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Home My WebLink AboutACCAC - November 8, 2010 ~NDOVER~ tlf)lJjlJjtln~ tl8nwl' Andover Community Center Advisory Commission Monday, November 8, 2010 Andover Community Center, Meeting Room B 6:30 pm 1. Call to Order - 6:30 p.m. 2. Approve Meeting Minutes - September 13,2010 3. YMCA Update 4. Staff Update 5. Other Business 6. Adjournment G) '"1 Andover YMCA Community Center Advisory Commission Status Report November 1,2010 Programming/Events/Revenue - In Progress/Upcoming . Upcoming Field House/Misc. Activities 0 Rum River Elementary Field Trip (171 students) - October 29 0 Election Precinct 7 - November 2 0 Andover Elementary Field Trip - Walk-a-thon Winners - November 5 0 Constance Free Church - Night Lock-in Swim & Gym - November 5 0 Tournament of Champions - Karate Cup UMA- November 7 0 Cookies with Santa - Community Event - December 11 0 Andover Girls Traveling Basketball Tournament - December 11 & 12 0 Carousel Craft Show - December 18 . Upcoming Ice Activities 0 First AHS Girls Hockey Game - November 16 0 First AHS Boys Hockey Game - December 4 . 0 MN Whitecaps (Women's Professional Hockey) - December 3rd 0 Skate with Santa - December 5 0 AHYHA Girls U 1 OIU 12 Youth Tournament - December 17 - 19 0 AHS Girls Holiday Tournament - December 28 - 30 . Learn To Skate Lessons - October 16 - November 20 - Both sessions completely filled - 60 students total participating . Fall Indoor Soccer League - October 9 ~ November 20 - Two age divisions. School Flyer drop (2,500+ copies) submitted to schools week of September 13th. Participation Totals 40 kids - ages 5/6 and 21 kids - ages 7/8. Continued Programming September 2010 - Mav 2011: . Tot-Time Open Gym - Mondays & Tuesdays, 10- Noon Admission $1 child/Free YMCA Children . Tot-Time Group Fitness - Wed & ThursdaY's, 10 am -11 am. Instruction provided by certified YMCA Staff. Admission $1 childlFree YMCA Children. . Indoor Walking Club - Monday-Friday - 5:30 am- 9:30 am . After School Youth Center, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3 - 5 pm Staffing provided by YMCA- October 25 . After School Free Student Open Gym - Monday - Friday 2:50 - 4:50 pm . After School Open Hockey Monday - Thursday $2 skater begins September 20 - October 28 - Will Return in Spring 2011. Programming/Events/Revenue - Future . Business Expo - Exploring Options to offer this show Fall 2011. Andover EDA has supported idea, and discussion is taking place with a local marketing person to help with this event. . Field Trips .... .~""""'.'1'f"" ffjday, Oct. 22, 2010 Page 23A @ .. .~~.;~h~ili~j?~.I.iJ'f.:""~""lO\J AROUND THE COUNTY =....~~,:\1;mj?:.: Andover YMCA class teaches young kids about fitness By ERIC HAGEN values so they want to do this and you'll be a part of StarT Writer this on an everyday b.ISis," The World Health Orga~ Mount said. niz<ltion estimates that ever Adults do not pay any- . one billion people around thing to be with their chi!- the world are obese, so the dren in class. The cost per health problem stretches child is $1 for non.YMCA beyond America into other members and free for mem. countries. bers. .The classes are each A flew Tot Time Group Wednesday and Thursdll;y Fitness class at the Andover from ID to II a.m. so thiS YMCA/Community Center is designed us an activity has limited participation so to get stay-at-home. paren~s far, but group fitness instruc. ou,r of the home ":'Ith th~lt tor Laurie Mount feels this chIldren. The seSSions WIll class can make a dirTerence finished for the season at the for these children who are cnd.of May when kids want six years old and younger. to be outside. "We have a weight epi- . "I think !t will be a huge demic in this country. Tech~ hit when wmt:r comes be. no(ogy is !Zood but it has cause people Will want to be. . made us seYdent;ry" Mount inside," said Cindy Ramsei. Laura Mount (nght) leads a group of parents ancf <;hddren under the age of six In warm~ups. Mount Is the said. ' er, a receptionist at the An- only group fitness instructor for the Tot '1}me Group Fitness class. This n~w class that starte~ in Septem~ HI' t ale fit dover Community Center ber and runs through May Is a partnershIp between the YMCA and the City of Andover. The crt)' operates ef, gOll. JSj 0 m'. e - whodevelopedthisnewpro~ thefleldhousewhereerassesha~penandMountfsemployedbytheYMCA. Photos by Esic Hagen ~css un an lave parents gram with the partnership rnvolved. of the YMCA. old daughter Luca to this The nrst half.hour is re. . "The message.' try to de. With winter approach- class. served for warm.ups, but lIve~ to. parents IS ~e want iog, Maranda Collum of "I want to get her in the !'Aount strives to .make it en- to mstlJl these habits and Andover took her five~year. habit of not just watching jpyable for the .klds. One of . cartoons," Maranda said. the warm-up~ J~ th~ rigger . bounce to mimIC the "Win- L}sa ,:"oung of Coon nie the Pooh" characfer. Rapids said her four-year. .. old daughter Maggie does !~e ~ex:t 30 minutes. IS not like watching television. actl.vlty tIme. Oct 7, the kl~s She loves running everyM tossed balloons In. the alf where, so Lisa signed them an~ caught them to Imp~ove up for a YMCA member. t~elf hand-eye-coordma. ship and the Oct. 7 Tot Time lI~m. They have also played Group Fitness class was the kICkball and bounced first time Ihey had stepped arou~d the fieldhouse on ! fOOl in the YMCA as memo hoppll~ ball. . , bers. , . Basic 'Jessons of healthy DIana Knapp of Oak Grove brought her almost I - Lisa said it is best to !!et 'hvmg tire shnreu With the 11.monfh-ord daughter early (pIctured) and.two";' ',.. kids involved in fitness curly young kids throughout ~hc year-old son Ryan to Tot lime Group ~itness Oct. 7 . class. As the oroup be"lns to get them out of the house and active. The class rather ~han ne~dlOg gover~- t1 . _ <:I M t t II meets every Wednesday and Thursday from 10 to I', ment mvolvement later In lelr war!11 up. .ou~ e s 11 '01 life. them their body IS like an a.m. i l; . automobile because it needs so far. but there is no lonl!:- ,I Andover Commumty fu.el. Humans' fuel is food term commitment if some. CClll;r does offer another and a healthy breakfast body just wants to tryout i program.called Tot p'!'e for gives you the energy to kick. the class. ! young kids, but ~llls IS un. start .your day. Drinking '. structured play time. Every 1ft . I k For more mformatlon, , aspect of the h.our.long T~t ~h~~foorm;~h~~I.s a so cy, call 763.767.5100. r Time Group Fitness class IS . Eric Hagen is at eric. i structured. . The heart IS a muscle that fJagen@ecm';lIc.cU/ll . i needs to be strengthened. I Left: Maranda Collum so Mount makes sure the Right: Fpur-year-old ! of Andover and her five- :Iasses .are regularly check- Maggie Young of Coon 'I' year-old daughter Luea 109 their pulse ~o ;?ey know Rapids spins her arms ,. follow along with the they a~ gettlO:> a good around during warmaups I group during warm-ups, workout. for the Tot Time Group' I Which take up the first Tlte class met for the first Fitness class at the An. I half-hour of the Tot Time in early September. There dover YMCAlCommu~ i Group Fitness class. have been some regulars nlty Center. I . t , , \