VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Let’s Walk Valley City is coming. It’s a FREE event on Monday, July 19 from 5pm to 8 pm. The event will offer fun activities, live music and delicious food for all ages.
Join the fun on a one-mile route that includes City Park and the VCSU campus. There will be games, activities, live music and delicious food along the way. There will be drawings for prizes including bikes, yard games and tennis shoes!
Check out over 30 booths! Try Tai Chi or learn a dance, play mini golf, hula hoop, listen to live music, play carnival games, participate in an art activity at the Chihuly booth and check out the foster pets available from Sheyenne Valley Friends of the Animals, and lots more.
There will also be many delicious food booths set up along the path. Sodexo Food Service at VCSU will be preparing “Chicken on a Stick” so you can keep walking while you are munching! CHI Mercy Health will be serving a delicious bean salsa with chips, the Open Door Center will be giving out popcorn, the Fuel Up to Play 60 students from Valley City Public Schools will be serving milk, both chocolate and white milk donated by Midwest Dairy Council, the Community Gardens will have samples of fresh garden veggies and there will also be fruit and yogurt parfaits, baby carrots and frozen fruit.
ON THE MOVE is teaming up with Valley City Parks and Recreation Dept. (an ON THE MOVE partner) to promote parks in July for National Park and Rec Month. “Walking is powerful medicine and the Let’s Walk Valley City event gives us the opportunity to have some fun and enjoy beautiful City Park as well as walk the one-mile path over to the VCSU campus,” states Andrea Winter, licensed registered dietitian and ON THE MOVE Coordinator at City County Health District. “Regular physical activity has been shown to reduce the risks of developing many types of chronic disease such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and many forms of cancer; and walking can help us keep a healthy weight and reduce stress,” continues Winter.
For more information about the event, please contact Andrea Winter at 845-8518. The event is funded by a grant City County Health District received from the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA).
