Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play
Our Community Project is a state-wide initiative funded by the NY State Department of Health . Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work, & Play contractors across the state are working to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes by making it easier to be physically active and eat healthy foods. In Wayne County, we are creating policy, systems, and environmental changes in the communities to increase access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical acivity by helping create communities where physical activity opportunities are safe and accessible, inviting, and commonplace, and where healthy food is readily available.
Thank you for your interest in making Wayne County a healthier place to live, work, and play. The programs and partners featured on this site focus on healthy eating habits and physical activities. Remember, to enjoy life means you have to take care of yourself.
Cornell Cooperative Extension and their partners are working to ensure that communities promote healthy eating and physical activity.
Events and information contained here are sponsored & funded by a grant of the NY State Department of Health. The goals of the grant are to increase opportunities for physical activity and access and consumption of healthy foods in our target communities.
Some of our objectives to reach our goals are as follow:
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Plan, Plant, Maintain and Harvest Community Gardens
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Establish and promote the use of Farmers' Markets and implement innovative strategies to increase access to healthy foods
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Establish policies that allow use of public schools and facilities during non-school hours for physical activity and healthy lifestyle educational opportunities and promote use by community members
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Develop transportation policies and environmental changes to ensure streets are safe, accessible, and convenient for all users of the roadway.
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Establish or improve and promote use of neighborhood or community trails
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Add and promote healthier menu options in local restaurants
This website is intended to be a resource for community members and
organizations that want to create healthy, active living environments.
The information provided is intended to keep you current on what it means
to Create Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play in Wayne County, NY.
Fiesta!!!
Saturday, May 5th
10AM-noon
Lauraville Landing Park
On the Erie Canal Clyde, NY
Sponsored by the Village of Clyde
We are hosting a Fiesta Day to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and Love My Park Day. Come make kid friendly sangria, do some container gardening, create some crafts, and complete a scavenger hunt. The event will happen rain or shine under the pavilion. Tacos and a pinata will end the celebration. The event is FREE so bring your whole family!!!
"Lawn Furniture"
Living Sculpture Workshop
May 23, 2012 (Rain or Shine)
Lyons Community Center at the
Trail of Hope
4 Manhatten Street, Lyons, NY 14489
Create a living sculpture by shaping soil and covering it with grass! These sculptures take on many shapes and sizes, from sod animals and other figures, to more abstract creations. One of the most popular forms is a very literal translation of the term "lawn furniture. " Sod sofas, chairs, and chaise lounges are all the rage in both public and private settings. In addition, they're as functional as they are fun. They have a lot of appeal since they can provide a place to hang out and congregate in a public space such as a school garden, community green space or public garden. Come to learn how to create a piece of living furniture, and then - the sky will be the limit regarding what you can create on your own!
Hold your spot!!!
$10 registration fee by May 21st - refunded upon arrival*
2 Workshop times will be offered
2:30-5PM or 6-8:30PM
Dress appropriately for playing in the mud! No open toed shoes. Please bring work gloves and your own water bottle!
Snacks will be provided! It should be educational and lots of FUN!!!!
*Groups need only pay ten dollars to save a spot for the whole group.
Check Us Out on Facebook
Kim Gardner, nutrition educator, will be maintaining our facebook page. She will be updating our page weekly with healthy recipes, physical activity opportunities, events, successes, etc.. Next time you are facebooking your friends, search for the Creating Healthy Places Wayne County page and
"like us"!
Healthy School Team
The Healthy School Team at the Newark Central School District has started a District Health and Wellness web page. The page consists of healthy recipes, healthy tips, physical activity opportunities available at the school district, and much more. Follow this link: http://www.newark.k12.ny.us/739962214119/site/default.asp
to see how Newark CSD is promoting healthy lifestyles for students, staff and the community!
