FitKids
Campaign 2003-2004-2005-2006
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Read
the press release about Mamaroneck School District’s
participation in
Walk to School Week
from October 6 – 10, 2008.
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Mamaroneck School District will
participate in a Walk to School Week from October 6 – 10, 2008.
Print
pledges. |
Read Ossining Union Free School District’s Wellness Policy…At
a Glance.
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Read about NYSHEPA
– the New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Alliance.
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BeFit Westchester visits
Yonkers School 23.
Read the article in The
Journal News. |
Read Port Chester's
District Wellness Newsletter
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Read about the
Rye Middle School’s
health fair in the
Rye Record.
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Read about the Daniel Warren School’s (Rye Neck school district)
“Think Breakfast Program” in The Rye Record  |
Read about the jump rope program at Central School
(Mamaroneck school district) in the Larchmont Gazette. |
Read about the
wellness initiative at Greenvale School (Eastchester school
district). |
Read about
Rye Neck Middle School’s “Fear Factor Tasting” in The Rye
Record
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Read about Rye Recreation Department’s
“Passports
to Playgrounds" program.
This community event, sponsored by Rye Recreation, the Rye
Elementary Schools and the Rye YMCA, encourages children and
their families to visit local playgrounds.
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Daniel Warren
students create a “healthy quilt”  |
Wellness Day at Bear Mountain State Park
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Gardening at Hartsbrook Masters program
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King Street School International Walk to School Day
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Read about the farmers’ market at Osborn School in Rye.  |
Read about
the
new mural
in Dow’s Lane’s cafeteria (Irvington School District).

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Ossining’s Wellness Efforts
tie for best in State
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Take a look
at Port Chester’s
Fit Kids calendars (for King Street School and Park
Avenue School). |
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Richard J. Bailey School in
Greenburgh participated in the
Gardening at Hartsbrook Master Gardeners Program |
Read about Richard J. Bailey
School’s
Wellness Day at Bear Mountain State Park.
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King Street School in Port
Chester participated in
International Walk to School Day on October 3rd, 2007.
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Read about Joseph D’Aquanni
West Road Intermediate School’s walking program
in
The Poughkeepsie News
West Road is a Fit Kids of Hudson Valley school in Dutchess
County. |
Congratulation to the Ossining
Union Free District for receiving the Healthy STARS Silver Level
Award.
Read the press release.
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Read about the
Haldane school district’s health fair. Haldane Elementary
and Middle/ High School are Fit Kids of Hudson Valley schools in
Putnam County.
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Read about the
milk taste
tests conducted by the Westchester County Department of
Health at Mildred E. Strang Middle School in Yorktown.
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Read about
Fitness Fun Day at Mohansic School, Yorktown in the North
County News.
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In
April, the Irvington School District held an
“Eat Smart”
event that promoted healthy eating, physical activity and
wellness. |
In Yorktown, Mohansic School
kindergarteners were treated to a healthy birthday celebration.
See the
birthday surprise! |
Briarcliff Wellness Taste Tests

Briarcliff Middle School Taste Test #2 Recipes
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From the Rye Sound Shore
Review; March 2, 2007
Rye
holds the mayo in fight against fat
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Students at Columbus
Elementary in Thornwood became members of the
Columbus Fit Kids Cub Club
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Read about
Fit Kids in InTown Magazine's April 2007 Issue.
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Lakeland
elementary schools participate in No Junk Food Week.
Read about it in the North
County News. |
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Orange
County schools – our partners in Fit Kids of Hudson Valley -
participate in No Junk Food Week.
Read the press release. |
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Read about
New Rochelle City School District’s plans for
No
Junk Food Week.
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Read about Claremont School’s (Ossining)
Kids in the Kitchen
event. |
Read
about the grants awarded by the Rye YMCA’s Activate America
coalition to Fit Kids schools.  |
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Read about
Port Jervis Middle School’s
health and wellness assembly
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Port Jervis Middle School is a Fit Kids of Hudson Valley school
located in Orange County. |
Read about
Springhurst Elementary School’s
(Dobbs Ferry) Fit Kids Month.
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Daniel Warren Elementary School in Rye
Neck has started a series of Fitness Workshops.
Find out about this program
and other wellness initiatives at the school. |
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Read about
RJ
Bailey School's Community Service Day in The Journal News.
(pdf) |
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Read about
and see pictures of how the
Osborn School in Rye chose healthy rewards. |
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Read about
the Irvington school district’s celebration of
NY Harvest
for NY Kids. |
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Rye YMCA
awards grants to Sound Shore schools to promote healthy kids
initiative.
Read
the press release. |
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See what schools were doing for
No Junk Food Week 2008
Read
about
New
Rochelle School District’s plans for No Junk
Food Week 2008

