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inter/Spring Brochure and Programming .,; next brochure goes to the printer on Friday, December 15`h. This brochure will cover mid-January through mid-May. We will also be sending out a promotional flyer about ' way through the season to re-promote programs that fall in the later months. A big change this year will be our promotion of Tball in this earlier brochure. Parents start looking for this information in February when the youth associations begin their registration process so we will have the information all ready to go. I am hoping to have flyers available at the Youth Baseball and Girls Softball registrations. We have a couple of new programs that I am really excited about. One is a cheerleading program for jr high girls. We have a one-day clinic that is just for fun and will be a fundraiser for the Cheerleaders as well as a weekly program that will meet for about 10 weeks to prepare those who are interested in trying out for cheerleading in 10th grade. It will cover skill development as well as clarify all the expectations of the cheerleaders. We have also acquired the Ski Club that used to be run by the school district. We were asked by Mike Hanlon to take over this program that has been running for about 25 years. We are finalizing all the trip details for the season and will be getting all the information out to the schools in the next few days. These trips are a great way to serve about 50 jr. and sr. high students every Friday throughout the winter. Additionally, we have gained a new staff person for programming who is currently teaching with the Skating cademy program. She will be adding off-ice conditioning soon and will also be offering a Matworks program. s is a Pilate-based program geared towards athletes to strengthen muscles as well as repair damaged muscles. We will be offering this program at the Emporium site to teens through adults. Open Gyms Open gyms are off to a great start. Attendance has been good so far and we are looking forward to a busy season. Last year's numbers were really low, many sites had little to no attendance for the majority of the season, but things seem to be back on an upward swing. We currently have 12 hours a week in open gyms available. Warming Houses We will be opening warming houses in the next two weeks. I believe we'll have enough staff to cover the shifts. We are working on making these positions safer and will be meeting with the park commissions in Elk River and Otsego (if they offer a rink this year) to discuss various possibilities. Some of the ideas being discussed in Elk River are two person shifts, having concessions at some site and one person would work concessions and the other would supervise the warming house area, and not having all the sites open at the same times. I will know more after the 13th when the park commissions meet. 0