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Subject: Awards and Recognition News Release (HQ): EPA Awards
Communities
for Helping to Improve Quality of Life in Older Adults
Good Afternoon,
I want to share with you exciting news that on Friday, February 8th, we
announced the 2007 Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging Award
winners (See press release below). As a supporter of this awards
program, your organization has been extremely helpful in getting the
word out about this effort.
I encourage you to share the announcement among your members and
colleagues and hope you will be able to once again help us reach
communities that may be interested in applying for the recognition
program.
We are now accepting applications through September 12, 2008, for the
second year of this competition.
The awards booklet is also available on line
http://www.epa.gov/aging/bhc/awards/2007/index.html.
If you would like a copy mailed to you, please let me know. Again, thank
you
for all your help.
Sincerely, Kathy Sykes
Kathy Sykes, Senior Advisor, Aging Initiative
Office of Children's Health Protection
EPA (Mail Code 1107A)
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Room 2512N (Ariel Rios North)
Washington, D.C. 20460
(202) 564-3651
FAX (202) 564-2733
www.epa.gov/aging
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Awards and Recognition News
Release (HQ): EPA Awards
Communities for Helping to
Improve Quality of Life in Older
Adults
News for Release: Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA Awards Communities for Helping to Improve Quality of Life in Older
Adults
Contact: Shakeba Carter-Jenkins, (202) 564-4355 /
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(Washington, D.C. - Feb. 8, 2008) Seven winning communities and
government agencies from around the country are the recipients of the
first-ever new Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging award. This
program recognizes outstanding community planning and strategies that
support active aging and smart growth, thereby improving the quality of
life of older residents.
By adopting smart growth principles, communities can design places that
increase mobility and improve quality of life for older adults.
Pedestrian-friendly, level walkways also increase access to these
amenities and encourage older residents to walk to the doctor's office
or local stores. By providing a range of housing opportunities,
communities can enable residents to move within their neighborhood as
their housing needs change. Such life-long residents help to establish a
strong sense of place within a community. The benefits of building
healthy communities for active aging are being realized in communities
across the country.
Two categories of awards were made today. The Commitment Award
recognizes communities that have developed and begun to initiate a
specific plan to implement smart growth and active aging principles. The
Achievement Award will be given for overall excellence in building
healthy communities for active aging.
The 2007 Achievement Award winners are the Atlanta Regional Commission
(ARC) and the city of Kirkland, Wash. The awards will be accepted by
Chief of the Division of Aging Services for ARC Cathie Burger and by the
Deputy Mayor of the City of Kirkland Joan McBride.
The 2007 Achievement Award winners included:
. City of Rogers Adult Wellness Center, Arkansas
. Carver County Public Health, Carver County, Minnesota
. Town of Scarborough, Maine
. Queen Anne's County Housing and Community Development,
Maryland
. Brazos Valley Council of Governments, Texas
EPA's Aging Initiative program spearheads the multi-agency effort, which
was developed in partnership with the President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
National Council on Aging's Center for Healthy Aging, the National
Blueprint Office and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, through its
Active for Life program.
More information on each winner:
http://www.epa.gov/aging/bhc/awards/2007/index.html
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