View Port
Chester's flyer for No Junk Food Week

Read the
Journal News article
about
No Junk Food Week at Richard J. Bailey School in the
Greenburgh school district.

Read about the
variety of activities
R.
J. Bailey School
(Greenburgh
school district) planned for National Nutrition Month and No Junk
Food Week.

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Read
the November 15th, Journal
News article about school fundraisers. |
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Read about seasonal foods in a letter sent home to
Ossining parents. Brookside School; Claremont School, Park
School, Anne M. Dorner Middle School and Ossining High School
celebrated the harvest with apple tastings in their cafeterias. |
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Read
about Richard J. Bailey School’s Wellness Program in the
letter sent home to parents. (pdf) |
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View
pictures of the Fit Kids Race on Sunday, October 8, 2006
(pdf) |
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Read
the back-to-school Fit Kids flyer
sent home to Ossining parents. |
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Children &
Obesity, A Growing problem for today's kids (Journal News
Article, June 25, 2006) pdf |
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Claremont
Students in Ossining are "Fit Kids" |
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Aramark's SPIKE character visits
Park Early Childhood Center and Brookside School in
Ossining. |
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F.E.
Bellows Elementary School
(Rye Neck Union Free
School District) students participate in No Junk Food Week |
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Read about Fit
Kids at Anne Dorner Middle School in Ossining. |
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See posters made for No Junk Food Week by
Family School 32 students in Yonkers. |
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Springhurst Elementary School will be participating in the
Westchester County Department of Health's
FIT KIDS program
designed to educate and encourage children to eat healthier and
to be more active. |
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Read about No Junk Food Week activities in Irvington. |
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Read the press release: Congrats to the Fit Kids Schools
that received the Health Index Grant funding. (pdf) |
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Read about
Fit Kids in the
Hudson Independent
(pdf) |
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See
Port Chester’s Fit Kids calendar for February.
(pdf) |
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Read
about last year’s pedometer activity at Bedford Road School in
Pleasantville. |
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See
what Irvington schools are doing for “New York Harvest for New
York Kids Week.”
Read
the flyer sent home to parents and
view pictures
(updated 10/26) |
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Read
Ossining School District’s
back-to-school flyer about their Fit Kids program. The
handout was sent home to parents and posted on the district’s
website. |
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See
John F. Kennedy Magnet School’s (Port Chester)
Fit Kids display case. |
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Learn
about
Claremont School’s (Ossining) walking program. |
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County
Executive Andy Spano recognizes
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Shrub Oak for their
participation in No Junk Food Week. |
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Read
Somers Intermediate School’s new
Health Newsletter, written by students for
students |
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See
Edison
School's fruit and vegetable parade in Port Chester's Westmore
News.
Read
about John
F. Kennedy Magnet School's Fit Kids program kick-off in Port
Chester's Westmore News.
Read
about
Brookside
School
’s (
Ossining
) Fun
Run Sports Day planned for June.
Read
about Fit Kids in The
Journal News (Sunday, April 17)
Read
about Fit Kids in Westchester
Parent magazine (May 2005)
See
Port
Chester
’s Fit Kids calendar for April in
English/Spanish (pdf)
Read
about Claremont
School's walking program
in The Journal News.
Read
about No
Junk Food Week at Crompond Elementary School, Yorktown in the
North County News.
