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Fitness Center Becoming Established

Carthage, IL – The former Carthage YMCA has become the Family Fitness Center and is under the umbrella of the city's park board. Fitness Center President Carrie Carroll says being under the park board solves the problem of securing insurance, which the center otherwise would not have been able to do. Volunteers are staffing many of the center programs and are planning fundraisers to help keep the former Y going. Carroll says the formation of a high school district based in Carthage should help increase membership. She says while high school basketball players are practicing, their younger siblings could take part in the center's basketball or exercise programs.