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Dear Partners in Public Health:

At the recommendation of our Exercise Facilitators, the C3PH Board is canceling the April 1, 2011 Exercise scheduled to be held at the Carroll County Administration Building, Delegation Room. Apologies for any and all inconveniences.

This Notice is to serve as a postponement of the Exercise. We will begin our pre-planning requirements and a reschedule date will be selected.

Thank you.

Ellen Laase
Board Chair

April 5-11, 2010 is National Public Health Week. The theme is A Healthier America:  One Community at a Time. The American Public Health Association (APHA) has a broad mission to make America the healthiest nation in one generation.  Like all things in public health, that can only happen at the local level:  the community level.  We are joining APHA in asking you to champion public health by making healthy changes- big and small in your families, individual neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.  What does this look like?
•    Add more fruits and vegetables to your family’s diet.
•    Build a garden.
•    Walk or bike to a school or work once per week.
•    Carpool.
•    Make sure your child is up to date on immunizations.
•    Plant a tree.
•    Try to quit smoking again and again because practice makes perfect.
•    Cover your sneeze or cough.
•    Wash your hands.
•    Visit www.nhpha.org click on Advocate and click Bill Tracking Chart.  Select a Bill that is important to you and encourage your legislator to vote for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:  “The first wealth is health.”  If you have ever stood vigil at a sick child’s bedside or watched a loved one deteriorate from a preventable condition, you know what this means.
All of these individual and community level changes will add up to big health improvements for you and your community.  Make it is small, but make it count!

If you would like more information about NPHW, go to www.c3ph.org.