Heart Matters Newsletter

In This Issue...

Recognition of Volunteers

High School Health Fair

SPAN Cookbook

The Second Great Labrador Participation Challenge

International Heart Health

Recognition of Volunteers

During April and May Community Volunteers were recognized for their contribution to Heart Health. Dr. Catherine Donovan, Dr. Kevin Hogan and Ms. Eva Laing visited NLHHP project sites and awarded certificates of appreciation to the many Heart Health Volunteers.

St. Barbe Heart Health Project Volunteers

Anna Allingham, Eliza Coombs, Caroline Allingham, Dororthy Maher, Linda Toope, Lilley Caines, and Gloria Toope

St. Mary's Heart Health Project Volunteers

Burt White, Betty Keilly, Patti Mitchell, Madonna Critch, Rosalind Philpott, Dan Daley

Roxanne Tobin, Bobbie Halleran, Janet Tobin, Kelly Power-Kean, Arelene White, Brenda Walsh

Dunfield Park Heart Health Project Volunteers

Janet Roberts, Marie Newman, Kevin Hogan, Violet Colson, Tracey Stewart, Debbie Herritt, Ruby Murphy, Willie Loder, Beverly White, Louise Hann, Nancy Cox and Michelle Hoyles.

Baine Harbour Heart Health Volunteers

Earl Reid, Colleen Byrant, Clyde Jackman, Helen Reid, Marion Kenway, Cindy Kenway, Mary Vater, Cyril Stewart, Julie Kenway, Lillian Barry King, Karen Kenway, John Byrant

Port Blandford Heart Health Volunteers

Bernie Weinheber, Lindsay Walsh, Marina Greene, Edith Matthews, Pauline Garrett, Reg Penney, Elsie Blackmore, Cathy Walsh, Donna Noseworthy, Geraldine Hann

High School Health Fair

This fair was based on the Science Fair model that most high schools engage in on an annual basis. St. Augustine's High School has an enrolment of approximately 240 students who come from the 16 communities in the area from Castor River to St. Barbe.

The big event which was held on February 16th and 17th in the gymnasium of the school.

Despite the unpleasant weather, there was an attendance of 526 at the fair which included students, teachers and residents from surrounding communities.

The were approximately 180 students who participated with 43 displays focusing on the risk factors for heart disease and how to reduce these factors.

The day also included healthy snacks, line dancing and active living videos, as well as a lifestyle clinic.

Door prizes included ski club and aerobic class memberships and fruit baskets which were donated by local businesses.

Competition winners received Heart Health t-shirts and hats. All participants received a Heart Health magnet and a certificate of participation.

According to response from teachers, students and the community residents, it is expected that this will be an annual event for St. Augustine's High School and hopefully will be initiated in other schools.

Many thanks from the St. Barbe Heart Health Project to all who helped make this event such a success.

The Second Great LABRADOR Participation Challenge

On May 31, 1995 all the communities in Labrador had the opportunity to promote Heart Health through the second annual Labrador Participation Challenge. The challenge was to obtain the highest community participation rate in fifteen minutes of physical activity during the day. Anybody living in a Labrador community could have participated and been counted in the challenge if they took part in at least fifteen minutes of physical activity. The physical activity could have been carried out in a group or individually. It could have been walking, cleaning up the garden, playing sports or any physical activity. The aim of the event was to just get people out engaging in physical activity.

The community of Charlottetown was the winner of the Challenge with a community participation rate of 97%. Congratulations Charlottetown on a job well done!

The communities in the top ten are as follows:

1. Charlottetown
2. Port Hope Simpson
3. Postville
4. Makkovik
5. West St. Modeste
6. Nain
7. North West River
8. Wabush
9. Churchill Falls
10. 10.Labrador City

International Heart Health Conference

1. Socioeconomic Differences in Cardiovascular Risk In Canada
2. Sustaining and Diffusing Community Control of CVD: The Newfoundland Experience
3. The Development of a Public Policy Guide to Support Heart Health: Newfoundland Experience
4. The Newfoundland and Labrador Heart Health Program