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What’s News by Cindy Loechler, SNA-WI President

Governor’s School Health Award
Governor Jim Doyle and State Superintendent Burmaster have initiated the Governor's School Health Award (www.schoolhealthaward.wi.gov) recognizing and celebrating schools that support and promote healthy eating; physical activity; alcohol-, tobacco-, and drug-free lifestyles; and parental and community involvement. The goal of this award is to motivate and empower all Wisconsin schools to develop the policies, programs, and the infrastructure to create and maintain healthy school environments.

Is your school is interested in the program and applying? Here are some questions to ask about your school.

Does your school:
• promote healthy nutritional choices?
• get students active?
• have policies in place that address staff and student wellness?
• have a committee that oversees wellness efforts in your school?
• prevent alcohol, tobacco, and drug use?
• actively involve parents?

As you reflect on and answer these questions, consider applying for the Governor's School Health Awards

All schools applying for and/or receiving an award will be personally recognized by Governor Doyle and the State Superintendent. There are three levels of awards: a wall plaque with a commendation from the
Governor and State Superintendent (bronze school), a wall banner suitable to hang outdoors (silver school), and a gold star plaque for your school's sidewalk (gold school).

Sponsors of the Governor's School Health Award include the Governor's Office, Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health, Department of Public Instruction, Department of Health and Family Services, and WEATrust.

For more information on how to apply go to www.schoolhealthaward.wi.gov.

Caution Required When Opening E-mails

Recently numerous e-mail accounts have been flooded with viruses and worms. Many of these e-mails may appear to come from legitimate e-mail addresses of people or businesses. That is because these new viruses use a technique called spoofing. Spoofing allows the viruses to fool users into thinking the e-mail is from someone they actually know.

Some individuals have contacted SNA-Wisconsin about messages that appear to come from a legitimate SNA-Wisconsin e-mail address. The ONLY SNA-Wisconsin email address that you will ever get anything legit from is info@sna-wi.org. An email with anything else before the domain SNA-Wisconsin.org is not from our office. Although these e-mails appear to be from SNA-Wisconsin, they are not. The e-mail messages are harmless, but the attachments contain viruses. Do not open these attachments