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two you. It is eight twenty two on five COCHS the Voice of
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Charleston. I'm Jeff Jenkins. You heard the Peyton music. But the Peytons
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are in trial today, so neither Tom nor Harvey are with us today.
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But they've sent some able fill ins. They are not lawyers, okay,
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so we'll tell you that right from the beginning. But thanks for joining us
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this morning. Our number three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight
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three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight and in for Tom and
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Harvey are two folks with the Dumont Try County Y MCA in Tays Valley and
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where Tom serves as the president of the board there, and so he wanted
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these folks to fill in today to tell you, tell us about what's going
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on at the Try County Why MCA. So let me first introduce the Wellness
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director, Casey Harper. Casey, good morning, good morning, how are
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you. I'm good, How are you good? Good to see you.
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And the Youth programs director is Jared Belles. Jared, how you doing,
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buddy good? How are you doing? Good? Good to see you both
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this morning. And so let's get this out of the way. First of
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all, neither one of your lawyers is that true, completely correct, So
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they cannot answer any law questions, but they can answer a lot of other
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questions because a lot of exciting things are happening at the Dumont Trey County Y
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MCA. So we're going to talk about those over the next few minutes.
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And Tom and Harvey aren't here this morning. They're in trial actually in Cable
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County, so in its octs a very interesting trial, and Tom's referred to
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it a few times on the air, just you know, not a lot
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of details because you didn't want to do that before the trial started. But
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I'm sure by this time next week, if the trial's over, we'll be
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able to get some details on the trial. But they're you know, they're
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doing what they do, representing people and representing you. And of course their
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information is Peytonlawfirm dot com. Peyton Lawfirm dot com. If you have a
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question for Harvey or Tom or you can drop by the office first Avenue there
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in Nitro, not far from the Dairy Queen and their number at their office
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is seven fifty five fifty six three or four seven five five five five five
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six. We're going to talk about the do Mott tri County YMCA this morning,
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and let's start with Casey. She's the wellness director. So Casey,
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give us just a low down. And some people may know this, but
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maybe some people don't. We're exactly you are located and those type of things.
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So we are in tays Valley. If you get off of Scott Deepo
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exit and you come down, I think it's Tayes Valley Road road over by
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the movie theater. It's not the movie theater road, but it's very very
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close. I think it's a couple streets up from there. We actually have
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a new bright sign at the end of the road that says Dumont Track Honey
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YMCA lights up and then on the screen it tells you what we have going
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on currently and that type of thing, so you can't miss it now.
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Yeah, and it's a very busy place, right, it's not. You
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know, we're kidding around a little bit this morning because one of your first
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jobs there, you were the early morning person. Yes, for the people
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who set in their cars until the door's open so they can get on the
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treadmill else four forty five am shifting. Yeah, exactly. But there's so
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much more that goes on there, right, besides just treadmills running, and
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we have treadmills. We have we now have new stare masters. They came
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in last year. We got a lot of new cardio equipment. We have
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some rowers, a skier which is kind of popular in the CrossFit area of
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fitness. We got some new pre course selectorized machines that is in our wellness
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center. But then we also offer group fitness classes. We offer some aqua
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classes that are back in our pool area and okay, that's fine. Yeah,
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so let's talk about So you're the wellness director, so tell me what
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that what that means. So I am in charge of all of our anything
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wellness. So the fitness center where all the cardio weightlifting stuff is at.
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I'm in charge of the group fitness classes, so anywhere from pilates to yoga.
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We have a strength Trained Together class which is by Mosa, and then
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we offer Silver Sinkers, which is probably our most popular class with the senior
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citizens. It's probably my absolute favorite class to teach. We also have zoomba
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boot camps, that type of thing. So I'm in charge of all of
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that personal training. And then we have building supervisors who come in the evening
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when all the directors are gone, and I'm in charge of kind of supervising
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that, making sure that they're in on time and that they know how to
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do their jobs, and they even just to make sure our building is good
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and safe and running as smoothly as it can. So let's talk about just
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for a second then the like, So you have a large area, this
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kind of describe it like you have a large area where the fitness some of
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the fitness things are, and then you have individual kind of workout rooms made
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the wellness center. Yeah, so when you come into the building, it's
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off to the right and it's a pretty good sized area. We have all
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of our Selectorize equipment in there, all of our cardio equipment in there,
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all of our we have a cable tree that has all the cable attachments.
