b'Champion LettersDear Healthy Monadnock, you for letting me share my success story with It was great training for and participating inyou! Champion-Tarah Jacksics (pictured with the inaugural Clarence DeMar half marathon! her daughter) / Organizational Champion-Clarke The 13.1 mile distance is challenging but notDistributors (Keene)overwhelming and the training helps keep me in shape withoutDear Healthy Monadnock,significantlyGood news!I will become a Champion and altering a busyhave recruited schedule.ThanksDeb, Nancy and to the manyJulia to become volunteers for theirChampions encouragementas well. If Phil Dear Healthy Monadnock, and smiles andbecomes one, Breaking news: As of minutes ago, last thingspecial thankswe will have for a Friday afternoon, I finished meeting withto the hundreds100 percent every staff member (full and part time) andof child runnersChampion have 100 percent of the Emerson staff signedcheering usparticipation up as Individual Champions!! So excited! on with theirat the Greater Champion-Lynne Rumba (pictured above onnoisemakers all along the route!Champion- Keene Chamber right) / School Champion-Dr. George S. EmersonFrank Mazzola (Keene) of Commerce! Elementary School (Fitzwilliam)Champion-Christine Hadlow / Organizational Dear HealthyChampion-Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce Dear Healthy Monadnock, Monadnock, (Keene)Our wellness committee just met and weLast November, have put into place some goals for the year:I walked into myDear Healthy Monadnock,First, we are having a Heart Healthy Valentinesnew doctors officeAt this mornings Monadnock Rotary meeting, Holiday Partyfor a normal officewe had Christine Laclair, guidance counselor for our wholevisit. I ended upat the Healthy Monadnock Champion School school. We sentwalking out with- Marlborough School as our guest speaker. out a flyer witha prescriptionLori Palmisano, school nurse, also joined her. heart healthyfor Chantix, aThey did a great snack recipessmoking cessationjob of sharing the for parents toprescription that changed my life! After 3+activities they have bring in. Wemonths I am still smoke free. I cant lie andimplemented for are excitedsay I havent slipped up, but that makes me astudents, parents to see how ithuman, not a smoker. Some days I forget I everand teachers goes! Second,smoked at all and other days are still a struggle.towards living we are also planning to have several walk- Now when I have a craving, I hit the gym or doactive, healthy to-school days to encourage more physicalsome cardio, and in that moment I rememberlifestyles. They activity to and from school. Lastly, we are inwhy I never want to be a smoker again. I lovehave seen positive the process of writing a grant to order recessrunning with my dog, but it was obviously aresults in the equipment for each classroom to encouragechallenge while smoking. Now I dont strugglefood choices more physical activity during recess time. Theat all. I might not run fast, but I can run forthe students are making, and are having 2nd through 5th graders are enjoying somelong periods without stopping to catch myfun trying out new foods, such as pea pods snowshoeing during PE classes and snowbreaththats one of the best feelings I haveand kiwi! The metrics they are tracking are shoes will be available during recess time asever felt! If I can give up the habit, anyone can.showing concrete results in lower percentages well. Our initiatives in place from last year areI truly believe this. I loved to smoke! I was aof children at obesity levels. Fantastic news! still going to carry on this year: 5-2-1-0 Club,pack a day smoker for at least 15 years of myEven club member John Goodhue signed Fitness Club, Spring Track Club, and Run/Walklife. Today I feel 100 percent better. I can beup as an Individual Champion.Champion-across America activity during recess time. Weon a plane, train, bus or in an all-day meetingRobin Eichert / Organizational Champion-The are certainly keeping healthy and active year- without my cravings controlling me andMonadnock Rotary Club (Dublin)round at Fuller School!Champion-Johannamaking me ornery. I am also saving more than Kress / School Champion-Fuller Elementary$1,800 a year by not being a smoker, never (Keene) mind the overall health advantages! Thank 6 Healthy Monadnock Update 2015'