Rivervine
Apartments are now smoke-free since June 1! This is great thanks
to Mayberry Realty, located in St. James, which owns Rivervine Apartments, a 16
unit apartment complex in the city of Jackson. The smoke-free policy includes
prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes throughout the entire
apartment complex and discourages tenants from smoking near entrances. The Des
Moines Valley Public Health TFC staff assisted Mayberry Realty in the policy
development process to support this smoke-free policy. Kudos to Rivervine for
being one of the now many apartment complexes in Jackson and Jackson County to
pass a smoke-free policy.
Below is a letter from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD)/Minnesota State Academy for the Blind (MSAB) sent Rice County Public Health. The schools have participated in MSAD Active Classroom: UMN, MSAD Classroom Activity Kits, MSAD Making Healthy Snacks in School, MSAB/MSAD Drums Alive, MSAB Dwarf Fruit Trees, MSAB Making Healthy Snacks in School, MSAD EDGE, MSAD Jump Ropes, and MSAB Fit.
"Just wanted to let you know how excited my students have been about using the equipment we received from the grant! They ask me to work-out every day. We try to fit in at least a 10 minute work-out daily. We have been doing circuits with the equipment. We’ve been able to bring the equipment outdoors a couple of times to enjoy the weather while working out. We are excited to use the equipment for summer school and then daily in our class for the 2015-2016 school year.
Thanks again, we greatly appreciate it that we are able to incorporate fitness into our schedules while having a little fun doing it."
Do you have a resource or success story (“gem”) to share for a future issue? Submissions for each week’s Thursday publication are due by noon every Tuesday to Health.MakingitBetter@state.mn.us or community specialists for:
Announcing new MDH Active Transportation Coordinator: Ellen
Pillsbury is the new MDH Active Transportation Coordinator. She comes to this
position most recently from the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
(ARDC) in NW Minnesota where she worked for over 8 years as a Planner and
Senior Planner in a wide variety of local and regional active transportation
planning projects in the 7-county region encompassing 75 cities. Many of these
projects involved working closely with the SHIP grantee and their partners in
the region. Throughout her work, she also worked closely with other regional
planners across the state and with MnDOT planners and engineers. Ellen has a
Master’s degree in Urban Planning and holds the certifications of American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and League Cycling Instructor (LCI). She
starts this new position on June 22 at the MDH office in St. Paul.
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