Communities instigate weight loss challenge

Courtesy Forty six Hildreth-area residents weigh in July 4 at the Cooperative Producers Incorporated elevator scale in Hildreth. They are part of a weight loss challenge that includes four towns and 175 participants.

Tony Herrman
therrman@hastingstribune.com
HILDRETH — When local residents celebrate their town’s 125th anniversary here next summer they will also be celebrating a year of weight loss.
The town instigated a weight-loss challenge, in which 73 Hildreth residents are participating. The challenge pits Hildreth against Franklin, Wilcox and Upland.
Between the four towns, 175 people are participating in the challenge.
Primarily using the scale at local grain elevators by stepping on as a group, participants weighed in between June 30 and July 7. The competition will end June 30, 2011, in time for the Hildreth quasquicentennial a few days later.
The four towns had a collective average of 204.87 pounds.
The Hildreth average was 210.93 pounds, Upland was 210.88, Franklin was 203.03 and Wilcox was 202.58.
For more information, contact Schoone at 308-938-3082.