New Nevada MO Community Trail grand opening | FourStatesHomepage

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More than 100 people came out for the new Nevada Community Trail ribbon cutting ceremony today at Nevada Middle School. This paved half mile trail is part of a strategy to enhance classroom learning and studies have shown a positive correlation between exercise, memory retention, and learning academic success among students. Students who arrive at school between seven-twenty am and seven-fifty am are eligible to walk laps on the trail. Alyson Harder/CEO at Heartland Behavioral Health and Vice President of Healthy Nevada: "But it's also a community event. It's a community trail a half mile paved ADA accessible community trail. So it's something that we're super excited about. Something that were very proud of. It's really going to help the health and the vitality of our entire community of both Nevada and Vernon County."

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New Nevada MO Community Trail grand opening | FourStatesHomepage

According Robert Johnson of PedNet, the designers of the trail, the complete $160,000 cost of building the trail was raised by local community members.

It goes to show how much communities across Missouri, from the largest to the smallest, want safe places to walk and bicycle in their communities. If Nevada--population 8100--can do it, so can *many* other communities across Missouri.

http://www.healthynevada.net/