Chelsea’s South School* participated in All Children Exercise Simultaneously 2011.  What is that, you ask as you don’t click that link?  Well, as that website proclaims, millions of kids get outside and exercise all at once “in a symbolic gesture of fitness and unity.”  For the benefit of all of us, I’m going to stifle all my natural sarcastic responses to such idealistically empty phrases and just say the kids enjoyed getting outside and burning off some energy for half an hour.  (I’m sure the teachers were glad to have the kids burn off some energy, too.)

*(Yes, I know it’s officially named South Meadows Elementary now, but when I was a kid it was just plain South School, and I didn’t approve the name change.  Does my stubbornness in adhering to old names mean I’m getting old?  Probably.  But it’s inevitable, so…why fight it?  Rabble rabble rabble.)

At the end of the half hour, local insurance agent Rick Eder presented a check to South Elementary principal Lisa Nickel and gym teacher Mike Bareis.