Children's Enrichment Center to host walk

"Small Steps Count" is a six-week program sponsored by the Children's Enrichment Center as an effort to promote healthy lifestyles and bring awareness to child obesity.

Campus families can register for the six-week program through September 8. The cost to register is $5 and each family will receive a pedometer and T-shirts for each family member. Jessica Miranda-Bevier, program assistant at the Children's Enrichment Center, said steps will count toward the progress only when the entire family is walking. Grand Valley departments can participate as a family and contribute their prize, should they win, to the center.

Weekly totals will be tallied and the two families with the highest number of steps will receive $50 gift cards to purchase shoes for their child or children. An awareness walk to celebrate the end of the program will be held on October 23, beginning at 11:30 a.m., at the Kirkhof Center. For more information, contact the center at x15437.