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Vol. 31, No. 12 | Richmond Suburban News | July 23, 2014
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Atlee YMCA closing in October “There have been no lease negotiations with them — they never gave us an opportunity. We don’t really know what’s going on.” DAN SCHMITT President and chief operating officer HHHunt Corporation
By Jodi Deal jdeal@mechlocal.com A YMCA fitness center situated within the planned Rutland community is set to close its doors in early October. According to Blake Carleton, YMCA of Greater Richmond’s vice president of membership, the move was simply a matter of dollars and cents. The organization’s three-year lease on the facility was coming to a close, and membership had simply never grown enough to sup-
Midway owner cleared in case of surveillance
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The Atlee Station Family YMCA, situated within the Rutland see YMCA, pg. 4 community, is set to close on Oct. 3.
Local man strikes it big with win in wheelchair bowling championship
By Jodi Deal jdeal@mechlocal.com When a vandal ripped down a camera at Club Midway last September, the camera did its job: It captured an image of the perpetrator that allowed owner Dennis Smith and the Hanover County Sheriff ’s Office to identify and prosecute that person. However, what police found when they took a second look at the video kicked off nearly a
port expenses, he said. The facility has about 800 “membership units,” including individual, couples’ and family memberships, Carleton said. When asked how many memberships would have been needed, Carleton said, “There’s no magic number” — but an internal analysis showed there weren’t any workable ways to reduce the expenses of running the facility enough to justify remaining there.
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Dennis Smith, owner of the Club Midway, was cleared of charges related to placement of surveillance equipment in a restroom at his business.
year of legal struggles and frustration, Smith said. see MIDWAY, pg. 7
By Jodi Deal jdeal@mechlocal.com
national title after 14 years of bowling in the league, Keith explained. “She knew that if I turned around and saw s Keith Green bowled the final her crying, I’d get emotional,” Green said. rounds of the 53rd annual Green, whose 1997 stroke left him with American Wheelchair Bowling trouble controlling his emotions, has learned Association National Championship to keep his head in the game by ignoring the Tournament, held June 9-14 at Bowl America score and focusing on his technique one turn at Short Pump, his wife Kim had to excuse herself a time. Kim knew she couldn’t risk breaking his from the building. concentration. Photo courtesy of Caroline Reese Kim was overcome with tears as it became Keith Green displays his see BOWLING, pg. 5 national singles title plaque. clear her husband was going to take home the
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