Mayor to cook healthy dishes at Downtown Market

Clarksville, TN – The next Mayor’s Fitness Council event will be Cooking with the Mayor at 9:00am August 27th at the Downtown Market.

Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan will discuss how to choose nourishing whole foods and incorporate them into delicious meals. The Mayor will assist guest Chef Samantha Maselli in a demonstration of how to prepare healthy dishes with some produce and ingredients acquired at the Downtown Market.

Local residents and visitors are invited to join Mayor McMillan and members of the Mayor’s Fitness Council for this tasty event. Cooking with the Mayor is the latest in the monthly series of fitness-related promotions in which the Mayor participates in various activities to help people begin or enhance their healthy lifestyle.

On September 22nd, the Fitness Council, which was established July 7th by City Council resolution, will meet for an organizational meeting at 5:30pm at William O. Beach Civic Hall at Veterans Plaza. The members will hear Mayor McMillan’s vision for the Council. Rick Canada, director of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity for the Tennessee Department of Health, will be the guest speaker.