What is it?
The third annual Hyacks in Motion three-kilometre family run/walk and health fair.
Who’s putting it on and why?
The New Westminster Secondary School sport leadership cohort and the New Westminster Healthier Community Partnership, along with Healthy Schools B.C., are working to promote a healthier New Westminster by bringing the community, schools, families and students together to create a more active and healthy community.
Will it be fun?
That’s the plan. Organizers have asked all of the organizations attending the Health Fair to make their booths as interactive as possible. If you like to be outside, move, eat, dance and look at ways of being healthy, you’ll want to attend.
Tell us about the health fair:
Chad Oatway, a teacher and coach at New Westminster Secondary School, says the Health Fair gets underway after the run/walk. Along with entertainment from the NWSS school band Dysfunctional, several businesses will be providing food. Other organizations and businesses that support health in the community, including health-care providers, community clubs and sport organizations, community infrastructure and development, and environmental sustainability groups, will be on hand.
What is the money raised for?
Proceeds from last year’s event raised enough to subsidize some of the costs for a water safety lesson, ice skating and tennis lessons for the sport leadership cohort. The sport leadership cohort is hoping to use some of the funds to travel to Camp Potlatch in June this year.
“It is the hope this year we can do better than previous years, and some of the funds raised can go to support field trips and equipment around health education in the school district as many of our elementary schools have very little funding for equipment to support physical health education,” Oatway said. “Ultimately, it would be wonderful to raise enough money for a school district bus to reduce the cost for a class to go on field trips that can really support authentic education and student learning.”
What is the sport leadership cohort?
The program uses sport and physical activity to help Grade 10 boys develop confidence and leadership skills – with the idea being they’ll apply these skills to their own lives and help create a more active, healthy community.
Details please:
Registration and sign-in is on Saturday, May 7 from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. and the walk/run starts at 10:30 a.m.
