NEW FOOT RACES PLANNED FOR KIDS' FITNESS EVENTS.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer Buoyed by the success of last year's Kids Fitness Challenge, in which students earned prizes for participating in fitness events, this year's challenge will offer two 5K races, Assemblyman Lloyd Levine said. Events will be held April 30 in Warner Park
Warner Park is a community park in northern Madison, Wisconsin. , Woodland Hills, and Oct. 15 in Panorama City. Kids can walk, run, skate or bicycle a 5K course with their parents and friends. ``Don't just tell them to be healthy,'' said Levine, 35, who runs marathons and completed a 50-mile race last year. ``Teach them how to do it, and we will all, as a society, benefit from it.'' Levine's news came a day after a state audit reported on the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's ``dismal'' performance in providing physical education to students. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the California Department of Education's Coordinated Compliance Review, the district failed to meet seven of eight requirements, and more than half of high school freshmen didn't even take a state-mandated fitness test. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Board of Education member Jon Lauritzen, a runner himself, agreed that the report's results ``are not tolerable.'' ``The board has taken a very active role in working on the nutrition part,'' Lauritzen said, by banning soft drinks and junk food junk food n. Any of various prepackaged snack foods high in calories but low in nutritional value. junk food from schools. ``But we have not picked up the gauntlet on physical fitness.'' Under challenge rules, schools with at least 50 participants are eligible to receive money for physical-fitness programs; the elementary and middle schools with the highest percentages of participants will be given special prizes. Elementary-school students will be given an eight-week educational manual. Last year, more than 1,000 children and their parents participated, and Woodlake Elementary, Columbus Middle School and El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as "ECR" and by some more recently as "ELCO") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. each received $2,500 for having the highest percentages of participants. Sponsors of the Fitness Challenge include Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. ; Wells Fargo Bank; Westfield Shoppingtowns, Topanga and Promenade; Chick's Sporting Goods; the Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers ; Woodland Hills Hilton; Warner Center Marriott; California Credit Union; LA Sports Kids; and the Fitness Challenge Foundation. For more information or to enter, visit the Web site at www.fitnesschallengeinfo.com. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Assemblyman Lloyd Levine speaks at a news conference Friday on plans for the next Kids Fitness Challenge. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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