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We have a little freeway area, and then we have like a couple flat
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benches, a incline bench, two squad racks, and a smith machine.
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Because pretty busy in there certain times of the day, but it's a great
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place to work out comfortable, you know, everybody, family oriented, type
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of h type of place. And so then there are individual individual classes too
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throughout the day, right starting in the mornings. Starting in the morning.
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Our first class is at eight thirty on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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The eight thirty class is pilates on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The eight thirty classes
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yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays. We have a nine thirty class which is our
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step and strength So it's a little bit of a step workout and then a
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little bit of a strength with dumbbells and such on Wednesdays that are on Tuesdays
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and Thursday is Strength Trained Together, which is the most program that we go
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by, which is a lot of people will know it by group power,
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but at the YMCA, it is straight Trained Together. And then every day
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Monday through Friday, we have Silver Sneakers, which is our senior program.
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It is at eleven am and Monday through Thursday. It's a regular classic class,
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so you can get anything from cardio, a little bit of weight,
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it's a little bit of resistance training, a little bit of balance, a
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little bit of stretching and cloling down. And then Friday it is a just
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a Silver Sneaker's chair yoga and then Friday we have zoomba at nine thirty to
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ten thirty. Okay, so how do you get So these classes start every
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so often, how do you sign up? Do they last for a certain
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period of time then a new class starts. So our group fitness classes those
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were just the morning was. We have your evening ones as well, but
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our morning ones, all of those that I said this morning are that we're
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on the schedule are free for all members. If you're not a member,
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you can come in, drop in for a class, either do a guest
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pass, or you can get a class pass if you want to try it
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before you join anything like that. It is open for anybody. You don't
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have to have signed up for anything. They happen all the time. It's
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like a continual thing. If there's if like there's a holiday or some construction
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going on, we notify our members to let them know, like, hey,
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this is what's going on. I'm not going to have class today.
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But normally they're a staple and what we do every day at the YMC.
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Okay, yeah, we're going to talk about membership here in just a minute.
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But Casey Harper is a wellness director there. Jered Belles is the youth
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programs director. So that's a whole nother thing, right, Jared, Yes,
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tell me about that and just give me kind of an overall view of
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what you guys do with the children. Yeah, so, youth programs director,
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I'm basically the sports dude. I'm everything sports from youth and adult.
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Not only that, I'm also the assistant cam director in the summer, and
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I can get in a little bit of that stuff we've got going on there.
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But youth program director, like through the building and everything. I'm basically
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all the sports. So we've got basketball going on right now. We're actually
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last week got postponed because of all the snow we got, but first week
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of games are this weekend. We have basketball. We do soccer outdoor in
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the spring. In the fall, we do flag football in the spring in
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the fall, and then in October November we do indoor soccer inside of our
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gym. That one gets crazy. But not only that with the youth sports,
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we also offer a lot of adult sports right now. The biggest one
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is pickleball. Everybody loves pickleball. Yeah, we do that on Tuesdays,
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Thursdays, and Sundays about what twelve to four during the week, and then
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on Sundays they run about twelve to two eleven to two. That one is
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huge. I mean we get thirty or forty people in the gym at one
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time and they go at it. We also offer co ed volleyball. That's
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pretty big one. Right now, we're sitting about sixteen teams playing. That's
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a lot of the younger folk come in and do that. We play on
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Monday nights. They're being kind of a let me ask you this I jump
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in here. There being kind of resurgence in volleyball. Yeah, I really
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think so, just like in the area, there's been a lot of young
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people really get into it with the travel ball scene and everything. So once
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they graduate high school, there's no not really any adult leagues around here.
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We have a couple, there's a couple of church leagues that I have heard,
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but we've really exploded this especially this season. The fall season, we
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always struggle a little bit to get some people because of people playing and coaching
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in high schools. But once the season ends, I mean, it's all
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go very competitive. If that's like something you're looking for for a competitive league,
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we're really the place to come to because we've got some good athletes that
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come out. So do you find that? So I would imagine that some
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of these sports, so you know, kind of in the off season,
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like they're not playing with schools, I mean, you know, they can
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they can kind of continue at the y basically, right, And that's what
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we get a lot of in the spring is soccer is a fall sport.
