Perhaps the biggest overall achievement of the Vitality Project, according to city manager Victoria Simonsen, has been "a new sense of connection in our town, a mutual support system that we didn't have before." – Photo by Kevin J. Miyazaki/Redux
Dan Buettner
– Photo by Gianluca Colla
Daily Dispatch: Stay Motivated
The Vitality Project came to its official end on Tuesday evening with a public celebration of its successes. Here are a some of them: 2,300 people officially participated; a walking/biking trail was completed around Fountain Lake; thousands of feet of sidewalk were added; hundreds of kids walked to school in walking school buses and more than 600 citizens joined the walking groups, called moais; nearly a thousand Albert Leans took part in purpose workshops; and two-thirds of locally owned restaurants added longevity-promoting foods to their menus.
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AARP and Blue Zones went to Albert Lea, Minnesota, with a goal of adding two years of healthy life to each participant in the Vitality
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