Thank you for another successful Streets Alive! event! See you next year!
News coverage from the second annual Streets Alive!
Streets Alive! is a physical activity festival where walkers, bikers, runners, skaters, dancers - any form of human-powered movement - bring the Streets Alive!
Three miles of roads connecting downtown Fargo-Moorhead and Oak Grove, Great Northern, and Davy Memorial Parks will be closed to automobiles and opened for you to move! You can start anywhere on the route.
Experience fitness and dance activities, music, art and entertainment in the parks and along the route. Healthy foods, family activities, health exhibits and much, much more!
Streets Alive! goals are to:
Improve the long-term health and well-being of our residents, regardless of current fitness condition, by increasing levels of physical activity.
Raise acceptance of bicycling and walking as ways of getting around.
Facilitate greater awareness of the connections between environment, transportation and health.
Being healthy and fit in adulthood is largely determined by the communities we live in as children. The decisions made in our schools, daycares, and cities about increasing opportunities for physical activity directly effect us as adults. Wherever children live, learn, play, and pray - their food and fitness environment - is one of the most important determinants of whether they end up fit and healthy or not. When children do not have access to a healthy environment, they can have poor health and a lower quality of life. When we improve the food and fitness environment, the health of the children who live there improves as well.
Let's make the Fargo-Moorhead area the healthiest place in the nation to live by reducing the number of children with unhealthy weight by 20% by 2020!