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Football is a fall sport. So they'll come in in the spring and they'll
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come and you know, be able to train with using our facilities because we
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allow with each sport, we allow you guys to use our facilities to practice
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basketball. They're allowed one practice a week in the fall. In the spring
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with flag football and soccer, that we allow them to come and use our
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fields all the time. We have people using the facility non stop during the
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season and it's a great way to get your kid out there. If they
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are playing a middle school sport and then that middle school age we offer that
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we offer from five to thirteen years old, it is a perfect place for
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them to come get that off season training. But also if they're not ready
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to get to that step of middle school, you know, they're still in
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that elementary school age, our fall sports or our spring sports are perfect for
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them. Well and Casey talked about the facilities kind of the wellness works and
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talk about the facilities that you yep, yeah, so we you know,
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we have the gym, the basketball gym. It's a I mean, we
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have six basketball court, well hoops around there. We will run two volleyball
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courts for our league. And though you know during open gym, we offer
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a lot of open gym time during the year, well during the day,
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people just to come play pick up basketball. That's another big staple of ours
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is the pickup basketball scene is pretty crazy. There's some guys that come and
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it's not a league. It's that anybody can come do this. Uh,
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like Casey said, with the guest pass, you can just buy a guest
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pass, come in, play some basketball for a couple hours, and leave.
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We I know there's a big group in the mornings that come in pretty
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much every single morning. They'll play for an hour and a half, have
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some coffee in the lobby, and then head out. Yeah okay, oh
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yeah, yeah, it sounds like. And then obviously you have fields on
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the outside. Yeah, we have fields. We actually do them at our
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camp, our summer camp, which I'll talk about a little bit. Yeah,
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Campie Tour. We have two soccer fields out there. We run our
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flag football field out there. We also offer a Eleanor league for our soccer
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will. We play those at the the Putnam County Fairgrounds. Anybody's familiar with
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that, right on the other side of the river yep, other side the
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river, ye yep. And we actually have a full length soccer field over
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there that we allow our Eleanor players to come play up. Yeah, okay,
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so busy schedule, right, very busy, Yeah, versy schedule.
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is that Casey Harpers. He's a wellness director, Jared Bales. He's the
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youth programs director at the Dumont Tri County Y m C A. N.
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WCCHS the Voice of Charleston a special guest today in for the patents because they
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are in trial, and so they've invited folks from the Dumont Tre County YMCA
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and they are here with us. Casey Harper, the wellness director, Jared
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Bales, your programs director, and as you can tell, they are full
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of information here and and so we're going to ask Casey as we come back
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here. She mentioned it a couple of times. There's day passes, but
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there are also memberships and that memberships are really good because they offer so much
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and so talk about that, Casey. So with our memberships, you have
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the access to the entire building. There are certain programs like Jared Sports where
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you get a discount for what you're doing with that enrollment, but like you
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get to come to our classes for free, you get to come to our
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pool for free, use the basketball gym to play pick up basketball like Jared
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was talking about. But then like when we have Awqua arthritis classes, we
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have our sports, we have bootcamp classes that are an extra charge, but
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you do get a discounted rate with that, so you don't have to pay
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the full amount like everybody is supposed to do. And We do have a
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current deal that is going on now through January thirty first, so there's a
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little bit of time left. It is twenty five percent off the membership through
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the whole year of twenty twenty four, so then for a full year,
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once you get that membership, you'll have that twenty five percent off rate of
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what the original price would have been and then the joining fees only ten dollars
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instead of what it would have been before. So that's a good deal that
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we have going on. Yeah, they sounds like a good deal. So
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you got like next to next Wednesday, yes, to be able to do
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that. So, you know, and it's always a story that people talk
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about like New Year's you know, people signing up. Do you see a
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lot of your memberships, and we do. Our personal training comes up.
