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Some of the happiest, most liberated people I know ride bikes. For fun. For exercise. For transportation. They get to experience the lambent air at twilight, find just the right parking place, ride under a canopy of trees and clouds. I know. I know. It’s dangerous. Drivers are unconscious. They’re scatterbrained. Their heads (and their eyes) are on their screens. They’re in a hurry. In their bubble of a vehicle, they think the world belongs to them.
Our grand and glorious city leaders don’t help. Their minds are elsewhere, too. They talk a good game but when it comes to transportation and budgets it’s mostly about cars and trucks and road repair and SPLOST, that mysterious special purpose local option sales tax. City Council spends more time on liquor license renewals than the needs of ordinary human beings; at least that’s what I see when I tune into the city’s government channel.
“Good morning, Armand Turner with Healthy Savannah… Today we are on the Truman Linear Park Trail. We did a little bit of exploring earlier, we’re probably over about two miles. It’s a little rainy today but not too bad…”
For nearly a year, Turner has been leading Healthy Walks on trails throughout the Hostess City and sharing his weekly adventures on Facebook Live. Each Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. rain, shine, heat, or cold Turner and his team put in the miles one step at a time to encourage community members to get out walking.
The next Healthy Walk is Tuesday, March 16, at 9 a.m. at the Oatland Island Wildlife Center. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Many within our Black community suffer from chronic sicknesses, like diabetes and heart disease. This is no surprise when so much of the neighborhoods where those Black people live lack sidewalks or any other safe means to travel without an automobile.
Our team working with the Racial & Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Grant is focused on improving the health and increasing the needed resources for Chatham County s low-wealth Black population. We can do this because the grant is awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the partnership of the YMCA of Coastal Georgia and Healthy Savannah. It is a five-year grant, originally awarded in 2019 for $3.4 million. We are in year three of the grant.
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