Calabash Elementary Wins Fitness Grant
Project Fit America, a nationwide organization working to improve the physical fitness of children, awarded Calabash Elementary school a $12,800 grant to install new playground fitness equipment.
Funding for the grant was provided by West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, a hospital representative said.
The new equipment consists of seven stations, including a climbing pole, parallel bars, horizontal ladder, vault bar, pull-up bars, sit-up station and step-up station.
Installation is scheduled for late this summer.
Health experts have reported that childhood obesity has more than doubled during the last 30 years, and that 40% of children ages 5 to 8 show one or more factors leading to heart disease.
Project Fit America, a nonprofit group organized in 1990, works with community businesses and industry to donate such equipment to elementary schools throughout the United States.
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