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The city of Muskogee is doing more than open a new swim center next week. They are also offering two fitness areas inside the facility.  The Muskogee Swim and Fitness Center, 566 N. Sixth St., was formerly a Red Cross building and pool. It now features a rebuilt central pool with a more gradual slope, a nearby therapeutic pool, a fitness studio for aerobics classes, a dry sauna, and a fully-equipped fitness center.  Facility Manager Brooke Hall said she is excited about what she and the other staff will offer the public starting Feb. 1.  “This will be a year-round swimming facility,” she said. “That’s what we’re really excited about. We’ll have a year-round swimming pool, swim team, fitness studio and fitness center.”  Hall said the facility will be available for both public and private activities.

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Extreme Fitness Center to Supply Exercise Equipment

Extreme Fitness Inc. (Other OTC:EXTF.PK - News) is proud to announce that it has received a large contract and will supply equipment worth over $325,000 for a New Cardiovascular, Selectorized circuit training and group exercise products for a new fitness and wellness facility. The center will also have our line of strength training and free weight equipment. “The Super Nova-Extreme Fitness Center” will be located in Pueblo West Colorado, 20 minutes from our manufacturing facility. This will be a working showroom showcasing all of our new products for both clubs and retail markets. This prototype facility will be operated and owned by Vladimir and Ludmila Nova. Extreme Fitness has been working with the Nova’s on the fitness center design, layout and location for over the past 14 months. The center is expected to open around May 1st, 2008.

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WATERLOO — The gym at Dr. Walter Cunningham School for Excellence is full of activity, even though students went home hours ago.Some of the children have returned, accompanied by a parent or grandparent. And all of them — kids and adults — are exercising as music blares from a nearby stereo.The 21 people at Cunningham Thursday evening raised their heart rates for about an hour in a cardiovascular workout led by a fitness instructor from the YMCA. It’s all part of Hal’s Pals, a family exercise program that happens Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It also takes place across town at Irving Elementary School.Hal’s Pals has been operating during the school year since January 2006, when it began as a collaboration between community agencies with the help of federal grant funds. Hal is a mascot created by the Youth Fitness & Obesity Institute at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Although ice fishing began on several area lakes in recent days, anglers are advised that conditions can vary. For safety tips, visit www.fishandboat.com. View a survival video at www.keystonecrappie.com.  Presque Isle Bay (Erie County): Ice thickness varied across the bay and snow cover was complicating conditions as of yesterday. Poor Richard’s said ice was precarious. Limited angling was reported and was confined mostly to Horseshoe Pond and Misery Bay, where bluegills, steelhead and a few largemouth bass were reported. Very few crappies have been iced so far. For conditions, call BAC at 814-838-2850 or Poor Richard’s at 814-474-5623.  Lake Wilhelm (Mercer County): Ice fishing began Tuesday with anglers targeting panfish around the dam, Launch No. 3 and the stumps.

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The state Fish and Game Commission is set to consider a two-month fishing ban on the lower American River as a way to ward off poaching and preserve the steelhead trout population.  The ban for February and March, if approved, would be the first in years along a 26-mile section of the river from Nimbus Dam to the Sacramento River. That stretch is one of the region’s most popular, meandering through the American River Parkway, where anglers logged 265,000 hours fishing in 2007. A fly-fishing organization representing 7,000 Northern California anglers is asking the state commission for the ban, which would interrupt the steelhead trout season

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The Missouri River Flyfisher’s Flyfishing Film Festival features short and long films highlighting the art of fishing, environmental issues and more. Tickets cost $8 and $6 for students in advance or $10 at the door. The festival begins at 7 p.m. in the University of Great Falls Theater, 1301 20th St. S. Call 453-1613 for details

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Ambassador Benavidez with Ms Lorel Guevarra, Mr Larry Acosta, Ms Cely Obuela, Virgilia Pinpin and Riza Isagunde. Also seen are Dr Colin David Reynolds, Elizabeth O Recio and Norlita P Lugtu. The Philippine Embassy through its Philippine Overseas Labour Office recently held a Recognition Ceremony for the First Aid and Basic CPR Training participants at “Ang Bahay,” the residence of the Philippine Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam. Among the guests at the ceremony included Dr Colin David Reynolds and his medical staff of Riverview Clinic, namely Renee Parejado, Joel Garcera and Hershey Gatapia. Dr Reynolds emphasised the need to refresh their learning on the subject through practice. Class President M Lorel Guevarra, on behalf of the participants, extended her gratitude to the Philippine Embassy and to the resource speakers for conducting the training which they have found highly useful and is of great help to them at work, at home or in other future workplaces.

