DC Wellness Challenge - Durham College

Congratulations to all those that participated in the Durham College Wellness Challenge starting January 12th and ending April 2nd, 2015 (90 days). The winners of the challenge are:

Gold tier – 1st prize
• Lori Wilson, basket

Silver tier – 2nd prize
• Devon Turcotte, basket
• Brittany Robbescheuten, prize pack
• Angela Wood, prize pack

Bronze tier – 3rd prize
• Erin Rutherford-Brown, basket
• Tony Van Schyndel, prize pack
• Kyle Chapman, prize pack

The Wellness Challenge organizing committee would also like to congratulate the CICE Warriors for their active team participation over the past 90 days!

Way to go DC! It is great to see so many people “living well”!

Gang - due to low numbers, we are cancelling today's event in SSB 113A. However, the Staff and Culture Change committee will be drawing for prizes, and we will announce the winners here! You are ALL winners for participating in this 90 day challenge. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Hey challengers!!!!! Just want to remind you of tomorrow's celebration. Even if you only started a few weeks ago, you can still submit your tracking sheets to Jennifer Gibbs - [email protected]. And if you didn't finish the challenge - NO WORRIES!!! You started, and that counts!!! We will see you tomorrow in SSB 113A at 3 pm.

Congratulations to everyone that took part in the Durham College Wellness Challenge!

It has been great to see, for the past 90 days, staff members from around the college have participated in a variety of individual and team challenges including social, physical, intellectual, environmental and financial well-being.

We would like to invite those who participated to attend the Durham College Wellness Challenge Finale Celebration April 14 at 3 p.m. in the Student Services building (SSB), Room SSB113A.

During the celebration, we will draw the names of the winners. There will be first, second and third place gift baskets to be won as well as runner-up prizes.

Please remember to submit your tracking sheet as soon as possible to Jennifer Gibbs, manager, Employee Development and Wellness to [email protected] or by interoffice mail in order to be entered into the draws.

Hope to see you there!

Have you signed up for the Wellness Newsletter yet? Jennifer does a great job of pulling together monthly tips and ideas to keep our campus healthy. SHOUT OUT to Jennifer Gibbs for her excellent work! And that, friends, is your bonus challenge.

So teams - get together for a great meal!!!! What is 1 tip or challenge task that you will continue after the challenge is over? Share here!

And thanks to our friends at the Region of Durham Health Unit, you can get great ideas for healthy eating out.

https://www.durham.ca/departments/health/healthyWeights/menuforHealthyEatingOut.pdf

CHALLENGERS!!! Can you believe that this is our LAST WEEK????? You have done so well! This week, we want to hear from you. Please post your successes, progress, learning moments, etc. And, please submit your tracking sheets to Jennifer Gibbs at [email protected].

Your administrator really needs to start playing Luminosity to boost the memory!! Sorry about that - posting our final challenges this week now.

CELEBRATION TIME IS COMING......stay tuned!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

Kool & The Gang - Celebration Music video by Kool & The Gang performing Celebration. (C) 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group

Okay - fess up (you don't have to, actually :D) - how many of you have filed your tax return yet? If you're still working on it, you might find the following checklist to be helpful. Keeping your finances in check is integral to your overall wellness - so your bonus challenge this week is to find time to get those taxes in order!

http://www.cga-ontario.org/assets/file/CGAO_Tax-Checklist.pdf

www.cga-ontario.org

Oh teams......it's lunge week!!! Challenge one another to do 25 lunges this week. Here's a great video to follow on how to do a lunge correctly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJOP8pywFSY

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Yes, I know it's cold but the weather is supposed to warm up this week! So your individual challenge is to do something active 2 days/week with your spouse or a friend E.g. Go for a walk, take a Zumba class, weekend yard work, whatever you like! You can check other ideas for physical activity tips by looking at the website below - or viewing the physical activity pyramid.

Link to Winter Physical Activity Tips
http://www.durham.ca/health.asp?nr=/departments/health/physical_activity/winterActivity.htm&setFooter=/includes/health/paFooter.inc