Food Day Event
Creating Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play grant project hosted a Food Day Event. Food Day seeked to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. Cornell Cooperative Extension educators hosted the event on October 24, 2011 in the gym at the Lyons Community Center(LCC) from 5:30 – 7:30PM. The gym was decorated with photos, pictures and chalk drawings created by students in the Lyons CSD LEAP afterschool program and students in the LCC afterschool program. Food Samplings were prepared and served by county organizations and school groups. Wayne County Public Health prepared Apple Crisp. Lyons CSD Food Service Director prepared a three bean salad. Wayne County Action Program/Tableworks prepared a pumpkin mousse. Wayne County 4H prepared a green bean salad, Eat Smart New York Educators prepared popcorn and corn chowder, Wayne County 4H Horticulture Club prepared a three bean soup. Students from the Lyons CSD LEAP afterschool program made pizza sauce and the students from the LCC afterschool program prepared the pizzas on the afternoon of the event. CHP educators prepared pumpkin pasta. Upstate Dairy donated fat free white milk and lowfat chocolate milk to the event. DeMarree Farms donated apples which were sectionized and served with a peanut butter yougart dip. The recipes highlighted local, healthy foods that were grown in the community gardens at the Lyons high school and community center. A tour of the Forever Wild for Everyone Butterfly Trail located adjacent to the community center was given by Trail Works, Inc. during the event. Guests were entertained by a heart warming video created by Mark DeCracker which highlighted the students that worked on the trail and the gardens. CHP educators would like to thank all the people who made this event a huge success. We served over 100 guests and fun was had by all. Thanks to Joe from CCE and the janitoral staff from LCC who helped set up for the event. A special thank you for Patrick from LCC who helped set up and tear down. Thank you to Cesar Ortiz and the Lyons Community Center for letting us hold our event in the gym.
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f and CCE of Wayne County would like to welcome our newly hired Nutrition Educator/Registered Dietitian, Leah Fedrizzi, to the Creating Healthy Places to Live Work and Play Project. We are thrilled to have her on board and anxious to put her to work. She will be concentrating her efforts on our restaurant project and meal programs in Wayne County Schools. You may see her influence in your child's breakfast, lunch or snack program. She will be assisting food service with making healthy, good tasting options for your children. Child care centers and Preschools will also get to take advantage of her expertise in nutrition when preparing their menus.
Lyons Central School District Food Service Department
...is the proud owner of a new sandwich/salad prep table in the elementary school. The equipment was made available through a CHP mini-grant. In October, Food Service Manager, Vince Beltrone, applied for the mini grant that would defray the initial costs of serving fresh produce in Wayne County Schools. With money from the mini-grant, Mr. Beltrone has purchased the sandwich/salad prep table, a vegetable slicer with shredder, and a sectionizer. All of the equipment will make produce more visually appealing to the students. The sandwich/salad table will allow food service staff to produce made to order salads and sandwiches. The slicer, shredder and sectionizer will be used as part of the vegetable and fruit prep which will make produce more visually appealing and easier to consume for the students.
Passport to Walworth Wellness!
Community Projects and the Town Of Walworth Parks and Recreation Department are pleased to announce the start of their community passport.
The passport features 4 trails with in the Town Of Walworth. All trails are animal friendly and accessible year round! Stop in the Recreation Department and rent snow shoes for a nominal fee and see what winter has to offer.
Upon completion of the trails you may return your completed passport to the Parks and Recreation Department for a grand prize drawing to take place at the Town Of Walworth's Festival in the Park 2011. The winner will receive a healthy picnic sponsored by Marks' Pizzeria in Ginegaw Park.
Click here to download your own passport!
Wegmans Passport to Family Wellness
has been extended!
Click here for trail maps, locations, and features!
Look at our success!
Read the stories below and see what this grant
has done for our communities.
Newark, Sodus and Lyons Farmers' Markets
Assist with implementation of EBT machine at Lyons Farmers' Market to increase access to fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. CHP educators promote the farmers' markets with Diaper Giveaways, Food Tastings and a National Dairy Month celebration.
Roosevelt Children's Center
Roosevelt Children's Center has completed the NAP SACC intervention. They have implemented practice, facility and policy changes that support the children's access to and consumption of fruit, vegetables and low-fat dairy as well as increased access to physical activity!
Lyons LEAP Program
Plans, Plants, Maintains, and Harvests a Pizza Garden and Pumpkin Patches.
Lyons Community Center After School and Summer Program
Plans, Plants, Maintains, and Harvests a Three Sisters Garden with corn, beans, and squash. Help Mark DeCracker from Trail Works to plant flowers, trees, herbs, and vegetable plants at the butterfly trail located next to the center.
Trail Works, Inc.
Another year for the Wegmans Passport to Family Wellness!
Harvest Month
CELEBRATE!
New York Harvest Month
for New York Kids
October 2011
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●Visit a local farm and meet local food producers
●Shop at and support local farmers’ markets
●Ask for New York State food products at your grocery store
●Use New York grown and processed food products in the school meal program
●Promote the health benefits of consuming fresh and frozen locally grown food
●Enjoy the wide variety of delicious and nutritious foods in our great State!
Food Service Departments in Wayne County School Districts implement practice and policy changes that support children's access to and consumption of fruits, veggies and low-fat dairy!
Wayne County Parks are the best!
There are over 30 public parks in Wayne County which offer great access to a variety of activities. Click here today and find a place to play and relax.
Site Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County - Creating Healthy Places Community Project.
A grant funded by the NYS Department of Health.
