Davidson Parks & Recreation has a variety of new fitness programs among the offerings in its fall schedule, including Zumba, yoga, martial arts and a class called “Strengthen and Stretch” for those 16 and up. The class offerings include semi-private personal training, offered in cooperation with Snap Fitness, and “Tai Chi for the Living Room” with instructor Joe Martin.
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The Town of Davidson will host the XTERRA North Carolina 5 & 10 mile trail running races Sunday, Sept. 5, at 8:30 a.m., at Fisher Farm Park, off Shearers Road. It’s the first event of its kind here and is part of a series of trail runs around the southeast this summer and fall.

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By CATHRYN WESTRA
DavidsonNews.net

Updated Tuesday, Aug. 10
The southern U.S. is a “geographical hot spot” for HIV infection and North Carolina ranked 5th in the country in 2007 for the number of women with the disease. Perhaps it is no surprise then that there are many people in the region working toward eradicating the AIDS pandemic. Toward that end, two Davidson residents were at the XVIII International AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, last week: Paige Baker, the executive editor for AIDS.gov, and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner. In interviews this week they reflected on the proceedings, which they said offered hopeful developments and announcements in the field.

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Davidson Lands Conservancy will host its annual road race, the Run for Green, on Saturday, Sept. 18, featuring 5K, 10K and half-marathon races. The routes will all begin at the Davidson Village Green, and travel partly along the town’s public greenways.
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SOURCE: Cornelius parks & recreation
Cornelius PARC Department presents Sun Style Tai Chi for participants ages 18 and up. The 8-week session will be Mondays from 9:30 – 10:30am starting Aug. 23 and concluding Oct. 25, (no class on Sept. 6 and Oct. 11). All classes are held in the community room at Cornelius Town Hall, 21445 Catawba Avenue.

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Silly Bandz, those colorful and whimsical elastic bracelets that all the kids seem to be wearing, are the year’s big fad. One friend of ours event recently reported seeing a man with a full-arm tattoo – covered in Silly Bandz. And this spring we wrote about how some schools have banned the bands as a distraction. Now some are suggesting the wrist-choking bands could be a health risk for kids. Continue Reading

The weather forecasts for summer’s hot, steamy days usually come with an air-quality rating – “code yellow, code orange, etc.” But what does that really mean?

The federal Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other authorities have developed AIRNow, a website where you can get the latest air quality information and learn more about the system. Continue Reading

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Current cigarette use among high school students nationwide began to decline in the late 1990s, but the rate of decline slowed during 2003–2009, according to CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The report published Thursday, July 8, shows that since 2003, the rate of decline in current cigarette use slowed or leveled off for all of the racial/ethnic (white, Hispanic, and black) and gender subgroups except black female students, for which rates of current cigarette use showed no slowing or leveling off after 1999. Continue Reading

A pair of blood drives are scheduled in Davidson next week. Community Blood Center of the Carolinas and student Claire Lockman have organized a drive for Wednesday at the Old Cotton Mill. Then on Thursday, American Red Cross and Ben & Jerry’s will host a “Give a Pint, Get a Pint” blood Drive at the ice cream shop on Main Street.
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How nutritious are vitamin-enhanced bottled waters? Are they worth the extra money? Those questions were on the mind of Washington Post “Eat, Drink & Be Healthy” columnist Jennifer LaRue Huget this week.

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