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Oswegoland Park District’s new fitness facility will not charge membership fee · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswegolan Park District's new fitness facility will not charge membership fee.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkoff, this article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. When Oswegolan
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  Speaker 1: Park District's new Ogden Point Facility opens its doors in September,
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  Speaker 1: those using the indoor recreation and aquatic programming facility will
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  Speaker 1: not have to pay a membership fee. This approach allows
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  Speaker 1: residents to participate in activities without the commitment of a
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  Speaker 1: monthly membership, the district said in recently updating the community
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  Speaker 1: about the new facility. Last year, Oswegoln Park District announced
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  Speaker 1: it had acquired the long vacant a Sport of Fitness
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  Speaker 1: center at two zero one Ogden Falls Boulevard along the
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  Speaker 1: US Route thirty four in Oswego in order to expand
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  Speaker 1: its indoor recreational and aquatic programming, including the district's first
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  Speaker 1: indoor swimming pool. Plans are for the building to open
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  Speaker 1: for athletics programs, fitness classes, and gym rentals in September.
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  Speaker 1: Aquatics programming would begin in winter twenty twenty seven. The
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  Speaker 1: facility will offer recreation programs that require registration scheduled drop
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  Speaker 1: in sports times, swim lessons and aquatic classes, community rentals
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  Speaker 1: for athletic and meeting spaces. Ogden Point will have three
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  Speaker 1: multipurpose gyms, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, five racquetball courts, a spin room,
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  Speaker 1: a group fitness room, a four lane lap pool and
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  Speaker 1: a multipurpose room as Sport of Fitness closed its doors
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  Speaker 1: in October sixteenth, twenty twenty three. La Fitness operates as
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  Speaker 1: Sport of Fitness Centers. The building was built in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and eight. The Dark District bought the forty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand square foot building for two point five to five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. The project is being funded through the district's
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  Speaker 1: accumulated resources and non referendum bonding authority. The district has
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  Speaker 1: been working on making improvements to the building. The facility
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  Speaker 1: had been closed for a number of years and the
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  Speaker 1: regular maintenance and security of the facility was not kept
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  Speaker 1: up very well. Oswe Golan Park District Executive Director Chad
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  Speaker 1: Feldodo had previously said in talking about the improvements being
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  Speaker 1: made to the facility. Currently, the park district operates two
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  Speaker 1: outdoor pools, the Civic Center Aquatic Pool and wind rock Pool.
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  Speaker 1: The district has an about thirty eight square mile service area,
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  Speaker 1: including all of the village of Oswego, parts of Montgomery, Aurora,
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  Speaker 1: and Plainfield, and all of Boulder Hill