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More people come back to fitness classes, especially after Thanksgiving and Christmas and everybody's
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kind of like not watching what they're eating and enjoying time with the family,
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so they're like January first, everybody is ready to get back to it and
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get back to training with their trainer or come into Grip finness classes and that
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type of thing. So we are definitely seeing some numbers rise right now in
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our gym. Yeah, if you would talk about that a little bit,
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because there's some training going on too. You got some trainers have personal trainers
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talk about that. Do offer personal training, so we do offer half or
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hour sessions. We have about one, two, three four personal trainers at
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the Y. I'm one of them. We will work with you one on
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one. If there are certain health issues that you're dealing with, any specific
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injuries, we will work with you directly with those, and then just like
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trying to help you with whatever your goals are, whether it's losing weight,
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whether it's gaining muscle, everybody's goals are different. All you have to do
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is just pop into the Y, fill out a waiver. I'll contact you
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or sit you with one of our trainers, whether it be me or somebody
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else they run. Our members get thirty seven dollars for that and that's for
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an hour, and then for non members it's like I think around fifty seven
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dollars, so you do get a discount with that, and we are running
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a special it's ten percent off personal training until the end of February. So
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if that's something you're interested in, definitely come in get that. Get all
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the sessions that you want before that's ten percent goes away, and you can
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buy them in either one session, six sessions, or ten sessions, so
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you can stack them and save them and use them. And so you do
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some of that too, Yes, I do. Yeah, what do you
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like about that? I like working with people one on one. It's fun,
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you get to know them, you get to like really it's different than
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so like teaching classes, you are speaking to a lot of people all at
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once, and then like for me, sometimes I'll see one person I'll want
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to go over and be like, hey, can I help you with your
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form? Can like if I see them struggling, And it's hard to do
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that in a big group fitness setting, but whenever you're with somebody individually,
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you can really dial in on those certain things that they're having trouble with and
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they can ask you questions and then you can ask them questions as well,
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and like they'll ask me advice on stretching, and we can just like kind
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of spend as much time as we need specifically on what they need. So
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it's it's more personal. Yeah, personal training, So it's individualized. So
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for someone it may be you know, you know, they may focus on
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different things, right, maybe maybe the strength training or maybe the flexibilities you
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talked about. I have young ones that come in and they just want to
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like get strong and have fun and get fit. And then I have some
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that come in and they're hurting and they have their aches and their pains and
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they just kind of want to find something to help them feel better. And
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a lot of people don't know this, but strength training actually helps with so
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many things that you don't think about. You think, oh if I,
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if I squat is gonna hurt my knees, But squatting actually will help your
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knees. So doctor say, oh, yeah, squatting is bad for you,
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but in reality it's good for you to I mean, you have to
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like kind of go out at agro and pace, but strength training, squatting,
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those types of things are good for your body. How important is and
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you mentioned the silver sneakers is very popular, and I've heard this seems like
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I've heard it several times in the past couple of years about how important flexibility
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is to older people because if you got to stay moving, gotta stay flexible,
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all right, gotta stay moving. I tell them all the time,
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like, if you stop moving, you lose it. And it's so true
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even myself. The week of Thanksgiving, I was super sick, laid in
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bed, was lazy, and I have some back issues and I felt it
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after and when I came back to the gym, I started lifting again and
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my body felt better. I'm like, oh my gosh. Yeah, and
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I had to take a bitamone medicine. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well
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how did you just see this a personal question here? How did you get
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into it? So back? It was years ago. I was working at
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Starbucks and GENC. And when I was at gen C, I was I
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would try to learn as much as I could about supplements. So I'm like
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talking to people, I'm learning, I'm googling, I'm youtubing all that type
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of stuff. And my boyfriend actually was at work with me. He had
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brought me dinner and he's like, Casey, you know you'd be really good
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at us and I'm like, nah, I don't think I could do.
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I can't do personal training yeah, And he's like, no, like you
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really could. I'm like no. He goes, well, tell me why
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you can't do it, and then I'll leave you alone. And then I
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got into personal training got into I worked at a different gym and then I
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came over to the YMCA absolutely fell in love with the atmosphere. We'll have
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everybody I work with have great bosses, great atmosphere all together. And when
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I saw the opportunity for more with the will instructured position, I just pushed
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for it. And all hard work pays off. Yeah, and there's some
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personal satisfactions in there too, because you see folks improve, you see folks
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feel better, those type of things, right, Yeah, they're the silver
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sneakers. And then even like personal clients that I've had, like them telling
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you all, hey, I feel great now, like I was hurting,
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this is what's going on. I'm able to do this and I wasn't able
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to do it before, and then then thanking you and showing how much they
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appreciate is really it's it's something you can't even describe the feeling of you actually
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accomplishing what your dream job would be. How do people So if people want
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to become members, what's the easiest way to sign up for a membership?
