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Worksite Wellness Mini-Grants!
June 24, 2008 – 1:01 am
Attention all Summit County Employers!
Summit Prevention Alliance will be providing mini-grants for worksite wellness programs to four employers in the community. Each chosen worksite will be given up to $2,000.00 to apply to their programs. Applications and additional information are available at http://www.summitpreventionalliance.org/ and http://www.krystal93.com/. Please call Susan or Elyse at 970-668-2077 with any questions.
SPA on SCTV-10
June 3, 2008 – 5:44 am
Be sure to check out our programming on SCTV-10 (Summit County television cable channel 10) or follow the link to SCTV-10’s website. You’ll find the most recent episode of our monthly cooking show plus this month’s Dialogue over Dinner presentation in its entirety.
For more info and links to yummy recipes, check out this page.
Don’t forget to check back, for we will soon be posting the television schedule for the upcoming episodes on our main page!
Take me out to the ball game!
May 14, 2008 – 2:24 am
Everyone loves a good ball game! On May 8, SPA staff traveled to the big city of Denver to see the Colorado Rockies play the St. Louis Cardinals. It was great day. Everyone was excited when the Rockies beat the Cardinals….well, almost everyone. We did have ONE traitor among us…..TOM! Tom grew up a Cardinals fan, so he was just happy to see them play.
SPA to Award Mini-Grants
March 29, 2008 – 6:49 am
Through its LiveWell Colorado initiative, Summit Prevention Alliance will award grants to support local organizations with projects focusing on obesity prevention efforts in Summit County. Preference will be given to projects that target at-risk populations and/or focus on environmental change.
If you would like to talk with someone about your idea before you apply, please feel free to contact Elyse Jones at (970) 668-2077 or elyse@summitpreventionalliance.org.
Guidelines and Application:
Relic Artifact Discovered at SPA
March 22, 2008 – 10:58 am
We recently uncovered this relic artifact hidden in our office. Any ideas who it might be? Take a look at our staff page and take a guess!
Until next time,
Elyse (is being sneaky)
LEM at Romp to Stomp
March 22, 2008 – 12:43 am
Romp to Stomp was a big hit this year. It was the 6th annual Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer Snowshoe Series that was held on Saturday, March 8th of this year. It was an all snowshoe event and there were over 2,000 participants who helped raise funding for breast cancer research. Summit Prevention Alliance invited Latinas en Movimiento (LEM) to join them. We did the 3K fun race; it was so exciting to see Latinas be a part of a new snow sport. We even wore pink bandanas for support. I heard some comments from the ladies that they wanted to buy snow shoes so they can make this their winter sport. A total of 26 participated 14 women and 11 kids. This is the 2nd year that LEM has participated.
WAY TO GO LEM FOR PARTICIPATING IN A GOOD CAUSE!
Liliana
Move More (on Hippity Hops)!
March 6, 2008 – 6:20 am
Me (Elyse), jumping around
Kari’s new chair
Greetings, my loyal readers. If you thought SPA staff was a little bit silly, today’s blog will surely seal the deal and confirm your suspicions.
SPA recently invested in Hippity Hops (you know, bouncy balls with handles that kids bounce on). Why?!? Let me explain. Here at SPA, we work with our coalition to promote eating better and moving more through our LiveWell Colorado initative. In this upcoming year, one of our big strategies will be promoting worksite wellness. Cool, huh?
Although our staff here at SPA really tries its best to eat better and move more while at work, we are always looking for new and creative ways to be physically active in the office. Tom, our executive director, suggested that we all get Hippity Hops to jump on as we move around in the office. We all thought he was joking, but…when the bouncy balls arrived…boy, were we excited!
Going to the printer has never been so much fun!
Catch you all next time,
Elyse (is bouncing at her desk)
Doggy Day at the Office
February 29, 2008 – 8:07 am
Today was Doggy Day at Summit Prevention Alliance. (Let’s be realistic: It’s *always* Doggy Day at SPA). Anyway…today was a special day because we took all six dogs on a nice hike up to Rainbow Lake for our February staff activity. I was the only person who didn’t have a dog. Well, actually, Susan doesn’t really have a dog, either. She was watching Natalie’s dog, Hunter. I guess she was paying back Natalie for teaching us all how to knit.
Hiking with the dogs was super fun. Sadie, Kari’s dog, did lots of extra work runing up and down, making sure we were all there in our herd. The rest of the dogs enjoyed romping in the snow. We ran into quite a few dogs up at the lake, so they all had fun playing together.
I was kind of jealous that I didn’t have a dog and everyone else did, but oh well. I get to play with 6 or 7 dogs everyday at work, so I guess I am one lucky girl.
Catch ya later!
Elyse
SPA Staff in Stitches!
February 28, 2008 – 3:01 am
Susan, an expert knitter
Natalie and Holly
On a chilly Thursday after work, our good friend Natalie, the school health coordinator at Summit School District, came over to SPA to teach the SPA ladies how to knit. Susan is already a pretty good knitter, for Natalie had taught her to knit the previous summer. Holly, Liliana, and I, however, were all beginners. Natalie rose to the challenge and did a great job teaching us how to knit and purl. She recently taught a Girl Scout troop how to knit, so she was a seasoned knitting instructor.
I think knitting could be a great asset-building activity that parents can do with their children! For more information about how to get started with knitting, check out KnittingHelp.com. They have free instructional videos and everything.
See you all later!
Elyse
Shrimp and Snow
February 1, 2008 – 9:40 am
Me (Elyse) and Donna at Bubba Gump’s
On the final, cold day in January, SPA staff members spent a pleasant afternoon in Breckenridge. We enjoyed dining at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and viewing the snow sculptures on display from the International Snow Sculpture Championships.
At Bubba Gump’s, I inspected the menu with a vulture’s eye and feasted upon a fried-fish sandwich smothered with pepper jack cheese. My choice of a crispy entree instead of broiled one got me in trouble with Tom. He threatened to send evidence of my not-so-healthy choice to the LiveWell Colorado grant administrators (I am the project manager for LiveWell Colorado, which is an initiative that encourages people to eat better and move more). Coming to my defense, Donna insisted that she would hide the receipt from our meal from Tom.
Susan briefing us on our dessert choices
After our main courses, we indulged in dessert, another not-so-healthy choice. Susan briefed us all on our options with a nice little presentation using the ping-pong menu as a visual aid. We all shared two scrumptious choices–a warm cookie with ice cream and strawberry shortcake.
SPA staff
Next, we visited the Riverwalk Center to view the snow sculptures. It’s amazing how a lifeless element like snow takes on a soul after you turn it into a sculpture. At my favorite snow sculpture, a depiction of a special moment between a father and a toddler, is where we paused to take a picture. Whether you enjoy fantasy or whether you enjoy stark realism, the snow sculptures can become a mirror of life. As Forrest Gump would say….
Goodbye for now!
Elyse