A free nutrition education program offered in Ohio for limited-resource adults with families. Participants have fun while they increase their food prep skills, learn new recipes and techniques.
Eating Smart Being Active for Adults
Eating Smart, Being Active focuses on simple messages related to food and nutrition and gives participants a chance to apply new information through interactive activities. A food sampling, small incentives, and physical activity are included with each of the nine lessons.
Lesson Topics:
Eating Smart, Being Active is an Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) curriculum for adults caring for children.
Lesson 1. Welcome to Eating Smart - Being Active
Families know what they will be learning throughout the series
Participants accurately complete the required entry forms
Knife safety skills
Lesson 2. Get Moving!
Families enjoy being active
Participants accurately complete the 24-hour food recall
Lesson 3. Plan, Shop, $ave
Families plan and shop for meals and snacks that are healthy and within their budget
Lesson 4. Fruits & Veggies: Half Your Plate
Families increase the amount and variety of fruits and vegetables they eat every day
Families make half their plates fruits and vegetables
Lesson 5. Make Half Your Grains Whole
Families choose at least half of their grains as whole grains
Lesson 6. Go Lean With Protein
Families choose lean protein foods and keep all their food safe to eat
Lesson 7. Build Strong Bones
Families get enough calcium from low-fat or non-fat dairy foods or other foods high in calcium
Lesson 8. Make A Change
Families limit foods high in fat, sugar, and salt
Lesson 9. Celebrate! Eat Smart & Be Active
Participants celebrate new knowledge and skills to make healthy food and activity choices
Participants accurately complete the required exit forms
In 1897, local public servant and storekeeper George Harsh willed $10,000 for “public library purposes.” The funds purchased nearly 10,000 volumes for Massillon’s first public library. Also in 1897, J.W. McClymonds announced his gift of an endowment of $20,000 for a library. The Russell sisters, Flora and Annie, who married the McClymonds brothers, donated the Nahum S. Russell home, located on Prospect Street (now Fourth Street NE), in memory of their parents. The McClymonds Public Library opened on January 1, 1899, and was funded by private subscriptions and an annual disbursement of city funds. In 1922, the McClymonds Public Library became the Massillon City School District Library and was now funded by tax revenue.
In 1930, Annie Steese Baldwin willed her home “as the site for a new public library.” Built around 1835, the brick home overlooking downtown Massillon from Hill Street (now Second Street NE) was first the residence of the city’s founder, James Duncan.
The current Massillon Public Library (Main Location), located at the corner of Lincoln Way East and Second Street NE, opened in 1937. Designed by Albrecht & Wilhelm and funded in part by a Works Progress Administration grant, the Duncan/Baldwin home was connected by a Jeffersonian portico and rotunda to a west wing Reading Room and Children’s Room. The Massillon Museum was also housed at this location until 1996 when it moved to its present location at 121 Lincoln Way East.
