts across the nation. Note new
meeting location: Sparrow St. Lawrence Campus, Fitzpatrick Room. (Directly
across the hall from the Clark Center.)
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Jan 19 Chinese Medicine Lecture
- Marge Johnson
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Date: Saturday, January 19, 2008 Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Place: MSU
Spartan Village Community Center, 1460 Middlevale, East Lansing, MI 48823
Speaker: Chindah
Kwan, MD., PhD LAc, Laiping Chinese Medicine Center P.C., Howell, MI
Topics:
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The Difference
between Oriental and Western Medical Science
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How to Prevent
Illness, and the Use of Medicine
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Demonstration
of Basic Blood Circulation Health Exercise Lecture of Health and Chinese
Medicine & Hands-on Diagnosis by Dr. Chindah Kwan
click for flier
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Jan 21 Martin Luther King Day Event
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Check out this special luncheon hosted by Lansing's MLK Commission.
Dr.
Marc Lamont Hill will present "Injustice Anywhere Remains a Threat to
Justice Everywhere"
Click here for more
info.
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Jan 21 Diabetic
Cooking Class
- Jennifer Lamphere
jlamphere@cristo-rey.org
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A diabetic cooking class coming up on January 21st from 1-3pm at Cristo
Rey Community Center. People can register by calling 372-4700.
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Jan 22 MI Recreation and Park Assoc. Annual
Conference
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Click for
PDF Flier
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Jan 31 Focus the Nation
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Read more about this national
"teach in" on Climate Change
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February 1 Land Use
Luncheon Series
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Jeff Padden, President, Public Policy Associates discusses “Successful
Strategies -- Revitalizing Michigan’s Central Cities”
click here
PDF Flier
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February 23 Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo
- Nancy Brandon
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Body, Mind, Spirit Wellness Expo:
Click for poster
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March 6
Green Infrastructure Planning
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Help identify the natural areas in our region that our most important to
us!
Don't miss this opportunity to begin to map our Green
Infrastructure in the tri-county area! The activity will happen on
March 6th from 5:30 - 8:30 pm at the
Hannah Community Center at 819 Abbot Rd. in East Lansing. More details
coming soon. Read more
about Green Infrastructure
here.
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March 7 Land Use
Luncheon Series
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Eric Schertzing, Ingham County Treasurer explores “The Ingham County Land
Bank—A Tool for Re-building Cities”
click here
PDF Flier
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Mar 19 CADL Sustainable Living Exhibition
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Capital Area District Library has chosen Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore,
as its countywide read for 2008. Discussions of the book will be
taking place in all14 branches and will be featured in area bookstores.
As a culminating event, a panel of three presenters have been invited to
discuss topics ranging from overview of global warming (Steve Curwood,
author and host of the NPR program Living on Earth); to an idea of what a
community can do ( David Konkle, Energy Coordinator for the City of Ann
Arbor); to a very personal account of living sustainably (author Judith
Levine, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping).
More here
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April 4 Land Use Luncheon Series
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Dr. John Biernbaum, MSU Professor of Plant and Soil
Science talks about “The Return to Locally Grown, Healthy Food”
click here
PDF Flier
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May 29-30 Save the Dates
-Paul Hamilton
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Save the dates for the 4th
Designing Healthy Livable
Communities Conference
to be held on May 29 & 30. Paul says we'll have some of the
best speaker in the country on the topics of
Public Participation/Consensus Building/Charettes and
Transit Ready Development.
More to come...
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Coalition Member Update
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