News You Can Use

Sharing information about physical activity and healthy nutrition is an important part of the Let’s Go! initiative. Here is a listing of our current news highlights:

Recent Press

• Let’s Go! promotes Windham wellness (PDF)

              Windham Independent, January 24, 2008

• Parents need help in helping kids

              Portland Press Herald Maine Voices, January 17, 2008

• Holiday health watch: Making healthy choices in the New Year

              Gazette Newspaper, January 4, 2008

• Weekly Interview: Dr. Tory Rogers and Robbie Lipsman

              Gazette Newspaper, January 4, 2008

• Let's Go project helps kids form healthy habits

              Portland Press Herald, October 2, 2007:

Community News

Yarmouth schools will use an 'edible schoolyard' to provide food and lessons on biology and the environment.

Becki Schreiber, director of the Yarmouth school nutrition program, tries to serve plenty of fresh, locally grown vegetables for school lunches, but the cost sometimes strains the budget. Now, Yarmouth schools have come up with an easier way to get fresh produce into school cafeterias: growing it in the schoolyard. Read more.

Let's Go! Receives Healthy Weight for Children State Champions Award

The Founding Partners of Let’s Go! were honored for their forward-thinking corporate leadership on healthy weight for children. Let’s Go! was one of three Healthy Weight for Children State Champions honored at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation conference dedicated to beating childhood obesity. Read more.

Let's Go! Leadership Committee member, Brenda White, named Maine’s School Nurse of the Year by Maine Association of School Nurses.

'She's like the ultimate'. Freeport's Brenda White has earned a lofty honor by winning the trust of teachers, parents and students. Read the Portland Press Herald story from November 30, 2007.

 

E-News Archives

March 2008 (PDF)

December 2007 (PDF)

August 2007 (PDF)

May 2007 (PDF)