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The death of Anthony F. Skane on Sunday left behind a legacy of first-aid training that spanned a generation, some of his longtime protégés recalled Wednesday. Skane, who was 90 when he died, was born in Egypt and came to the United States when he was 4. As an adjunct professor at Mohawk Valley Community College, Skane instructed emergency medical technicians and taught CPR classes, his obituary states. .

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She saw the hot coal fall from the fireplace into a hole in the floor, and went to the kitchen to get some water.  By the time the elderly woman returned to the living room of her mobile home in Maize on Monday night, the fire was out of control. She escaped without injury, but her home was destroyed.  Fire officials say the fire is a reminder of how important it is to have fireplaces inspected before using them.  “This one probably shouldn’t have been burned in, but she didn’t know that,” Sedgwick County Fire Marshal Tim Millspaugh said.  The woman had moved into the mobile home the day before, he said. Her daughter and son-in-law had just bought it for her.  She used the fireplace to ward off the cold. She was adding another log to the fire when the coal dropped into the hole.

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A missing fireplace poker belonging to a Naperville couple found shot to death near the bludgeoned bodies of their daughter and son-in-law in their Aurora home may hold a crucial clue to solving the bloody crime.  Others details also emerged Saturday to reveal a possible second crime scene in Naperville after investigators found blood evidence on a mattress in the older couple’s home, according to sources close to the case.  Meanwhile, the interrogation of a 28-year-old relative held since early Friday in a Portage, Wis., jail cell stalled by Saturday after the man invoked his right to have a lawyer, the sources said.  Eric C. Hanson repeatedly denied killing his family.  Prosecutors secured an arrest warrant on felony intimidation charges against him several hours after the bodies were found Thursday.

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GURNEE — An apparent problem with the gas line on a fireplace Thursday sparked a fire that damaged a house in the 17000 block of Cunningham Court.  Two people inside the home escaped without injury after a neighbor noticed smoke and flames coming from the chimney’s exterior around 5 p.m., according to Lt. Joe Arnold of the Gurnee Fire Department. Arnold said the fire apparently began inside a wall, and flames “were following the chimney all the way to the top” of the two-story structure.  Fire crews were on the scene for some 90 minutes, assisted by the Newport and Grayslake fire departments. Damage was contained to the chimney and a room on the second floor.

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More changes are under way at Biltmore Fashion Park. Construction of a new pedestrian walkway will begin in mid-February and is expected to be completed by November. The new walkway will be on the east interior of the outdoor shopping center at 24th Street and Camelback Road. The existing narrow walkway will be widened, allowing for new stores to have two entrances and allow for more grassy landscape. .

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With fashion changing faster than the time taken to make a cup of hot coffee in this winter, fashion-conscious, suave urban Indians are facing the ever increasing dilemma of what to wear and what not. Forecasting trends for Year 2008, Delhi-based fashion designer Chirag Joshi says,  “Tunics which sold like hot cakes last year will continue to hold grip among all age-groups. This year the terrific tunics will reign, when worn with churidars, with back zips. Chic Arabian pattern of Harem pants would be trashed out, making way for naughty bell bottoms. Also time to bid farewell to dear wedges, as platforms are set to strike the market with great velocity.”  Joshi who worked with top-notch designers like Ritu Kumar and Ritu Beri before setting up his own designer label adds, “An exorbitant use of vegetable dyes would add finesse to the apparels.

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In the ever changing realm of fashion, one factor that remains constant are the legendary do’s and don’ts found in magazines and tabloids worldwide. These highly respected laws of adornment, such as the strike on white after Labor Day, often play an extremely heavy role in the lives of the fashionably conscious. However, as more and more consumers rely less on the dictates of high fashion, and more on their personal taste and style, the emergence of the fashion rebel era quickly approaches. “I’m both a rebel and trendsetter, and always add my own touch to my style,” FSU senior and Merchandising major Sasha Scott said.  Throughout the recent history of breaking the fashion rules, we have witnessed many rebellious acts, such as an expensive designer men’s suit paired with crisp, white Air Force One’s.

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FOR A CITY that is supposed to be a football town, there has been a lot of discussion about college basketball on Columbia’s radio and television stations the past week. It served to confirm what most of us knew: There is a huge fan base that is eager to support a successful USC basketball program.  Those who doubt that should check out the many local sports-talk radio shows. I spent much of this week switching among those shows to listen to the comments of fans and hosts.  It began a week ago when TV and radio crews and newspaper reporters gathered for Dave Odom’s news conference to announce his intention to step down as USC’s basketball coach at the end of this season. According to Odom, one of his reasons for making the announcement midseason was so fans would quit booing him and concentrate their energy on cheering the players