Muskegon Selected for Site Visit as Final Selection

of Contestants for Way to Wellville Challenge Nears

Muskegon, MI – On August 5, members of the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup) will be in Muskegon to conduct a site visit and assess Muskegon’s potential as a competitor in the Way to Wellville Challenge. The Greater Muskegon area is one of ten communities nationwide under consideration.

Public Health – Muskegon County applied for the contest in support of 1 in 21, the multi-sector, community-wide effort of the Muskegon Rotary Club to make Muskegon County the #1 county in the state in the County Health Rankings (Muskegon currently ranks 67 out of 82).

Michigan, our great state. Whether we realize it or not, we really do have a great state.

Granted, we had an unusual winter this past year but then again, have you ever seen the grass and trees so green before? Even people returning from Florida this year have commented about everything being so green!

Despite all of the good things, I still hear people complain about it either being too cool, too cloudy, too hot, etc. To those people I say, maybe it’s time for you to move to a perfect climate, wherever that may be.

I love Michigan and all it has to offer. We have the Great Lakes, a treasure on their own. I used to have an older friend, Bill Hickey, who had apple orchards.

He told me, “You will never, ever find an apple as snappy when you bite into it as a Michigan apple in the fall, because of the Great Lakes.”