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You can come in obviously, Yeah, so everything is backed up with paper,
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So we're still kind of in that stage, like everything's on paper.
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So coming into the Wide, anytime you come in that we're open, there's
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always somebody at the front desk and they can help you get set up with
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a membership, talk to you about different membership options. We do work with
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some insurance companies. It's like a kind of like a third party. Their
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insurance works with a third party and we work with them. So like there's
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the Silver Sinker's option, which is through Tivity Health. There's a Silver and
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Fit program, but then we also go through renew Active. There's so many
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different options. So the best thing for I tell everybody almost all the time,
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call your insurance, see if they pay for it. If they do
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pay a wellness option on some insurance. Yeah yeah, yeah, so I
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tell them all the time, contact your insurance, see what they'll pay for.
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If not, then this is what we have going on. If you
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know somebody that's already at the Wide, then we do a referral program,
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so you get a certain percentage off of your membership if you somebody refers you
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that type of thing. So there's always options, right, it's good.
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Okay, Yeah, this is a again Casey Harper well as director at the
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do my Try County y in Scott Depot. Also with us is Jared Bell's
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youth program direct Programs director and as he mentioned, a lot is going on.
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So let's talk to you about Jared about some improvements that are taking place
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not only there but in Scott Depot, but also some other facilities. Yeah.
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So out at Camp High Tour which on the assistant camp where is that?
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That is out in Tays Valley, So as you're coming in today's valley
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from Windfield, it's from the first light on the right. It's called Church
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Camp Road. We bought it back in the nineties. It used to be
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an old Baptist church camp. We made some renovations to it. It's been
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we've been open out there since I believe the first year was nineteen ninety six.
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So this will also be it'll be my sixth year at camp, my
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first year as the assistant camp director. If you've ever been doing the camp,
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you know some of the pool issues we've had, but good news we
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have are actually putting in a brand new pool. With that, we also
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have a splash pad for the kids. So this is an awesome opportunity for
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these kids to just I mean, it's a great opportunity for the kids just
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to come out there in the summer be a kid, and that I think
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that's my number one thing when I you know, I tell the staff out
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there, I always say, just let them be kids. It's their summertime.
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You know. I remember my core memories in the summertime were you know,
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playing outside, playing in the woods, doing all that stuff. And
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that's what we offer. I mean, this it's a true outdoor camp.
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The kids are rarely inside, maybe inside for thirty minutes to eat lunch.
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We have a I think we're it's a fifty six acre camp. So we
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have I mean an abundance of woods that the kids will go hiking in.
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They build forts. I mean, those kids, there's some future engineers out
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there because they'll build these crazy big forts and I'm like, how did you
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do that? And They're like, oh, we just put sticks together.
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But with that, you know, the renovations going on there. It's a
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new, brand new pool. It's gonna be as ro entry pull down to
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five feet. I believe it's gonna be. I mean, it's gonna beautiful.
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Okay, So those are so what's offer their day camp? Basically,
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we have a day camp out there. It runs from the first Monday that
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school ends in Putnam County and it goes until the last basically the last day
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of summer vacation. Okay, so that's a day camp. So I guess
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you have some kids, you're there all summer, some culture, just periods
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of time right now. You can literally if you want your kid to come,
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and it's five to seventeen ages five to seventeen. We offer a c
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program, which is a counselor in training for our high school students. The
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five too. About fourteen our campers in the camp. But if you want
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to sign your kid up the first day and say hey, I want them
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to go all summer, you can have them go all summer, pull them
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out whenever you want. If you want your kid to just come the last
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day of camp, you can do that too. We're very flexible with that.
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So, I mean it's a very flexible camp. Come when, please
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leave when you want. So how do you literally get there? Do they
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meet it at Scott Depot and you take it. You actually drop them off
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at the camp out at Church Camp Road. We'll have somebody at that sign
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out shelter. It's usually the same two people every time. So you actually,
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I mean the parents build relationships a lot with the with the parent,
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with the parents and our counselors because we see see them every single day going
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through the sign out line, sign in line. Tell me also, and
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again this is a Jared Bales, a youth programs director at the Dumont tre
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County Y m c A there in Scott Depot talking about some of their programs.
