Ymca north versailles pa: Wilmerding Community Center – Fitness, Wellness, Exercise
Wilmerding Community Center – Fitness, Wellness, Exercise
ALL CLASSES AND FAMILY SWIM REQUIRE REGISTRATION IN ADVANCE – PLEASE CALL 412-520-7946 TO REGISTER
Due to the CDC guidelines, we will have members register for classes on a weekly basis to meet the social distance and member capacity requirements.
Welcome to the Wilmerding Community Center, Inc.
Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors
Executive Director- Pete McGinty
President- John Mock
Vice President – Kelly Maxwell
Secretary- Kari Bedillion
Board Members
Melissa Allenbaugh
Richard Catalano
Paul Heatherington
Greg Jakub
Linda Kirk
Steve Shurgot
Nathan Smith
Advisors
Joe Lawrence
Gary Nowading
Our Mission
Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors
The WCC is a Human Services non-profit organization established for the purpose of providing recreational programs and physical outlets for youth, families, adults, and senior citizens.
WCC will consist of a comprehensive exercise facility with a full gymnasium and an indoor swimming/therapeutic pool.
It is the policy and commitment of The
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The WCC is a Human Services non-profit organization established for the purpose of providing recreational programs and physical outlets for youth, families, adults, and senior citizens.
WCC will consist of a comprehensive exercise facility with a full gymnasium and an indoor swimming/therapeutic pool.
It is the policy and commitment of The Wilmerding Community Center that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, or religion.
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Our Programs
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Our Programs
Our Social Service and Health Programs will include but will not be limited to:
*Learn to swim programs for youth and adults.
*Water exercise programs
*Water aerobics/therapy
*Recreational/fitness swimming
*Youth development sports in the gym
*Team sporting and gaming events
*Aerobics classes
*Weight room conditioning and training
*Spinning classes
DONATIONS
If you wish to donate to help us get the WCC off to a great start, here is how you can help!
Make a check payable to: Wilmerding Community Center, Inc.
Send to : 1 Memorial Field, Wilmerding, PA 15148
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A SUBSTANTIAL NEED
The Allegheny Y represents 20% of all SRO (Single Room Occupancy) units in Allegheny County, but it is now in desperate need of renovation. 21 rooms are uninhabitable due to water damage, the shared
bathrooms provide no privacy, and are in significant disrepair. There is no cooling in the summer, none of the building is ADA accessible, the elevator was decommissioned several years ago and the kitchen requires significant updates.
Despite its limitations, the Allegheny Y provides a community where each man is welcomed and a staff member connects them to the appropriate health and human/social services so they can chart a path forward. Additionally, the proximity to downtown and public transportation make the location both
affordable and convenient.
The renovation and adaptive reuse of this historic property supports the One Northside plan to ensure that all residents have access to quality, affordable housing.
- 84 men residing in single rooms with access to shared bathrooms and gang showers
- Average age of the residents is 54
- 50% of residents are African American, 37% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian and 1% Unknown
- 64% are working, most in low paying service industry jobs
- 18% are individuals with disabilities
- 79% of the residents make less than 50% of median income while 21% make less than 80%
- 10% of the men have proudly served their country
- 11% have a mental health diagnosis
- Many have a prior conviction and therefore don’t qualify for Section 8 Housing
SHARED HISTORY – SHARED COMMUNITY
Dedicated in 1927, the Allegheny YMCA at 600 West North Avenue featured a modern gymnasium, pool, bowling allies, residence, cafeteria and club rooms.
At that time the Y’s primary function was to provide programming to boys from grade school to high school as well as working young men. Through the years, the YMCA expanded its services to more directly meet the evolving needs of the North Side community.
Currently, the Y offers a state-of-the-art cardio/wellness room, strength training room, group exercise, cycling studio, after school programming, summer day camp, and CrossFit studio. Total membership (pre-pandemic) was 2,600 individuals.
A PLACE TO CALL HOME
In keeping with our tradition of providing low-income housing to single men, the Allegheny Y continues to lease single rooms for $95/week, rooms the men call home.
