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Final Active Living walk of the summer planned for Tuesday
The Pipestone Active Living Partnership is co-sponsoring one last summer walking event Tuesday night from 4-7:30 p.m.
The event will be staged at the Minnesota West Technical and Community College. Walkers will stroll down Hiawatha along the Monument Drive to the Pipestone National Monument Interpretive Center. Participants walking with strollers or kids on bikes will be able to do the circle driveway and return to the Pipestone campus by the same route. Anyone on foot who wants a more challenging route can hoof it cross-country on a foot path that travels north from the Monument Interpretive Center through the DNR wildlife area to the gravel road (121st St.) and then east to the college campus. Both routes are approximately three miles in length so walkers will get in about 10,000 steps.
Cosponsoring the event are the Minnesota West Technical and Community College, JB Group/Ellison Meats, The Pipestone National Monument and Friends of the Monument and Blue Cross Blue Shield Prevention of Minnesota.
Minnesota West students are offering free Blood Pressure and Oxygenation tests before and after the walk and free chair massages; JB Group/Ellison Meats has donated beef for pulled beef sandwiches and The National Monument Interpretive Center will be open to all walkers who wish to tour the building and walk the trail.
At the Interpretive Center walkers will also receive a ticket good for a pulled beef sandwich and door prize drawings for annual passes to the National Monument, "Do" Stocking caps and socks and Partnership safety backpacks.
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