Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Y gets aid to warm frigid gym
Village steps in on behalf of users
BY SARA J. BENNETT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LINCOLN HEIGHTS — Folks who play at the village's YMCA will be a lot warmer now.
Lincoln Heights has dedicated $12,622 toward fixing heat in the Y's gym, on Lindy Avenue in the Smith Flowers Civic Center.
Workers from the Geiler Co. should finish the project by the middle of next week.
That's good news to peo ple like Phillip Bradbury of Fairfield, who plays basketball at the Y several times a week. One game got canceled this winter, he said, because it was just too cold.
“It'll be a lot more fun” when the heat is fixed, he said. “It's been cold in there. It's hard to get into the flow of things, and that's when injuries happen. If you can't get warm, you can't get your muscles loose.”
Hundreds of people use the Y's gym, from about 260 little league and adult basketball players to about 20 children who do double- dutch jump roping.
Alan Geans, director of Lincoln Heights' Y since July, said he discovered the gym had no heat in December despite a new boiler having been installed in the building last year. The village, which leases space in the civic center to the Y, tried to help matters with temporary heaters.
Jim Hull, director of facilities and property management for the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati, said he had been in contact with officials at Lincoln Heights to offer whatever help he could in getting the heating fixed.
Now that it's happening, Mr. Geans is ecstatic.
“Ha-le-lu-jah!” he said. “I'm just glad they're fixing it because it makes the building more marketable, and we can do more things with it.”
Lincoln Heights resident George Gray echoed that enthusiasm. He said his grandson has had to find other places to play basketball this winter when temperatures dropped too low.
“A lot of people have been pushing for this,” Mr. Gray said. “We really need it now.”
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