For 95 years, the building and its residents have lived in harmony with the Northside Community. During the height of the pandemic, neighbors rallied to ensure the men were clothed, fed and entertained. A generous community also ensured all rents were paid.
Affordable housing continues to be a pressing issue for many on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
Over the last decade, revitalization of the Central Northside has taken hold and housing in the lower Northside and Mexican War Streets area has become increasingly unaffordable. The result has been the displacement of residents, many of whom are considered the working poor. This project supports the ongoing development of the area while providing affordable housing in an ideal location with excellent access to major employment centers, transit routes and a walk-able commercial corridor.
A CATALYTIC PROJECT
This project entails the renovation and update of all common spaces, the kitchen, fitness facilities including the wellness floor, pool area and locker rooms, and meeting rooms. 96 single room occupancy (SRO) units will be renovated on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors with a new configuration that replaces shared bathrooms with private facilities and provides a much-needed community room for the residents. Rooms and corridor renovations will include flooring, painting and ceilings.
Additional work will include replacement of mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems and installation of a sprinkler system. Air-conditioning and new elevators will be added. The renovations will use high quality, environmentally friendly materials. The SRO units will be designed with thoughtful floor plans and natural light. This renovation ensures that the entire building is fully ADA assessable.
Other important amenities for the residents of the Allegheny Y include access to the wellness facility and swimming pool, daily NA and AA group meetings within walking distance, access to local feeding programs and a small community garden providing fresh produce.
PROJECT SCHEDULE
September 2022 – Finalize building design and
environmental due diligence
December 2022 – Finalize fundraising
May 2023 – Receive building permit
June 2023 – Start construction
ESTIMATED COST
$22 Million
PROJECT LEADERSHIP
Michael A.
Polite, Chair, YMCA Board of Directors
Erin Tobin, Chair, Allegheny YMCA Advisory Board
Richard G. Jewell, JD, President & CEO (Interim)
How a St. Petersburg street became private – October 25, 2016
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There is a recipe for “privatizing” 600 meters of a St. Petersburg street. It is enough to put a strong barrier, and to the barrier – a few strong and determined guys in black uniforms. And a sign: “Northern Versailles.”
Blocking access to the city street, and at the same time fencing two dozen hectares in the “prestigious part of the Primorsky district” near the Lakhtinsky spill is not a fairy tale, but a reality. The authorities know, but do not mind. Locals traditionally rely on Putin to help them get to the beach. So far, as the brochure says, “access to the beach of the Lakhtinsky spill is only for residents of the village.
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Residential complex “Northern Versailles”, official address: Lakhta, Novaya street, houses 23 – 45. As it is written on the website: “A unique and one-of-a-kind elite residential complex.”
Denis Korotkov
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Whether gingerbread houses in the middle of a garbage forest correspond to the concept of elite is up to the buyers. Non-elite residents of Lakhta are concerned about another question: how to get to the spill.
When looking at the map of St. Petersburg, Novaya Street is visible – apparently, an ordinary city street, where anyone and everyone can walk and drive, regardless of status. The experiment showed that this is not the case. It turned out that not only the foot of a plebeian should not set foot on the street for the elite, but also to direct the camera lens in her direction is a terrible sin.
It was not possible to get closer than 30 meters to Novaya Street. The road is blocked by a barrier, for pedestrians – the passage through the checkpoint.
“Fontanka” wanted to ask what is the procedure for passing and driving along the street, marked on all plans and maps as a public road, but it did not come to that. This street is so unusual that it is not only impossible to walk and drive “ordinary” along it, it cannot even be photographed from a distance.
Denis Korotkov
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No sooner had the reporter made a general plan of the city landscape, which does not seem to require any special powers or permits, than two men in black uniforms appeared from the local guards, diligently demonstrating determination and self-confidence: “Put the camera away! Stop filming!”
Answering a bewildered question why it is forbidden to take pictures of a street in St. Petersburg, the guards growled something absurd about private territory and “internal order”.
It was amusing. Even if we were guided not by the cadastral map, but by a rather arbitrarily set fence, the journalist was fifteen meters from the fence. And if you take an interest in the documents, it turns out that these guards, along with their booth and barrier, were not at all on private territory, but on city land.