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So talk about you talked about the renovations there at the camps. What
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some other things that are happening at in Scott Depot. In the main facility,
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we have a lot of renovations going on right now. We're getting all
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the ceiling tile is being replaced, which is it's very small, but when
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you're in there all the time, it's it looks beautiful. We're doing that.
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We're getting new flooring, tile, floor all the way through the facility,
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a new paint on the walls, really just spicing up the facility that
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we have now and it's gonna absolutely look beautiful. That's good. Now.
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She talked to Casey talked about how a membership, So what's the best way
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if you're gonna sign your kid up for something or getting them, get them
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in one of the programs, or what's the best way you do it.
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So you can either come in like Casey said, come in, fill out
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of paper. But we also if you want, once the sport is open,
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typically you can check Facebook, you can come in and you know,
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just ask. You can call me at the main y facility phone and just
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ask, hey, what programs are you offering right now? You can go
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to our website at Tri County YMCA dot org and you know, sign them
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up that way. We have links everywhere, QR codes everywhere. Anywhere you
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see a post, there's typically a QR code to sign up. But that's
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the I think personally going online and signing up your kid for a sports the
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easiest way. M HM and Casey, you guys have pretty good Facebook page
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too, real we do. Yeah, we try to keep everybody updated.
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Try to if there's a snow day, because like when there's snow days,
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we can't we have our vacation. It's called a snow day. The kids
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that aren't in school are at our facility, so then that means like our
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group and this classes are canceled for the morning. So we keep everything pretty
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updated as much as we can if there's something going on, just like right
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now with our renovations, we've posted, Hey, this is what's going on.
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We have renovations going on. There's so much good stuff to look forward
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to. Just be patient with us. So we're keeping everybody updated as much
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as we can. We get phone calls daily. I have my senior years
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and people asking me every day, Hey, what's going on in the back
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hallway. So like we're constantly just getting all the information out as much as
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we can get. We'll talking about some of the renovations then on your part.
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So the biggest thing for us right now, we had two racketball rooms
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in our back hallway and they were not being used as much as we had
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wanted as pickaball. Picking up bracket ball is kind of like dropping off a
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little bit. So we are taking those two rooms and we are they knock
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the wall out in the middle of it, and we're making a big multipurpose
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room. So for me, that is gonna be so we can take some
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of the open gym time, give it back to the basketball players. We're
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gonna move a lot of the classes into that room. So we're gonna move
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our plates, yoga zoomba. All those types of classes, the bigger classes
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like silver Seekers and string training together will stay in the gym. But then
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we're also going to be adding a spin class, which is probably my absolute
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favorite, and then Jared will be able to do some more sports in there
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so that the open gym, all the basketball players will be able to have
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their open gym time because we have to share time and space. We are
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also renovating our locker rooms, getting new lockers, getting new plumbing, getting
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new toilets, sinks, all the type of stuff. M h okay,
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sounds like yeah, so very busy, yes, very busy, very busy
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as some jumping around, oh yeah right, yeah yeah, because of things
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that happening. It's a fifty three. This is five eighths the voice of
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Charleston Casey Harper Wellness director Jared Bell's youth programs director with the Dumont Tree County
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YMCA, with us filling in for the patents today who are actually in trial
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in Huntington in Cable County Circuit Court. We look forward to hearing about that
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next week. But Tommy is the president of the board at the YMCA,
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so he invited Casey and Jared in here today and to talk about some of
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the things are going on. As you can tell a ton a ton is
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going on. All right, So you talked about spin class. You like
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spin class, right, yeah, all right? So are you are you
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the one on one of your one on are you actually directing the class I
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will be teaching? Yes. So it was when I first started teaching and
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training. It was one of those classes I took and I was kind of
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forced into it at a different gym. It was like, oh hey,
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this is something that we need you to teach, and I took one of
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the classes. Absolutely fell in love. It absolutely whips me. But the
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adrenaline that you get from teaching and just like shouting out cues, it is
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so much fun. You get a great workout. Okay, so explain with
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spin classes. Some people might know, but some people. So you're on
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a stationary bike, right, pretty much pedaling, but you get to put
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your own spin on it. You can make them go faster, you make
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them go slower, you can. We have there's gonna be a dial to
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turn the resistance up. So my favorite thing to do is climb. So
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you tell them you turn that thing up. You go a little bit turn
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it up, turn it up, and they're like, oh my gosh,
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and you're going to the point where you're like barely being able to pedal and
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you get a great leg workout and get a good sweat. It's just all
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around. So are you. I'm trying to imagine what because I've been pie
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spin rings before. Right here, the instructor like, come on, carram
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In. That's where I probably come out the most with teaching. Like with
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the with the silver sinkers, you're trying to be more preventive and careful and
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making sure that the form's right. But with spin it's like fun and you
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can kind of do more and you have more of a flexibility to do more.
