Four Peaks Rotary: Blue Zone Project for Fountain Hills
Blue Zones Personal Pledge ... Blue Zones Project® is a well-being improvement initiative designed to help make healthier choices easier.
Blue Zones Project is a well-being initiative that is brought to each community through the support of forward-thinking community sponsors. The value is improved well-being through healthier choices offered where people live, work, and play such as worksites, schools, grocery stores and restaurants. Because sponsors fund the project, there is no cost to individual citizens, organizations or the city. Projects are generally three to five years and are funded by multiple sponsors contributing to yearly investments in their community’s health.
Blue Zones Project has a unique relationship with each community, and funding models vary from state to state and community to community. From public funders, like Fountain Hills Health District, to public-private partnerships, Blue Zones Project sponsors are making an investment in community and individual well-being.
Self Promises: Start your journey today and make the following promises to your self:
- I will move naturally more often throughout the day.
- I will discover my purpose and renew my spirit.
- I will meet new friends who will help change my life for the better.
- I will eat more fruits and vegetables and be mindful of all else that I eat.
- I will take time for myself and find ways to relieve stress.
Power 9 Community Steering Committee Members
Pamela Lordi, Co-Chair, Project Manager
Alan Lordi, Co-Chair, Project Manger
Debbie Romano, FH Healthy Heartbeats, Heartbeat of FH Blue Zone
Julie Ewald, Wellness Committee Chair, Fundraising
Art Tolis, Wellness Commitee Co-Chair
Isabelle Roethe, Wellness Committee
Debbie Clason, Public Affairs/Communications
Jerry Holtzman, Director, Community Projects Co-Chair
Rachel Clausen, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach at Desert Health Management
Channing Dallstream, Community Member, Environmental Advocate
LuAnn Oburn, Community Member
Tina Duffy, Certified Health Coach, Brain Health, Community Member
Tania Brown
Plus many more.......
Interested or want to Learn More: Contact Debbie Romano
Community Partners
(Click on Logo to learn more about our partners)
Interested in partnering to achieve the goal for Fountain Hills, contact Julie Ewald, Debbie Romano, Pamela Lordi, Alan Lordi, Jill Keefe, Debbie Clason
Upcoming BLUE ZONE Events and Presentions Schedule
July-August
7/15- 8/15/2024 - Blue Zone 30-Day SUMMER Lifestyle and Environment Transformation "Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice."
- Join us on July 15th, 4:00pm for a live 1st week Zoom call overview to get started on the Blue Zone 4-week Challenge guided book. Also, uoin the Private FB group for tips, tricks and inspiration. Participation is encouraged for all. Remember, in life we are all teachers and we are are learners. We will conclude the 4 weeks on August 15th with a possible in-person fun celebration! To participate in this FUN 4-weeks contact Julie Ewald or Debbie Romano.
September:
9/7/24 - Blue Zone Hiking Club to begin.
- Join every first Saturday of the month, 7:30am (time will change in colder months) for a hike on the Overlook Trail. Deb R. will be there – all welcome (including pets).
- Opportunity to promote the concept of Moai from Okinawa, Japan BZ - “meeting for a common purpose and to support one another”.
- Gathering spot and promotion of Hiking Club TBD.
9/23/24 – Community Services Advisory Commission Meeting
- Presentation at Community Services Advisory Commission Meeting at Town Hall Chambers on Monday, September 23, at 5:00pm.
9/27-28/24 – Fountain Hills Oktoberfest
- Four Peaks Rotary Oktoberfest at Community Center September 27 and 28.
- FH Blue Initiative to possibly have table! Stay tuned!
October:
10/12/24 – Fountain Hills Community Health Walk 2024: Presented by the Chamber of Commerce Health Services Industry Stakeholders Group
- October 12, 2024 – FH BZ Initiative to have a table.
10/19/24 – Fountain Hills Make a Difference Day
- Four Peaks Rotary will be participating on Make a Difference Day with an environmental cleanup/set up project for the Boys and Girls Club Garden. Join Community Interactors, Rotarians and Community partners on the transformationanl environtment for our Youth!
- Additional details forthcoming. Debbie Romano will be assisting Four Peaks Rotary with a garden bed and pollinators.
- Volunteers are welcome to help!!
November:
11/2/24 – Fountain Hills Community Garden Annual Event
- FH Blue Zones Initiative will have a display to provide information, sign-up sheet on Blue Zones and to promote FH Health Fair in January.
- Deb Romano will create Blue Zone recipes and present at the cooking demonstration.
- Option for FH Blue Zones and/or Healthy Fountain Hills to donate items for Community Garden Silent Auction!
- Stay tuned....
January 2025:
1/25/2025 – Fountain Hills Community Health Fair
- Blue Zone Table. Please contact Debbie Clason, Clason Communications directly with questions. Stay tuned, further information will be available.
