Handsel Art
PRESS RELEASE
Date: 23 March 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: J.R. Few at
(870) 427-1365 or email
handselart@marioncounty.com
It’s Your Body!
Volunteer Janet Hood shares the lesson from Hardy
Heart during the University of Arkansas
Cooperative Extensions Body Walk at the Marion
County Fairgrounds last week. 3rd and 4th grade students
from Bruno-Pyatt, Yellville-Summit, and Flippin
enjoyed the interactive tour through the 30-foot by 36-foot walk-through 
exhibit
representing the human body. Students
tour the exhibit with OrganWise Guys like Windy the
Lungs and Hardy Heart helping kids understand healthy lifestyle choices and to “Be
smart from the inside out.”
Tobacco-Free
Marion County
was a principle supporter for the Body walk this year. TFMC coordinator Julie Andersen (Windy the
Lungs) notes that, “Children need to appreciate just how the body works to
understand why tobacco is linked to so much chronic disease. The Body Walk is something kids will remember
as reasons to refuse tobacco in a society way too accepting of the preventable
illness and death from tobacco.”
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