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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 Oswegoland 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 Oswegln 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: Oswegelen Park District announced it had acquired the long vacant
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  Speaker 1: a Sport of Fitness center at two zero one Ogden
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  Speaker 1: Falls Boulevard along US Route thirty four in Oswego in
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  Speaker 1: order to expand its indoor recreational and aquatic programming, including
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  Speaker 1: the district's first indoor swimming pool. Plans are for the
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  Speaker 1: building to open for athletics programs, fitness classes, and gym
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  Speaker 1: rentals in September. Aquatics programming would begin in winter twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. The facility will offer recreation programs that require registration,
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  Speaker 1: scheduled drop in sports times, swim lessons, and aquatic classes,
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  Speaker 1: community rentals for athletic and meeting spaces. Ogden Point will
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  Speaker 1: have three multipurpose gyms, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, five racquetball courts,
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  Speaker 1: a spin room, a group fitness room, a four lane
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  Speaker 1: lap pool, and a multipurpose room. A Sport of Fitness
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  Speaker 1: closed its doors on October sixteenth, twenty two. Twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: LA Fitness operates Esporta Fitness Centers. The building was built
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. The park District bought the
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  Speaker 1: forty five thousand square foot building for two point five
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  Speaker 1: to five million dollars. The project is being funded through
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  Speaker 1: the district's accumulated resourcess and non referendum bonding authority. The
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  Speaker 1: district has been working to improve 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. Osgoan Park District Executive Director Chad Faldado
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  Speaker 1: had previously said in talking about the improvements being made
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  Speaker 1: to the facility. Currently, the Park District operates two outdoor pools,
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  Speaker 1: the Civic Center Aquatic Pool and wind Rock Pool. The
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  Speaker 1: 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