6/29/11 - Mayor Proclaims June 23rd to be Healthy Communities Through Healthy Eating Day
June 23rd, 2011- The Trust, Atlantic Philanthropies, and donors joined United Neighborhood Houses and the City of New York at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to honor the nonprofits and elders that have made the Healthy Communities through Healthy Food program a success. Below is the text of the proclamation presented to President Lorie Slutsky by Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs of the City Dept. for Aging Caryn Resnick.
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(Above) Elders participating in the Healthy Communities through Healthy Food program run a produce distribution project, work in community gardens, run a vegetable stand, and teach cooking and eating classes. See more photos>>
(Below) Trust Program Director Len McNally, President Lorie Slutsky, and Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs of the City Dept. for Aging Caryn Resnick. See more photos>>
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Office of the Mayor
CITY OF NEW YORK
Proclamation
Whereas:
As we strive to create a greener, healthier New York, we are proud to celebrate the local organizations that encourage the vitality of our city’s residents and promote the benefits of fresh and nutritious food. That is why we are so pleased to join the New York Community Trust, Atlantic Philanthropies, and United Neighborhood Houses in supporting “Healthy Communities Through Healthy Eating.” This program helps New York’s older residents use their skills, experience, and desire to contribute to their city and serve as models of healthy eating and cooking for younger community members.
Whereas:
Our administration is committed to expanding the availability of nutritious affordable food for all our residents. By increasing food support programs, promoting more fresh and healthy foods in bodegas, discouraging consumption of foods and beverages with high sodium or sugar content, banning trans fats in restaurants and expanding access to health food throughout the five boroughs, we are taking important steps toward building a healthier New York.
Whereas:
All across the City, “Healthy Communities Through Healthy Eating,” is helping older New Yorkers cultivate local food eating and growing. At the United Community Centers’ East New York Farm, older City residents are cultivating thousands of pounds of food; At the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project in Brooklyn, they are learning how to cook with fresh ingredients from their own farm stand and gardens; at Isabella Geriatric Center in northern Manhattan, they are managing a buyers club that supplies hundreds of families in Washington Heights and Inwood with affordable fresh food; at Bronx Works, Just Food, and Queens Community House, they will soon begin to plant gardens and open local farmers markets. These programs not only serve current City residents; they also will enable future generations to learn how to plant, and cook with delicious fruits and vegetables.
Now therefore, I, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, salute the growers of community gardens, the tillers of urban farms, the educators of healthy eating, the builders of local farmers markets, the managers of fresh food buyers club, and all the organizations and individuals involved in these projects, and do hereby proclaim, Thursday June 23rd, 2011 as
“Healthy Communities Through Healthy Eating Day”
Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor
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