[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 86 (Friday, May 3, 2013)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 26223-26224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10752]


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                Proclamation 8970 of April 30, 2013

                
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2013

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Over the past 3 years, communities all across America 
                have joined First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! 
                initiative, which aims to help parents make healthy 
                choices and give our children a strong start. Today, 
                families have more of the tools and know-how they need 
                to embrace a healthy lifestyle. Kids and adults are 
                finding new ways to bring exercise into their daily 
                lives. And by getting active, our youngest generation 
                is not only improving their health, but also their 
                ability to learn and be successful later in life. 
                During National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, we 
                celebrate that progress and keep striving for more.

                To help more kids and families get moving and make 
                exercise a lifelong habit, we are working to create 
                more opportunities for physical activity--whether on 
                the playground, in the classroom, or at work. Through 
                Let's Move! and the President's Council on Fitness, 
                Sports, and Nutrition, we continue to advance that 
                mission by collaborating with partners in every corner 
                of our country--public and private, large and small, 
                national and neighborhood. Together, we are helping 
                cities, towns, and counties raise a healthier 
                generation of kids. And earlier this year, we built on 
                that work by launching a new program to bring physical 
                activity back to our schools. To learn more and join 
                in, visit www.LetsMove.gov and www.Fitness.gov.

                With simple steps, all of us can make physical activity 
                a way of life. This month, we recognize Americans who 
                are choosing that future for themselves and inspiring 
                others to do the same. We also take this opportunity to 
                renew the call to action. I encourage business, faith, 
                and community leaders to uphold physical activity as an 
                important way to enrich our neighborhoods. I call on 
                schools to make good health and exercise part of a good 
                education. And alongside our friends and family, let 
                each of us recommit to leading a healthy, active 
                lifestyle, and setting our children on the path to a 
                bright future.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim May 2013 as National 
                Physical Fitness and Sports Month. I call upon the 
                people of the United States to make daily physical 
                activity, sports participation, and good nutrition a 
                priority in their lives.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                seventh.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2013-10752
Filed 5-2-13; 11:15 am]
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