Eyewitness News Launches Upgrade Campaign, Starting Off At Civic Center

We're just a few months into the new year and there's always time to take better care of yourself, with your busy schedule getting the gym and eating three times a day may be difficult to do. Eyewitness News is teaming up with Upgrade, an initiative of the Welborn Baptist Foundation. These are easy tips or revisions to your everyday routine. Every week on Daybreak, Tabnie Dozier will bring you some suggestions and for the launch of this campaign we start at Evansville's Civic Center. Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke is getting behind the Upgrade campaign. What's one way to upgrade...taking steps instead of the elevator. "Someone gets on the elevator , I can almost get to the third floor by walking in the same amount of time," Winnecke shares. No gym, no weights, just steps.
"If you're in an office complex, it really doesn't take much more than a little personal commitment to carve out 5, 10, 15 minutes a day to make a little time for walking." Mayor Winnecke and Upgrade understand some are physically unable to to use the stairs, "There is one exception, a friend of ours who is in a motorized scooter, if he's coming or going, I ride the elevator up or down with him, other than that I take the steps." The River City has had an unfavorable light shed on it, a few years ago, a national survey ranked Evansville as the most obese city, "What a horrible distinction to have so if that's not reason enough to make a personal commitment in some fashion I don't know what is" Winnecke adds. Throughout your day, you're encouraged to take a quick stroll or hit a few steps, just one way to upgrade to a better you. Coming up on Eyewitness News First at Four, Denise Johnson, Executive Director of Evansville Parks and Rec will join Whitney Ray for a more in-depth conversation on ways to upgrade and how the city of is running alongside this initiative.