Walk the walk

This post is meant to match up with our walking project that will be on the cover of this Sunday's Forum.

Basically this Memorial Day to Labor Day project has three objectives:

1--Get the editorial board out into the community at the ground level. We're going to come to you, and you can talk to us about anything that's on your mind, as long as you do it while we're walking. If you have something going on in your part of the region you want us to come walk and talk about put a comment on this post.

2--Get off your hind ends and get some healthy exercise. The number of overweight kids in this country has more than doubled since 1987 (the 1987 fat kids are now very likely fat adults). This has all kinds of negative health ramifications for society in general and the best way to deal with it is to get moving. So take our pledge to walk at least 2 miles a day for the 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Again--you can comment here or send us an email at letters@enquirer.com. We want to know who you are, how to get in touch with you and where you walk. We would prefer you keep walking after Labor Day, but hey, 200 is a round number and...

3--...it coincides roughly with the distance from Frankfort, Ky. to Columbus, Ohio, homes of our state legislatures. Those bodies need to get busy and create a health and fitness curriculum for schools in Ohio, which has none, and a stronger one for Kentucky, which has a weak one. Kentucky's governor is a doctor who knows the importance of such a move. He should make it a campaign pledge. Ohio legislators need to tell the state department of education to stop being so afraid of sex education that they refuse to deal with health education in any form. We'll be talking to the legislators and talking to you about talking to the legislators and they should take your pledges to hoof 200 miles this summer as symbolic of your willingness to march on the capitols to urge this action.