Employees of the new American Family Fitness center in Short Pump received an unwelcome surprise when they showed up for work yesterday morning.
Rainwater that accumulated on the building’s roof leaked onto the quarter-mile track some time after the fitness center closed Friday night, assistant manager Kyle Moneymaker said yesterday.
The track will remain closed until the track dries and workers can check for mold.
Members continued to use the Read the rest of this entry »

A new Shawnee fitness facility, Punch Boxing + Fitness 5435 Roberts St., will have a grand opening Jan. 3.
Brad Goetch, owner, said the facility will offer one-hour fitness classes for both adults and children ages 8 and up, taught by certified boxing and fitness instructors. Classes include boxing, kickboxing, interval conditioning, yoga and strength training.
The class area holds 34 punching bags designed specifically to host group boxing classes. Read the rest of this entry »

MIDDLETOWN – A plan to convert the Horton campus of Orange Regional
Medical Center in the City of Middletown into a medical training school,
medical college, skilled nursing home, student dormitory, offices houses
to be constructed, was announced Wednesday by developer Tony Danza of
New Jersey and Mayor Marlinda Duncanson.
Duncanson called it “the most important project in this community
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POULSBO, Wash. –
An accident at a Poulsbo fitness facility killed a 7-year-old boy Tuesday evening, the Fire Department said.
The boy’s father was exercising Tuesday in the weight room at Armstrong Fitness University on Front Street in Poulsbo.
It appears a weight or weight rack may have fallen on the boy’s head shortly before 6 p.m., said Jody Matson of the Poulsbo Fire Department.
When paramedics arrived at the scene the boy was unconscious, Read the rest of this entry »

Last updated December 18, 2008 12:06 p.m. PT
Fitness company to expand Va. facility
RICHMOND, Va. — Fitness machine maker Nautilus is expanding its Grayson County, Va., manufacturing facility, creating 60 jobs.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Thursday the $1.7 million expansion will add a cardio exercise equipment line to the company’s manufacturing operations.
Vancouver, Wash.-based Nautilus makes fitness products under brands including Nautilus, Read the rest of this entry »

February 5, 2009
that Premier Fitness has added a heat recovery dehumidifier to the 6,000-square-foot aquatics room at the center of its new gym in Oshawa, outside Toronto, Canada. The  room features two large swimming pools, a 140 square foot whirlpool, a 60-foot-long waterslide, and a six-foot-diameter water umbrella.
The dehumidifier not only maintains a 50-percent relative humidity, but also provides a steady temperature in the space Read the rest of this entry »

Certain matters discussed in this news release may constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Federal securities laws. Although
the company believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions it can
give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
Forward-looking Read the rest of this entry »

LOS ANGELES—Officials say a convicted rapist who was fired from his job as a medical technician was then rehired to do the same work at a Los Angeles health clinic.
Now 48-year-old Gariner Beasley has been fired from that job, too.
The Los Angeles Times says Beasley raped a woman in 1991 while on duty as a Los Angeles police officer, but he was still hired at County-USC Medical Center as an X-ray technician after he got out of prison.
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CARDONE Industries’ employees and their family members will soon have the option to receive family health and wellness services just minutes away from CARDONE’s five main locations in northeast Philadelphia.
CARDONE Industries and Holy Redeemer Health Care System have developed a partnership on behalf of the health and wellness of CARDONE employees and their families. On Aug. 11, 2008, officials and employees of  both organizations Read the rest of this entry »