[Press Release] : Columbians start new year right at 'Happy New U' event

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Tery Donelson - (573) 268-8430, tldonelson at ccis.edu 

Columbians start new year right at 'Happy New U' event

COLUMBIA, MO (December 22, 2008) - The Mayor’s Council on Physical
Fitness and Health is hosting Columbia’s first annual “Happy New
U” fitness event. Held at Columbia’s Activity and Recreation
Center (ARC) from 9 a.m. - 11:50 a.m., this free community event will
have Columbia’s fitness experts conducting miniworkouts and
demonstrations to show the variety of exercise options that are
available in our city.

“Our goal with this event,” says Tery Donelson, chairman of the
Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Health, “is to help
Columbians get a jump start on New Year’s resolutions, get moving and
to stay moving longer by connecting them with local fitness options and
professionals that will be the best match for them.”

Classes or demonstrations offered at the event for adults will include
tai chi, Pilates, yoga, Jazzercise, Bosu, kick-boxing, fencing,
basketball, running, dodge ball and scooter soccer. Children will be
able to participate in fitness activities. The activities will be held
from 9:20 a.m to 9:50 a.m. and 11:20 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Participants
will register for the activities at the ARC beginning at 9 a.m. on Jan.
1 … all activities are free. Participants should come dressed “ready
to move!’

Fitness experts from the ARC, Columbia Jazzercise Center, Key Largo
Health and Fitness Gym, Wilson’s Gym and others will conduct classes
and demonstrations.

The highlight of the “Happy New U” event will be one for the
city’s record books! Promising lots of sweat, laughter, holiday
calories burned and photo opportunities, Columbians attending will
participate in “Columbia’s Largest Group Workout” at 10 a.m.

Mayor Darwin Hindman thinks this is a great way to start off 2009 on
the right foot, “I hope to be there and be part of it. Columbians who
attend will have just as much fun burning off the holiday calories as
they did putting them on.”

For more information, visit www.GoColumbiaMo.com and search: GoFitness

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