You may not believe it from all the Tsunami coverage...

But there's other stuff going on around the world. Right here, in the Monterey Peninsula, hundreds of physical health educators are gathered for the annual conference of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. They're on site to learn the latest on physical education and how to keep kids active in this age of budget cuts.

Two local schools (King City Charter in King City and Learning for Life Charter in Marina) received $1,000 each as a Front Runner in the Governor’s Challenge. The Governor’s Challenge Competition is a statewide fitness contest among K-12 schools that promotes increased physical activity and better health among California’s youth. The competition’s three grand prizes—brand new fitness activity centers for the winning elementary school, middle school and high school—and eleven regional awards of $6,000 of physical activity equipment will be awarded to schools that succeed in getting students and teachers to be physically active 30-60 minutes a day, at least three days a week for at least four weeks.

In town were also California chief of schools Tom Torlakson and U.S Surgeon General Regina Benjamin to speak about childhood obesity.