5K/10K Fun Run Walk
Carrera y Caminata de Diversión de 5k/10k
The first 1000 South Kern Residents or Partners to submit a pledge will receive a Gym/Tote bag.
Las primeras 1,000 personas que hagan el compromiso recibirán un gimnasio/bolsa de CCS
Residents of Arvin, Greenfield, Lamont and Weedpatch /Residentes de Arvin, Greenfield, Lamont y Weedpatch
You are invited to make one change for 100 days that will improve your health/Estas invitado hacer un cambio por 100 días que mejorara su salud.
Guidelines for Participation/Pautas de la participación:
- Choose one change that will improve your and your family’s health and make that change for 100 days./Elija un cambio que mejorara su salud y la de su familia y haga ese cambio por 100 días.
- Submit one “Live the Challenge” form per participant at your local Family Resource Center: Arvin – 207 South A St., Greenfield – 5400 Monitor St., Lamont/Weedpatch – 7839 Burgundy Ave./Entregue el formulario “Vivir el Reto” en un Centro de Recursos de la Familia: Arvin – 207 South A St., Greenfield – 5400 Monitor St., Lamont/Weedpatch – 7839 Burgundy Ave.
- Invite your friends and neighbors to “Live the Challenge”./ Invite a sus amigos y vecinos a que se comprometan a hacerse a sí mismos y a sus familias más saludables.
- Begin the challenge on or after Feb 6th./
Also Join the 5th annual 5k/10k Fun Run celebration on April 25th in Lamont and see how your change has helped create a Healthier South Kern!
Acompáñenos en la 5ª caminata/carrera anual el 25 de abril en la Lamont y vea como su cambio ha ayudado a crear un Sur de Kern mas Saludable
¡Todo mundo y todas las edades son bienvenidos!
Prizes! ¡Premios!
Food! ¡Comida!
Free! ¡Gratis!
For questions or more information, call Marina at 845-2724
Para preguntas o para más información, llame a Marina a 845-2724
On behalf of The California Endowment, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, and Community Water Center, you are invited to the South Kern Agua4all Initiative Launch Event in Lamont on Thursday, January 29, 2015.
The Agua4all Initiative seeks to create and promote increased safe water access and consumption in light of the health and equity issues such as unsafe drinking water and consumption of unhealthy, sugar sweetened beverages throughout California’s most underserved communities, specifically in South Kern and Eastern Coachella.
This very important media and community event will celebrate the first round of installation of 120 water bottle filling stations. Your strong support and partnership for increased safe water in your community has been vital and has resulted in the local schools, parks, libraries, health clinics, and other community spaces in Arvin, Lamont, and Weedpatch getting these stations! Come and try out a filling station with a water bottle and meet the school and community partners; local and State officials; funders; and non-profits that made this happen. We want to celebrate and recognize the strong leadership of all of these partners, yourself included.
We would be honored if you could join us to launch this important effort to ensure that all Californians lead healthy, vibrant lives by creating innovative solutions together through safe drinking water.
Please RSVP HERE and we look forward to seeing you there!
DATE
Thursday, January 29, 2015
TIME
9:00 am – Mingle and Networking
10:00 am – Press Conference
LOCATION
Lamont Park
8304 Segrue Rd.
Lamont, CA 93241
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about the event or the Agua4all Initiative, please contact Shen Huang at shen.huang@communitywatercenter.org or call (559) 733-0219.
The new company Recology is taking over the recycling center and they would like to meet with the residents of Lamont and Arvin to introduce Recology and discuss their plans to upgrade the Lamont facility and improve operations. Most importantly they want to listen to the community about current conditions and impacts. Recology want to work hand in hand with community groups.
When: Monday December 15th from 6-8pm
Where: David Head Center, 10300 San Diego Street in Lamont.
La nueva compañía Recology estará operando el centro de reciclaje y ellos quieren reunirse con residents de Lamont, Weedpatch, y Arvin para presentarse y discutir sus planes de actualizar y mejorar el reciclaje de Lamont y mejorar las operaciones. Lo más importante ellos quieren escuchar a los residentes sobre las condiciones e impactos. Recology trabajara mano a mano con los grupos comunitarios. Asiste y comparte tus preocupaciones.
Cuando: Lunes Diciembre December 15th de 6-8pm
Donde: David Head Center, 10300 San Diego Street in Lamont.
The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted to the 2014 Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
Project submitted by Building Healthy Communities South Kern
Project summaryWhen community comes together to lift up their voice, powerful things can happen. In 2014 the rural, South Kern County communities of Lamont, Weedpatch, the unincorporated areas of Greenfield and the City of Arvin came together and patch by patch, families and community groups stitched together their hopes and dreams of a healthy community for the next generation to create a 11’9″ x 9’2″ communal quilt.
BHC site South Kern
Everyone who lives, works and plays in South Kern are partnering to create a healthy, safe and clean community that embraces our cultures and fosters opportunity for all residents, especially youth to develop their full potential.
Over 1,200 residents, youth, businesses and organizations are leading the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) South Kern effort to positively change the health of our communities through a shared vision, goals and action plan. Residents in Arvin, Lamont, Weedpatch, and the unincorporated areas of Greenfield are proving that we have the power to make health happen in our communities.
BHC South Kern is promoting healthy change in the areas of: • Education: Improving education from pre-K through adult • Environment: Creating a healthy environment with clean air and water • Health Access: Increasing access to a better health care system • Recreation: Improving recreational activities, facilities and parks
The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted to the 2014 Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
Check out the full story here
Dear San Joaquin Valley SB 375 Allies:
Thank you for participating in our intra-regional brainstorming session in Fresno on September 4th. This was a great opportunity to share and identify the regional challenges of SB 375 implementation, and to identify opportunities for state legislative and administrative advocacy. We will be in contact with you soon to share the notes from that discussion and get additional feedback.
As you may recall, we and our partners (Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA, PolicyLink and Urban Habitat) have facilitated similar conversations with SB 375 equity advocates in the other major regions of the state (SCAG region, San Diego, Bay Area and Sacramento) and now is the time to bring us all together from across California for an initial discussion of common themes for this exciting effort to build on the initial regional discussions and create an equity-first vision for state policy change on SB 375
That first inter-regional convening of SB 375 leaders will be via a Webinar discussion on Wednesday, December 10th from 3-5PM. We will share our findings from the regional meetings, and begin to identify policy responses to priority issues and ideas. Your participation in this Webinar is critical to developing a state policy platform that will ensure more equitable outcomes for all of our communities.
Please confirm your participation by Monday, November 10th by replying to this email.
Thank you,
Veronica Garibay and Phoebe Seaton, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jonathan Malagon and Chione Flegal, PolicyLink
