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'Get Healthy' at Cobb Libraries

The Marietta Central Library will participate in a lifestyle lecture series that starts Saturday.

is launching an informative healthy-living campaign in 2012, called “Discover Your Health at the Library.” The goal of the campaign is to provide opportunities for residents to learn how they can have a healthier lifestyle.

The series begins Saturday with Amanda Timberlake of speaking about the benefits of exercise. That event begins at 2 p.m. at the Central Library branch, 266 Roswell Street, Marietta.

“The health challenges facing Cobb County are mainly preventable, and we’d like to highlight the resources available to help residents make healthy choices in 2012,” said library director Helen Poyer in a press release. “Our ‘Discover Your Health at the Library’ campaign is designed to do that.”

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Dawn Florence of the Cobb County Extension will talk about "Serving Up Healthy Habits" on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. at the East Cobb Library, 4880 Lower Roswell Road.

The series concludes on Saturday, March 3 at the Mountain View Regional Library. The will furnish a speaker on the topic of "Kids in the Kitchen" that also begins at 2 p.m. 

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The lecture series is free and is open to the public. For more information, please call (770) 528-7953.


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