Eat Smart, Move More, Win $500 Cash

The 4-H After School program is offering Ashe County families a chance to learn about eating smart and to win $500 with a program beginning April 10 and running through May 22.

Introducing a Families Eating Smart Moving More series with the 4-H After-School Program at Mountain View Elementary School.

All parents and children of Ashe County are welcome to join the fun, taught as a series of ten-minute, drop-in sessions from 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. on April 10, April 24, May 8 and May 22. During each session, Juliana Whitaker, Project Coordinator of Ashe Healthy Carolinians, and Beth Fornadley, District Health Educator of the Appalachian District Health Department, will share information on health, nutrition, and physical activity.
Those who attend the sessions will receive a calendar to keep track of their families' leisure physical activities and get ideas about new activities they can try.

The tear-off sheet on the back of the calendar is an entry ticket for a chance to win one of two $500 cash prizes. Each session attended counts as an additional entry into the drawing, offering an even better chance to win. The sessions will be held at Mountain View but are open to all parents of Ashe County school children.

Save the date for April 10, 2008, the kick-off day of the contest, when informational flyers with entry logs will be distributed at all Ashe County Elementary Schools at the end of the school day, and a full-year calendar will be given to participants of the educational drop-in sessions at Mountain View Elementary school.

In order for families to be entered in the drawing for one of the two $500 cash prizes, an entry log (on the back of the flyer or a tear-out of the calendar) must be completed and turned in by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 23. Directions on the flyer and calendar provide reminders of the deadline and give locations for submitting the family leisure physical activity log.

The drawing will be held May 24, 2008 during the Lansing Rubber Ducky Festival