Join Us for A Summer 30-Day Lifestyle Refresh!
Let's have some summer FUN! Join Debbie Romano and Julie Ewald lead a 4-Week Challenge Summer Refresh to begin July 15, 2024 and conclude August 15, 2024 . Join July 15th Zoom meeting at 4:00pm (MST). Additional weekly zoom meetings to be determined.
The Blue Zones Challenge is a four-week guide and year-long sustainability program to jump-start your journey to better health, happiness, less stress, and a longer life.
Get started on the path to a longer, healthier, happier life with this quick start to building your own Blue Zones lifestyle. Dan Buettner, founder of Blue Zones and author of the New York Times number one best-selling Blue Zones Kitchen, offers the challenge of a lifetime: Build a foundation for better nutrition, more exercise, and a stronger social life that will extend your lifetime by years.
In this easy-to-implement guide, you’ll start with the rules of the Blue Zones Challenge, including tips and tricks from the five blue zones—locations around the world where people consistently live to 100—advice for setting up a successful kitchen and pantry, and resources for expanding your support network. Then, follow week-by-week prompts to change your diet, increase your activity, update your living spaces, and build your social life.
Reference: https://www.bluezones.com/books/blue-zones-challenge/
Additional details forthcoming. Any questions please contact Debbie Romano or Julie Ewald.
*Note the 1st Welcome Session will be recorded! Contact Debbie Romano at Fountain Hills Healthy Heartbeats for a copy.
2024 Planned Community Blue Zone Project
About Blue Zones®
Blue Zones employs evidence-based ways to help people live longer, better. The company's work is rooted in explorations and research done by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner in Blue Zones regions around the world, where people live extraordinarily long and/or happy lives. The original research and findings were released in Buettner's bestselling books The Blue Zones Solution, The Blue Zones of Happiness, The Blue Zones, Thrive, and Blue Zones Kitchen—all published by National Geographic books. Using original Blue Zones research, Blue Zones works with cities and counties to make healthy choices easier through permanent and semi-permanent changes to our human-made surroundings. Participating communities have experienced double-digit drops in obesity and tobacco use and have saved millions of dollars in healthcare costs. For more information, visit bluezones.com.
Fountain Hills Blue Zone Squad Presents at Fountain Hills RMS on June 27th
On June 27th, Debbie Romano, Alan Lordi and Julie Ewald present the Fountain Hills Community Project-Imagine. Raffle winner received a Blue Zone basket which included books, food and other healthy living essentials.
Thank you to Snap Fitness, Heather and Art Tolis in Fountain Hills for supporting Blue Zones for our community.
Join us on Thursday, May 30th for Blue Zone Steering Committee Meeting
Meeting to be held at the Fountain Hills Chamber of Commerce Building.
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 16837 E Palisades Blvd, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
Contact Julie Ewald or Debbie Romano for questions.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Julie Ewald and Debbie Romano advocate the positive effects of a healthy mind. Debbie shares effective health benefits for a pre and post work out at Fountain Hills Snap Fitness. Get your mind right, feed your mind, body and spirit right. Healthy Fountain Hills Facebook reel capture, click here. Thank you Clason Communications for the visit and highlight!
Julie Ewald and Debbie Ramano to present at the Fountain Hills Strategic Planning Advisory Commission (SPAC): JOIN US TO SUPPORT!
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Time: 4:00-5pm. We will have the floor around 4:15pm with a 20-minute presentation, plus time for Q&A.
Location: Fountain Hills Town Hall, 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains, in the Council Chambers.
All are welcome to attend. The room size and seating is vast.
Interested in the Blue Zones contact Julie Ewald, 708-267-5266
November Kicks-off the Club 4-Week Challenge
November brings on a club project! Four Peaks Health, Wellness and Well-being Committee introduces the Blue Zones Power 9 principles to members in efforts to incorporate more well-being action items to create a healthier environment for its members including serving nutritious food options at meetings and events, adding a one-minute stretch period and healthy dollars to the beginning of each meeting and creating a wellness workgroup to bring the Blue Zone philosophy to the community of Fountain Hills.
Blue Zones Project (BZP) is a community lead well-being initiative that encourages small changes that lead to healthier choices. The BZP team shares the Blue Zones Story, the life habits of the world’s healthiest, longest-lived people, as well as explaining the importance of our environment in how it impacts our health.
The November 4 week challenge consists of following the Power of 9 Principals. For the next four weeks members will work through the Dan Buettner 4-Week Challenge workbook, opportunity to participate in the zoom connect meetings available for members participating. All are welcome to join. Connect with a member on the Blue Zone Committee.
Art Tolis, Chair
Julie Ewald, Co-Chair
Debbie Romano, FH Healthy Heartbeats, Heartbeat of FH Blue Zone
