Sponsored: Make One Change for a Healthy Heart
Posted by Kim Gobbi on Mon, Feb 08, 2010 @ 08:19 AM
Join Us for the Torch Lighting!
To help shed light on heart disease, the #1 killer of both men and women, runners for Anna Jaques Hospital and The Tannery Marketplace will be traveling through seven towns surrounding the hospital with a special torch during the course of the Winter Olympics.
The Healthy Heart Torch tour commences at The Tannery Marketplace at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday, February 13. The Torch will be presented to Mayor Holaday, who will proclaim the day "Healthy Heart Day" in Newburyport. She will have the honor of presenting the Torch to Michele DeMarco Wilkie, a two-time heart attack survivor at the young age of 33.
In addition, The Tannery Marketplace will be enrolling residents in a weight-loss challenge called Lace Up & Shape Up!
Rick Bayko and Nancy McCarthy will travel with the Torch from The Tannery Marketplace to Anna Jaques Hospital and back again, before it sets out through the neighboring communities of Newbury, Rowley, Georgetown, West Newbury, Salisbury and Amesbury. Rick and Nancy will be followed by heart disease survivors and their families in Newburyport Pedicabs.
Come join AJH this Saturday at The Tannery Marketplace to celebrate heart-healthy living!