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How do I say it? Just more drvedgized Like hovers, you get
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to you get to just push people more. And I've been in classes where
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the room's dark so you don't feel like vulnerable, like you're out in the
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open sweat and people are just looking at you. Like I've been in classes
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where the lights are out. I've been in classes where they have strobe lights
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in there and it's just kind of crazy and fun. That's what I'm hoping
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to bring to the wine. I hope people come out and enjoy that.
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Okay, So that'll be in that new area once that room is open,
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once the bikes are ordered, that's gonna be one of the first things that
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we get going on in the area. Souse. Those are popular, right
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thing, Yes, they are very popular. Yeah, there's been classes.
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Okay, Well that's great, all right. So so you mentioned the programs
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and different things that are happening and the renovation. So the best what is
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the best way then the folks can if they want more information? The best
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way is the best thing they can do. If you guys are interested in
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getting a membership, come on down. We will give you a tour,
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take you through the whole facility, show you everything that we have to offer.
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Answer any questions. We are posting as much as we can, Like
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when we got our new equipment in the wellness center, we posted that we
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got like the new leg press and we got a news because like it's dusty
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and there's construction going around everywhere, but we are the Facebook. When things
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start to open up and classes get going, is the best place to find
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us at Now are there rooms available to just for other events? Sometimes?
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So we do parties and what we do. So those take place Friday,
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Saturday and Sunday after we close, and they can I think it's up to
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two hours that they can rent the building for. And they can either rent
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the gymnasium for like a basketball party, or they can rent the pool.
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And what we do is that back hallway that we have currently, we tables
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up. They can bring in cake, pizza, whatever they want. They
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just can't have it in the gym in the pool area for obvious reasons.
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But then once that new multipurpose room is opened, that room is going to
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open up as another that's gonna be another purpose. It'll be a party room
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as well. Okay, great, Now I know that Tom Peyton plays indoor
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soccer, So does anybody knows any good? I don't know. We might
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have got that, actually, I think he's pretty good. Might have to
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stop it on soccer practice one evening. Yeah, I think it's like I
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think you had the adult I think he plays on maybe Wednesday evenings. Is
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that right? Would that be right? Maybe? I don't. I don't
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know. We don't offer an adult indoor lea our facility. But just to
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add on a little bit before we go off, we are offering a couple
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new sport programs and I really haven't even posted about this on the Facebook.
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This will be like the first time. We will start beginning to offer our
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Challenger League back up that's for the special needs community, and that's no charge
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to them, member or not, there's no charge for that. They can
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come in. We're gonna be starting with basketball here in the spring. With
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that in the spring, we're also opening up an adult flag football league,
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which that is currently exploding now that it's coming into the Olympics in twenty twenty
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eight. We'll be starting that in the spring and just watch watch on watch
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on Facebook. Registration will open. I honestly haven't posted anything about that yet,
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so it'd be the first time. Okay, that's great, that's great,
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all right. So h So, as we always end of the Payton
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Show, just again give us Casey the location my phone number place to get
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the end. So we are located off of the Scott Depot or Tes Valley
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exit. We're on Taes Valley Road two hundred Carl's Lane, right beside the
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movie theater. You cannot miss us sign Brain new sign. It lies up
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at the bottom of the hill, big blue sign do Montree County, YMCA.
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You can always call us at three zero four seven to five seven zero
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zero one six and you can ask for any of our directors. If you're
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wanting to talk about memberships, family services, sports, personal training, any
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of that type of stuff. Just call ask and we'll direct you and who
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you need to talk to you. Oh, great, great information today,
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guys. They both did a great job. We appreciate it. Good seeing
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