RUMFORD — The Rumford Heart Walk organizers are accepting nominations for the 2010 Lifestyle Change Award that will be presented at the walk on Sunday, Sept. 19, at Hosmer Field.

The American Heart Association and the Rumford Heart Walk want to recognize people who have made positive changes to improve their quality of life and health: people who have begun a walking or exercise program, people who have altered their diet to more heart-healthy foods, people who have quit smoking.

Friends, co-workers or relatives can nominate positive role models for the Lifestyle Change Award. People may even nominate themselves. The nomination form can be found on the American Heart Association Web site at www.heart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3061637 or picked up at the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition on River Street.

Sandy Palmer, coalition’s Heart Walk team captain, is also collecting the completed forms for the Heart Walk Committee to review and vote on.

The nomination form is simple to fill out. It asks for the phone number and e-mail of the nominator and the nominee and details about the ways the nominee has changed his or her lifestyle. Deadline for submitting the form is one month prior to the walk, Thursday, Aug. 19.

To sign up to walk in the event, go to the Central and Western Maine Heart Walk Web site at centralmaineheartwalk.org and sign up to form a team, to walk with an existing team or to walk as an individual or family or call 369-1000 for more information.