by Staff Admin | Dec 13, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, News
Community Partners traveled to Kearney Clinic and UNK’s Market@27th to give people a chance to ride Activate Buffalo County’s bike blender. The bike blender was built by the Bike Shed as part of the coalition’s Safe Routes to School program and is the ultimate...
by Staff Admin | Nov 5, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, High-Impact Prevention Services, News
Red Ribbon Week Brings Drug-Free Presentations to Schools During Red Ribbon Week, Positive Pressure and Kearney/Holdredge Elks Lodge #984 visited Northeast, Glenwood, Amherst, Emerson, Gibbon, and Shelton Elementary schools to give presentations on staying drug-free....
by Staff Admin | Oct 20, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, News
International Walk to School Day was October 8, and Activate Buffalo County, through Safe Routes to School, helped four schools host events to celebrate the occasion. Walkers, cyclists, pets, and all types of pedestrians filled the sidewalks in the chilly morning. The...
by Staff Admin | Aug 24, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, News
Lace the kids’ shoes and grease the chains on their bikes because International Walk (and Bike) to School Day is Wednesday, October 8! Activate Buffalo County will be promoting the day and hopes to see a larger turnout than they did in May, where 80% of students at...
by Staff Admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, News
In March, Activate Buffalo County, as part of its Safe Routes to School grant, conducted parent surveys at several Buffalo County schools. The surveys focused on how many students walked or biked to school, how often they did so, and what barriers students faced, such...
by Staff Admin | Jul 6, 2014 | Active Living & Healthy Eating, News
We want to thank everyone who attended our Community Building Block Party and made it an amazing event! We also want to thank our sponsors and partners: CrossFit Archway First National Bank Frontier Communications Good Samaritan Hospital Grace Fellowship Holy Cross...