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Published in the Winona Daily News 05/6/2013 by By Samantha Luhmann Volunteering isn’t just a hobby for Winona resident Bill Wichmann. It’s a part of life. When he’s not giving tours at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, he’s likely at the Winona Senior Friendship Center socializing with longtime residents. When he’s not serving as a “book buddy” for Riverway Learning ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News 04/23/2013 by Samantha Luhmann Winona is filled with health and wellness opportunities. From rock climbing and gardening to meditation and fishing, there is likely an activity that will suit anyone’s needs. But what happens if you’re ready to get active and improve your health, but you don’t know where to start? Enter Live Well Winona. Live Well ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News, 04/11/2013 by Amy Pearson WAPS, Live Well Winona hold first community recipe contest — with students as voters — to add side dish to the public schools’ menus It was beans and barley over bow-tie noodles Wednesday at Winona Middle School. As part of a community recipe challenge, students taste-tested two dishes and then cast votes for their ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News, 02/25/2013 by Telsa Rodriquez Three, two, one. Go! The indoor triathlon participants began to pedal their exercise bikes. Winona resident Debbie Wessel-Wittenberg hung her head as she leaned on the front of the bike. Her wet hair — from her 10 minute swim just minutes before — swayed from side to side, followed by her silver cross necklace, which ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News, 2/22/2013 by By Tesla Rodriquez Dee Cipov exercises at least five days a week at the Winona YMCA. On Saturday she’ll be working out again, but this time for a cause that hits close to home. The 72-year-old Winona resident will participate in the Colors of Cancer Fitness Festival, which raises money for the Winona Health chemotherapy department — ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News 01/14/2013 by Andrew Sroka It’s that time of year again. The time of year to abandon New Year’s resolutions and aspirations. Turn them into a thing of the past. Hit the snooze button in the morning and get back under the covers when you’re supposed to be lacing up your running shoes for a break-of-dawn jog. Lisa Rudrud, fitness director at the ...

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Published in the Winon Daily news, 08/09/12 Whether religious faith leads to eternal life is a matter for theologians, but research and science have linked religious faith and observance to a longer life here on earth. The connection among spirituality, religious practice, health and longevity will be explored in a presentation this evening at the Winona County History Center. Jonathan D. ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News, 5/20/2012 With a strong warm breeze and temperatures reaching into the 90s, Saturday was a perfect day for bikers to take a spin around Winona’s West Lake — that is, after learning about bike safety and maintenance. During the Winona Rides kickoff event for National Bike Month — coordinated by Live Well Winona with the help of other local ...

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 Published in the Winona Post, 3/11/2012 Despite facts about the United States being one of the most unhealthy nations in the world, more and more Americans are putting down the burger and picking up a dumbbell. This ever increasing influx of fitness junkies in the states is prompting a lifestyle paradigm shift. People are eating healthier and exercising more. And with the help of Live Well ...

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Published in the Winona Daily News, 3/5/2012 The thought of being submerged in water had always been so frightening to Leslie Swartling that she’d never learned how to swim. Still, the 42-year-old couldn’t shake the thought that she’d someday like to be able to venture into the deep end of a pool. Now or never, she decided. The Winona Family YMCA member about two months ago ...

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