Posted on Friday, June 8, 2007 by
Michael •
Burlington Ward 5 City Councilor Bill Keogh is using Front Porch Forum to organize an initiative he calls Walk with Me…
Want to reduce your health care costs? Start at home by (and you’ve heard this before): not smoking, watch how often you eat and how much you eat, and exercise. Exercise is not a sophisticated endeavor. It means you get out and walk. Walk up and down the street, around your block. Just walk.
With that in mind, I am looking for volunteer WWM’s! Those are Walk With Me leaders. You would be the person in your neighborhood who would be a leader in a neighborhood walk of, maybe 15 mins a day, twice a week. This proposal is to get folks in the neighborhood together, to take a short evening stroll. Aha! Exercise and sociability.
By neighborhood, I’m talking about focusing around the area covered by your electronic Front Porch Forum. The walks could be at 7 p.m. on a weekday and one day of the weekend. If you are interested, contact me at bkeoghsr@yahoo.com for more details and support.
Good for Bill! I know a former councilor who has done the same thing in her own New North End neighborhood through Front Porch Forum. Another great use of this service.