Trying to shed some pandemic kilos? Kent is auctioning off its health gear, after closing its health middle in December.
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Angela Manley, Kent’s Parks and Recreation director, stated she determined to shut the health middle in December. Manley stated the pandemic prompted her to take a better take a look at the middle as a result of she knew attendance was low. She came upon that the middle had been shedding cash virtually since its opening in 2013.
GovDeals, a web-based public sale service, has 195 listings. A number of the listings have units, so there are greater than 200 objects. The public sale will run till 6 p.m. March 27.
There are treadmills, train indoor bikes, kettlebells, dumbbells, in addition to giant train gear, akin to leg presses. There are additionally smaller objects, together with train resistance rings, Zumba sticks, stability trainers and cardio step platforms.
Beginning bids vary from $10 to $500, the best worth being for a trailer that was a former diner and that almost all just lately served as a building workplace.
Manley stated there could also be lots of people who’re on the lookout for train gear to lose their pandemic kilos.
“Due to the pandemic, I do know there have been individuals who could not discover train gear,” she stated. “They needed to wait a very long time to get them.”
Reporter Diane Smith may be reached at dsmith@recordpub.com.