Is it time to rethink your drink?

Too much sugar is bad for your teeth, and bad for your body. That's the message in the newest television ad sponsored by the Greater Portland Dental Society in cooperation with Let's Go!. View the ad at www.letsgo.org.

Thornton Academy High School students star in the ad that shows how much sugar teens often consume in a day. The ad focuses on the high sugar content in soda and energy drinks and highlights how quickly the amount of sugar consumed adds up over the day.

The television ad will air on WCSH6 throughout the months of September and October. Let's Go! is also highlighting sugar sweetened beverage information on their website at www.letsgo.org.
 
Click here for more information on how to reduce your consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and increase your consumption of low-fat milk and good-old water!

Trails Increase Physical Activity

With the help of some Let’s Go! Community Mini Grant Funds, residents of Falmouth, Freeport and Westbrook will be increasing their physical activity levels through the use of trails. Falmouth Conservation Corps continues to build and maintain local trails and increase volunteer participation in trail work. The Casco Bay Regional YMCA in Freeport's interactive family trail includes the StoryWalk concept. Finally, Prides Corner Elementary School in Westbrook, will be using their trail throughout the school year as a complement to their school health, physical education, science and language arts curricula. Trail building is a concrete and sustainable way to increase physical activity levels.

Let’s Go! is currently accepting mini grant proposals until October 1, 2009 at 5 pm. Click here to learn more about this opportunity.

Where in the Region is Redy?

Redy is a native Mainer and has lived in the Portland area all his life. He appears at events and locations throughout the state.             Can you guess where Redy is in this photo? Reply to this E-News with your answer. The first person to guess correctly will receive a jump rope.


Answer to our last E-News WitRIR?
2008 Beach to Beacon 10K.
Redy gives those of you who guessed correctly a big Red(y) thumbs-up!

Congratulations to our most recent Redy Award winner:                         AH! Asthma Health Program for promoting the 5-2-1-0 message above and beyond the call of duty. Thanks and congratulations! For more information on the Redy Awards and a list of recipients, click here...
 

Staff News

Let's Go! is pleased to announce the birth of Amelia Ellen Rines Feeley, born to Emily Rines and Tim Feeley on August 24, 2009. Our most heartfelt congratulations to the Rines Feeley family!