Hoover's nine-week, citywide effort to get healthy sped to an end Saturday with a 5k run at Veterans Park on Valleydale Road. Seventy-five people participated in the run.
You can't have a summer barbecue or potluck without pasta salad. Unfortunately, the typical version isn't all that healthy - white pasta swimming in a heavy mayonnaise-based dressing. Occasionally, there are token bits of celery or carrot, but nothing to get a nutritionist excited.
The 6-year-olds dropped their corn and bran muffins and raised their hands to applaud when it was announced last Thursday that their school, Forest Avenue Elementary School in Glen Ridge, would be among 12 to receive grants to fight childhood obesity and promote healthy eating.
