Healthy Families BC - Walking Challenge

Are you walking, running or cycling the trails around Rossland? 

Our community is competing in the Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge,which has individuals and communities across BC competing for great prizes by sharing favourite walking tips and mapping the best local routes.  

From Monday, Aug.8 until Monday, Sept.19, we are competing against other communities in the smallest population category.  The top community in our category, could win up to $60,000.00  towards a new trail in Rossland!!  

It’s easy to get started! 

Log on to www.healthyfamiliesbcwalkingchallenge.ca  and then click on the “Find Your Community” button. Click on the letter “R” and then

select Rossland. Click on the “Create an Entry” button. Fill in the information about your favourite trail or a walk you’ve recently enjoyed and then check the “I have read and agreed to….” button before clicking the “Submit my   Entry” button. Each time you “create an entry”, it counts as an entry in the draw, for both the individual who entered and the community the walk is associated with.

In each week of the contest, over 30 prizes from a random draw of participants who have entered at least one story, video, photograph or  walking map onto the contest website will be awarded a prize. Over 200 prizes will be awarded, including bicycles, one-year family memberships to l ocal recreation centres, and trips to exciting vacation destinations across BC. Your chances are better, the more stories you submit!

As an added incentive to participate, the Recreation Department also has prizesto distribute – including pedometers, t-shirts, wallets and water bottles. If you use the same name to register each entry, we’ll award a weekly prize to the individual who has posted the most entries.  We’ll keep the community updated and announce the winner each week in the Rossland News.