Active Southern West Virginia takes great pride in its Community Captains. We strongly believe that without them our mission would be impossible. They are dedicated to making their communities a happier, healthier, and an altogether brighter place to live. We are forever grateful for their service and passion for creating free opportunities for their community members to participate in. This month are highlighting Hinton Community Captain Kim Berry to both show appreciation for her service and to showcase a little bit of her story. We hope it will resonate with some of our readers and motivate them to start their journey toward a healthy and active lifestyle change.
Kim dedicated herself to a habit of being physically active three days a week for 2016 at the turn of the New Year so that she could perform optimally at work. She then decided to be a Community Captain with Active Southern West Virginia in an effort to extend that opportunity and motivate the people of Hinton to adopt the same lifestyle change.
She is the manager at Otter and Oak in Hinton and has her hand in a lot of things so when the hustle and bustle makes it challenging to get to the gym she does at home workouts or makes sure she gets extra steps in during her day at work.
Kim’s advice for anyone who may be interested in volunteering as a Community Captain is, “It can seem daunting to lead a group in your area or even to be more physically active at first, but I find that getting out there with a like-minded group of folks is just as addictive as popping open a can of Pringles, once you start you aren’t going to want to stop.”
Kim leads the Hinton Walking Group every Saturday at 10 starting from and ending at Otter & Oak. Anyone is welcome (especially beginners) to join the group at any time and encouraged to bring a friend! Keep up with the Active Southern West Virginia Bulletin Board Facebook group for updates/cancellations.
You can also stay connected with us by liking our main Facebook page Active Southern West Virginia, keeping up with our Events Calendar at activeswv.org, and following us on Twitter & Instagram (@activeswv).
We are so excited to have Kim on our team and are still recruiting Community Captains in the communities of Jumping Branch, Pipestem, Forrest Hill, Meadow Creek, Nimitz, Pence Springs, and all points in between! Contact us at [email protected] or 304-254-8488 to get started!
