May 22, 2017
Board of
Commissioners
County Cuts Ribbon on New Bear Creek Senior Activity and Recreation Center
Regular Meetings June 6, 2017 9:00 AM June 20, 2017 6:30 PM
Meetings held at: Administration Building Community Room 140 Henry Parkway McDonough, GA 30253 Regular Commission meetings air daily on Henry TV Channel 180 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.
District II Commissioner Dee Clemmons, the Henry County Board of Commissioners, county and city of Hampton officials, along with members of the community, celebrated the ribbon cutting for the new Bear Creek Senior/Recreation Center in Hampton.
Henry County officials took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony, Monday, May 22 to welcome the new Bear Creek Senior Activity and Recreation Center to the county. The combined Senior Activity and Recreation Center is the first of its kind in Henry County, with an overall size of approximately 20,000 square feet. A portion of the facility is dedicated to the Senior Activity Center, another section is dedicated to the Recreation Center, and the rest of the space is a shared fitness area. The Senior Activity Center features a lobby/lounge with a gas fire place, card room, craft room and multi-purpose room. It also has restrooms, a staff office, a full service kitchen, and dining room which is adjacent to the outdoor patio area. The Recreation Center includes a separate entrance into its own lobby with two large multi-purpose activity rooms, a kitchenette with microwave oven and refrigerator, as well as a vending area and ice machine, restrooms, office and breakroom. The shared space consists of an aerobics room, fitness area and indoor walking track. The fitness area includes three treadmills, two ellipticals, two recumbent bikes, a six piece push/pull circuit, a five station multi-stack system with cable crossover and Continued on page 2
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