See Port
Chester's Fit Kids Calendar.
Read
Somers school district's new Health
& Nutrition Newsletter. (pdf)
Port
Chester kicks-off Fit Kids at JFK
Math, Science, Technology Magnet School on
February 10, 2005.
Somers
Intermediate School will participate in No
Junk Food Week 2005. View the March
lunch menu, featuring a column What
is JUNK FOOD?, and the March
breakfast menu.
Read
about
Claremont
School
’s (
Ossining
) walking contest. (pdf)
Read/view
pictures about
Kensico
School
’s (
Valhalla
) new jogging path and walking club. (pdf)
Ossining
Matters awards $600 to Ossining Schools for Fit Kids. View
award (pdf)
See
what Pleasantville
PTA parents are doing to be good role
models for their children.
View
Somers Intermediate School's healthy......
December menu.
November menu.
Read about Fit Kids in the district's PTA
Newsletter.
October
menu.
Ossining
expands Fit Kids to all of the
district's elementary schools.
Somers
School District welcomes the 2004-2005 school year by adopting the
“Choose Sensibly” program in their school cafeterias.
Read Superintendent Dr. Joanne Marien’s letter
to parents and view Somers Intermediate School’s new
September menu.
Kensico
School, Valhalla to Participate in International
Walk to School Day on October 6.
Valhalla’s
Kensico School Participates in
International Walk to School Day on
October 6, 2004. Read a summary
and view
pictures. |
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Wellness
Wednesdays come to Bedford Road School in Pleasantville! Read
a summary and view pictures. (pdf)
-View the Fit
Kids Kick-Off at Brookside Elementary School (pdf)
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-Brookside
Elementary School (letter to
parents) |
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-View Fit
Kids on Ossining's Website
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Valhalla
School District (pdf)
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Valhalla School District, No Junk Food Week (pdf) |
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White
Plains Middle School/Highland Campus serves a healthy lunch,
view
January 2004's menu
(pdf)
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-White
Plains Elementary School/Mamaroneck Avenue School (view
in pdf format) |
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Somers
Schools |
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Plains Elementary School/Mamaroneck
Avenue Schools |
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View Valhalla School Districts "Dairy Day" held on May
12, 2004. Read
summary of the day and view pictures from the Journal News.
- Read
the Journal News article. (pdf)
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Ossining's
Brookside School Plans Fit Kids Program End-of-Year Event
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about it in the Journal News. (pdf)
- Brookside School in Yorktown has highest participation in
"No Junk Food Week". (pdf) |
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White
Plains Middle School's Highland Campus
welcomes back Wellness Wednesdays. Oct.
2004 |
Ossining
Elementary Schools kick-off this year's Fit Kids program.
- Read
the letter sent home to parents.
- Foodplay
will bring their performance to schools in January.
- View
the worksheet that will be distributed to Claremont students
to coincide with a "Wellness Message" promoting daily
exercise. |
View
White Plains Middle School's November
Menus. The 3-A-Day National
Dairy Council Education Program kicks off
on November 17 - 19 in the middle and high
schools with calcium-rich entrees.
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Fun
in Fitness Festival:
View the 2003 event |
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Press Releases 2004:
October 25, 2004: Westchester
County scores high statewide in eating fruits and vegetables.
Sept. 30, 2004: Westchester
County's Fit Kids catching on at schools across the
county.
- Spano
announces March 15 to start No Junk Food Week (pdf)
- Spano
announces No Junk Food Day at Brookside School in Ossining
(pdf)
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Spano
kicks off new program to fight childhood obesity (pdf)
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Press Releases 2005: |
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January
19, 2005: Westchester
County Health Department to receive new funding for healthy lifestyle
promotion.
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