Fort Gordon donates fitness equipment

2009-10-23 / Sports

Bonnie Heater Signal staff

Photo by Bonnie Heater Soldiers from Company B, 447th Signal Battalion load equipment from Gym 6 into a moving truck Oct. 20 Photo by Bonnie Heater Soldiers from Company B, 447th Signal Battalion load equipment from Gym 6 into a moving truck Oct. 20 Soldiers from Company B, 447th Signal Battalion helped Neil Smith, Fort Gordon’s Sports Coordinator, Recreation Division Sports and Fitness and Aquatics Branch sports coordinator, and Randy Taylor, facility manager for the Fort Gordon Fitness Center on Barnes Avenue, load fitness equipment from Gym 6 onto a truck headed for Alabama Oct. 20.

Anderson Army Depot located in Alabama will receive eight cross trainers, four treadmills, three upright bides and two recumbent bikes, according to Mildred Brown, manager of Gym 6.

Tooelle Army Depot located in Utah will also be getting some of the Nautilus, Life Fitness and Hammer Strength equipment from Gym 6, which closed Oct. 2 for renovation.

“We plan on keeping 16 pieces of fitness equipment to place back in the facility after it has been refurbish,” she said. “When the gym reopens it will have air conditioning and heating as well as new basketball courts.”

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