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September Means Streets Alive!
Streets Alive! just around the corner; Ann Seacreast, MilkWorks founder retires; LNKTV Health see 2M You Tube views in 2019
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Active Ways to Everyday Places
Health and the City
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Did you catch our latest Health and the City column in the Lincoln Journal Star? Co-written with LNKTV Health, the column encourages people to lay down the car keys and find active ways to get to everyday places.
Read more.
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September Spotlight
MilkWorks
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MilkWorks Founder, Anne Secreast Retires
Ann Seacrest, long time MilkWorks Executive Director and one of its original founders, has announced her retirement. A long time partner of Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln and a tireless breastfeeding advocate and supporter, Ann expresses her thoughts on her journey in her final blog.
Read excepts on the MilkWorks' September partner highlight page.
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September Spotlight
LNKTV Health
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Eight Years and Going Strong
For over 8 years,
LNKTV Health has been committed to producing reliable and relevant programs accessible to anyone with access to either television or internet.
While it is at heart a television channel, LNKTV Health is aware that viewers are changing how they watch programs and learn about important topics. Over 95 percent of LNKTV Health's programs are available on their YouTube channel. With over 1000 videos produced and available to viewers not only locally, but worldwide, the channel's viewership in the last 2 years has grown by roughly 10-fold.
Read more ...
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LNKTV Health Productions
What to Watch
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| Watch the full episode now |
In September's Shape of the City:
- The first segment highlights what's new with Streets Alive! the annual outdoor movement festival, Sept. 22.
- In the second segment, get a preview of this year's Lincoln Calling music and wellness event.
- The third segment looks at the importance of family meals and National Childhood Obesity Awareness month.
- The final segment offers fall gardening tips.
More:
Check out the latest installment in the Simple Eats series.
Visit LNKTV Health's web site for a calendar of events, find a library of over 1,000 great health, wellness, and fitness videos, view the TV schedule or watch via video-on-demand.
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| Streets Alive! Just Around the Corner New location, new exhibitors, and new entertainment |
Join Us at Streets Alive!
Lots of new things are happening at Street Alive! this year! Please join us on Sunday, September 22, 2019 from 1-4:30 PM for our 9th annual
Streets Alive!
hosted this year by the South Salt Creek/Cooper Park neighborhood. Streets Alive! celebrates active living, wellness, and healthy eating in a festival full of entertainment and join-in activities that welcomes thousands of people each year. Want to know more? Watch here.
Volunteer
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Get Active at Streets Alive!
Streets Alive! encourages active living. You can walk, skate, bike, propel a wheelchair, push a stroller or even dance your way through 2 miles of the traffic-free Streets Alive! route.
Along the way you'll will find
join-in fitness classes
from the
YMCA
,
skateboard ramps
from
The Bay
and the
HyVee Healthy You
mobile station with
fitness activities for kids
, to name just a few opportunities to get moving.
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In Good Taste
You'll find the freshest local produce at the Community Crops Veggie Van, and even enjoy a healthy snack from the HyVee Wellness Bus, Costco, or Trader Joe's.
You can also sip on yummy
smoothies
made with bicycle power provided by the Great Plains Trails Network.
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Let Us Entertain You
We are collaborating with the Lincoln Calling Music Fest again this year to bring you great musicians like Jarana and The Wise that will be performing at Lincoln Calling and then joining us at Streets Alive!
We'll also have talented local musicians like Cool Poppas and Less Talk More Polka and performers of all kinds that will entertain you as you make your way down the route.
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Exhibitors and Kids' Activities
Streets Alive! offers
free health and wellness resources and information, often in a fun and interactive way that not only educates but delights kids as well as adults.
But there's also just plain fun activities for kids - like
Read Aloud Lincoln, bounce houses, and an LFD fire truck to climb on.
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Fall Happenings
Harvest Moon , Night Hike, Park Night Hike, Lincoln Fresh Schedule
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Sept. 22, 4-8 PM The Lincoln Asian Community and Cultural Center presents the Harvest Moon festival. Right after Streets Alive!, join the Asian Center for lantern lighting, live music, cultural performances, Asian cuisine, kids activities, and more. Antelope Park band shell, 27th & A Sts.
Oct. 4, 4-8 PM Pioneers Park Nature Center Night Hike. Experience a fall evening at the Nature Center after dark. Hike after sunset to enjoy the sights and sounds of the nocturnal world. On a clear evening, hike to a spot to enjoy the moonrise.
Register by Oct. 2 at this link.
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The Lincoln Fresh mobile food van has a new location and time schedule. Lincoln Fresh delivers FREE fresh fruits and vegetables to under-served neighborhoods.
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Thank You to Our Many Wonderful Sponsors!
Bronze: Cornhusker Bank, Great Plains Trails Network, Lancaster Country Medical Society, NeighborWorks Lincoln, Nebraska Total Care, Trader Joe's, Union Bank and Trust
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Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health, wellness, and fitness of Lincoln's children, families, and seniors.
We work to improve wellness policies, conduct community level health research, and collaborate with community partners to promote healthy food and beverage choices, increase fitness, decrease obesity, promote breastfeeding, improve cancer screening and vaccination rates, and improve patient outcomes.
More about our health initiatives
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