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Community can get a sneak peek of Oswegoland Park District’s new Ogden Point recreation center · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Community can get a sneak peak of Oswegolan Park District's
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  Speaker 1: new Ogden Point Recreation Center. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. The community will have the chance to
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  Speaker 1: get a sneak peak of Oswegolan Park District's new Ogden
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  Speaker 1: Point Recreation Center before it opens its doors next month.
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  Speaker 1: Tours of the facility at two zero one Ogden Falls
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard will be given during community previews from ten am
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  Speaker 1: to noon August twenty ninth, and from five to seven
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  Speaker 1: pm September first. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony
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  Speaker 1: at five thirty pm. Ogden Point is set to open
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  Speaker 1: its doors September eighth. Those using the indoor recreation and
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  Speaker 1: aquatic programming facility will not have to pay a membership fee.
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  Speaker 1: This approach allows residents to participate in activities without the
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  Speaker 1: commitment of a monthly membership, the district said in recently
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  Speaker 1: updating the community about the new facility. Last year, the
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  Speaker 1: Oswegoln Park District announced it had acquired the long vacante
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  Speaker 1: Esport of Fitness Center at two zero one Ogden Falls
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard along US Route thirty four in Oswego in order
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  Speaker 1: to expand its indoor recreational and aquatic programming, including the
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  Speaker 1: district's first indoor swimming pool. Plans are for the building
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  Speaker 1: to open for athletics programs, fitness classes, and gym rentals
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  Speaker 1: in September. Aquatics programming would begin in winter twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The facility will offer recreation programs that require registration, schedule
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  Speaker 1: drop in sports times, swim lessons, and aquatic classes, community
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  Speaker 1: rentals for athletic and meeting spaces. Ogden Point will have
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  Speaker 1: three multipurpose gyms, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, five racquetball courts, a
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  Speaker 1: spin room, a group fitness room, a four lane lap pool,
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  Speaker 1: and a multipurpose room. Esport of Fitness closed its doors
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  Speaker 1: on October sixteenth, twenty two. LA Fitness operates a sport
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  Speaker 1: of fitness centers. The building was built in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight. The Park District bought the forty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: square foot building for two point five million dollars. The
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  Speaker 1: project is being funded through the district's accumulated resources and
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  Speaker 1: non referendum bonding authority. The district has been working to
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  Speaker 1: improve the building. The facility had been closed for a
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  Speaker 1: number of years and the regular maintenance and security of
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  Speaker 1: the facility was not kept up very well. Oswegolan Park
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  Speaker 1: District Executive Director Chad Faldado had previously said in talking
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  Speaker 1: about the improvements being made to the facility. Currently, the
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  Speaker 1: park district operates two outdoor pools, the Civic Center Aquatic
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  Speaker 1: Pool and Windrock Pool. The district has an about thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight square mile service area, including all of the village
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  Speaker 1: of Oswego, parts of Montgomery, Aurora, and Plainfield, and all
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  Speaker 1: of Boulder Hill