By Jon Kawamoto | [email protected] | Bay Area News GroupJune 24, 2019 at 6:15 am WALNUT CREEK — An organization devoted to providing support and services to cancer patients and their families for three decades is expanding and intends to build a campus on nearly six acres of property in Lafayette. Founded in 1999 as the Wellness Center, the nonprofit organization now called Cancer Support Community is planning to move to a 5.75-acre site next to the Lafayette Reservoir, where it will construct a two-story building about 10,000- to 12,000-square-feet large, with a garden, walking trails and open space. Cancer Support Community CEO James Bouquin said the new campus will be the largest of its type in the Bay Area serving people with cancer. It will be roughly double the size of the current center in Walnut Creek. Cancer Support Community will continue to provide a range of programs for people with cancer, caregivers and their families — counseling, support … [Read more...] about Group aiding cancer patients plans new 6-acre East Bay campus
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Portsmouth is the healthiest city to live in the UK according to this shock survey
0 Have your say FOR years Portsmouth residents have been told they are overweight, have too many takeaways, and drink and smoke more than the national average. But now a new survey claims that despite all the other studies the city is in fact is the best place in the UK to live a healthy life. This shock claim comes from Protectivity Insurance which has analysed the facilities of 30 cities across the country – including number of green spaces and gyms. And according to the company Portsmouth is the best city in the UK to live a healthy life – provided you can stay away from the many takeaways, with the city having 126 outlets per 100,000 people. READ MORE: Portsmouth named one of top holiday destinations in the world for 2019Why is Portsmouth the ‘healthiest’ city? The survey took into account gyms and fitness centres, green space, spas and vegan restaurants as well as museums and access … [Read more...] about Portsmouth is the healthiest city to live in the UK according to this shock survey
This Gym Wants to Help You Get Swole at the Airport
In the past, getting a workout in the airport meant sprinting to the terminal while carrying an awkward piece of luggage and weaving between traveling families. You arrived at the terminal sweaty and stressed before sitting in an uncomfortable seat for hours. Roam Fitness founders Ty Manegold and Cynthia Sandall want to dramatically improve what it means to get a pre-flight workout. The luxury gym's first location opened in February 2017, just past security next to gate D1 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. What the 1,175-square-foot gym lacks in size, it aims to make up for it in convenience. In addition to the gym itself, Roam features showers, healthy food, workout clothes to rent, its own flight-tracking boards and vacuum sealing if you bring your own clothes. “We have everything for someone who’s traveling through in their business suit to be on a treadmill in five minutes or less,” Manegold says.The rental clothes are free with your membership, but … [Read more...] about This Gym Wants to Help You Get Swole at the Airport
The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Style Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Style | The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess Supported by Past Tense New year, same resolution. ByPenelope Green Jan. 9, 2019 Do you remember Face-o-Metrics? How about In the mid-60s offered their female employees a program of self-improvement: five weeks’ worth of exercise, posture, etiquette and fashion entitled Personality Workshop Inc. It was so successful with “the girls,” as they were called — otherwise known as secretaries — that their male managers signed up as well, to learn how to count calories, breathe properly by blowing up balloons and fling towels about to stay trim. In 1966, Face-o-Metrics were taught at Alexander’s department stores. (It was an era when department stores were still gathering places, vibrant agoras for more than … [Read more...] about The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess
2019 predictions for Colorado Springs: Psychics weigh in (a brewery at Martin Drake?)
What’s ahead for Colorado Springs in the new year? We don’t have a crystal ball, but two local psychics shared their 2019 predictions.Will Mayor John Suthers win another term in April? What will happen with the Interstate 25 widening between Monument and Castle Rock? What should city leaders focus on in the coming year?Answers to those questions and more follow. But first, here’s a look at the participants. Your Colorado adventure bucket list for 2019Sylvia “Jaye” Garcia has owned Manitou Metaphysical, 1031 Manitou Ave., in Manitou Springs, for nearly a decade. She says she’s a natural clairvoyant, seer and intuitive guide with talents and gifts “from generations of healers of Spanish and native energies.” She offers crystal chakra energy alignment, private crystal ball readings, Tarot card guidance and crystals for clearing. Online reviewers call her “spot on” in her readings, a “special soul” with … [Read more...] about 2019 predictions for Colorado Springs: Psychics weigh in (a brewery at Martin Drake?)