Working Out At the Fitness Center

For the past several years, yers truly has more or less enjoyed an activity we resisted for all our days prior to October 0f 2002 -- physical exercising at the Charles Cole Hospital's Wellness Center located in the former Community Hospital building at Pine and Broad streets in our hometown. Don't recall exactly how many times we argued against signing up for such an activity, using the contention that it just doesn't make sense to pay for physical exercise when our home is located on a hillside immediately adjacent to heavily-wooded countryside. Why don't we just hike up and down the road leading to and from the homestead? Easier said than done, as the old saying puts it! Anyway, to make a long story shorter we just don't cotton to the idea of walking up and down several blocks of Katherine St. Ext. Some months during 2001 and 2002 the missus and this scribe used the high school corridors for our strolling site -- don't remember just why that activity got suspended. At any rate, for almost a half-dozen years now, this writer and other half have been paid patrons of the Wellness and Fitness Center. Got started on this procedure in the late weeks of 2002, when Mrs. Rambler was having PT there after the first of two knee replacements. Noting how effective the various types of exercise were in encouraging her recovery, yers truly decided it might make sense to sign up himself. As of today we report three times a week for an hour or more at the Center, and feel that it has been very beneficial. Additionally, the writer is gratified that the former Community Hospital building continues to provide health-related services to the hometown, especially in view of the concerted townwide campaign which brought the modernized facility into existence to replace the West Mill St. structure where this writer entered the world. All for this visit, as this scribe continues to struggle with this electronic keyboard after decades with that 1952 Royal portable!