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Did you know that the city of Lynchburg is going to lose weight? In fact, Lynchburg is going to lose 12 tons in 2012. Mayor Joan Foster challenged the city to go on a diet and this get healthy campaign keeps on growing.

Live Healthy Lynchburg is a year-long campaign. But, organizers want it to grow long-term. Lynchburg will hopefully become a city that values healthy food and exercise which lowers disease, improves the quality of life, and makes for a more productive workforce.

The campaign has been in the works since January.  The CDC granted Lynchburg $25,000 to get the city healthy. The money is being used to bring produce into low-income neighborhoods and create walk and bike friendly neighborhoods to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Can Lynchburg lose 12 tons in 12 months?

24,000 pounds! It is achievable when you look at the numbers and the population size in Lynchburg. It's less than a pound a person. It is easier to lose weight and exercise when you have help and friends doing it with you. So get everyone in your apartment in Lynchburg in on it too, as well as everyone at work. Lynchburg is losing weight.

If you're up for it, log on to www.livehealthylynchburg.com and you can track Lynchburg's weight loss.

It's all about your own choices. There's definitely stuff available to do in Lynchburg for people to have a healthful lifestyle. Health habits truly start with the individual.

It happens every year, after the holidays when mid-January rolls around. If you too are sitting around your apartment in Lynchburg and wondering “what can I do now?” here are some events taking place around Lynchburg this January.

Tuesday, Jan. 17

E.C. Glass High School’s production of the Tony Award-winning Children of a Lesser God will open at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Studio Theatre. Other performances are at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18-21. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors.

Lynchburg College’s Daura Gallery will host an opening reception at 4 p.m. for Aggregations. The exhibit features new work by Korean-based artist Kwang-Young Chun, who specializes in monumental sculptural installations; it will remain up through March 2.

Friday, Jan. 20

The exhibit Mirror of a Passing World: Ephemeral Places, Vanishing Spaces will open with a reception at 5 p.m. at The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. The exhibition is the being curated by six students from the museum’s first-ever Curatorial Seminar class.

Sweet Briar College will also open a new exhibit, This Green Earth: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, at 5 p.m. It will remain up through April 1.
 
Liberty University’s Department of Music and Humanities will present Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance at 7:30 p.m. in the Tower Theater. Other performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, 26, 27 and 28 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 22.

Lynchburg College will hold a lecture and concert, Voices in Peril: Music of the Holocaust, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sydnor Performance Hall.

Saturday, Jan. 21

The American Shakespeare Center will bring its production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the Academy of Fine Arts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and $13 for students.

Thursday, Jan. 26

The Foreigner will open at 7:30 p.m. at Jefferson Forest High School, with other performances at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 29.

Saturday, Jan. 28

Opera on the James will present Love Makes the World Go ‘Round, a concert of opera and Broadway tunes and more, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy of Fine Arts’ Warehouse Theatre. Another performance is set for 3 p.m. Jan. 29. All seats are $30.
 
Richmond-based band Blue Line Highway, who play a mix of blues, contemporary pop and traditional country, will perform at The Hamner Theater at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15, and reservations are recommended.

Appomattox Courthouse Theatre’s production of First Baptist of Ivy Gap, about a group of women planning their church’s 75th anniversary celebration and, later, its 100th, opens at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, 4, 10 and 11 and 2 p.m. Jan. 29 and Feb. 5. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors.

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