Collage “Fontanka”/Google.Maps/Rosreestr
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Here are the boundaries of Versailles private property on the cadastral map, they coincide with the boundaries of the cadastral quarter 78:34:0004306. It can be seen that 44 plots have been allocated and are indeed in private ownership. The purpose of the land – where for individual construction, where for an apartment building. And it’s all. There is no private property on the space between the houses and, of course, on the roadway of Novaya Street. This is the property of St. Petersburg, and the plots are not even demarcated. Meanwhile, the entire “complex” with an area of over 20 hectares is surrounded by a fence.
But that’s not all. From the north side and the Lakhtinsky spill, the complex is adjacent to the L-shaped area 78:34:0004305:1001 with an area of 7.5 hectares, intended for “recreational purposes”. It is also surrounded by a fence and guarded. On the plates there is an inhospitable inscription: “There is no passage! This area is on lease.
Denis Korotkov
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According to Rosreestr, this site was leased by Concord Management and Consulting LLC. Officials even issued a permit to build a fence. But the contract expired more than a year ago, and no other data is registered in Rosreestr.
Residents of Lakhta, who wished to freely pass to the water, wrote enough papers, appealing to the authorities. They wrote to the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Anatoly Krivenchenko, the deputy appealed to the prosecutor’s office and the city government.
Igor Albin answered. The vice-governor rightly states that the lease agreement No. 17/ЗК-04932 for the land plot with cadastral number 78:34:0004305:1001 was concluded on January 22, 2009, the installation of the fence was agreed upon, the right of free passage and passage through the land plot is not provided. The fact that the lease expired on 18 June 2015 is not commented on. This is in the part that concerns the L-shaped plot of 7.5 hectares.
The question of the legality of fencing an area of 20 hectares and the actual withdrawal of part of the city street is not discussed at all.
According to the answer, “access to the Lakhtinsky Razliv reservoir is through Slavyanskaya street, the coastline is freely accessible.”
This is not entirely true. The point is not only that in a straight line from the inaccessible New Street to the beach, which is located just opposite the “Northern Versailles”, – 500 meters, but from Slavyanskaya Street 2.5 times further. To get to the beach along the coast, you will have to wade through overgrown undergrowth, where there are not even paths. At Fontanka, the experiment failed, the perseverance of the pioneer was not enough.
Denis Korotkov
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The administration of the Lakhtinsky passage, located on the territory of the Northern Versailles, behaves honestly and openly, directly indicating on its website contrary to the information of the vice-governor: “The access to the Lakhtinsky Razliv beach is only for residents village”.
screenshot of the official website page
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The impossibility of a “simple” St. Petersburg citizen to pass or drive along the St. Petersburg Fontanka Street was also confirmed in the “Northern Versailles” itself. A polite and helpful woman, who answered the phone number listed on the site of the complex, assured that no stranger would set foot on the protected area.
When asked why Novaya Street is so special that you can’t just walk or even drive along it, the representative of Versailles could not answer: “We are a sales department, you should contact the management company with these questions.” The management company was named “Concord Management and Consulting”, previously controlled by the famous restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin, and now owned by his close relative Violetta Prigozhina. The sales department flatly refused to suggest how to contact Concorde.
Fontanka’s visit to the vicinity of Northern Versailles ended almost like a detective story.
The correspondent’s car began to accompany the “VAZ” of the tenth model with a man in a black uniform of a security guard at the wheel. After trying to find out the reason for such a close interest in the person of the journalist and getting to know the “ten” nervously got lost in the streets of Lakhta and got lost.
Denis Korotkov, Fontanka.ru
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Fontanka sent the issue of registered rights to land plots within the fenced and used as a private territory with limited access to the cadastral quarter No. 78:34:0004306 to the St. According to the answer, only 44 plots are registered with the cadastre.
“Since the only identifier of a land plot in the Unified State Register of Rights is the cadastral number, then, accordingly, there are no rights. No other plots are registered with us, ”the cadastral department explained.
Denis Korotkov
Denis Korotkov
Fontanka collage/Google.Maps/Rosreestr
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