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Edison YMCA 732-494-3232
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If you see the staff at your local YMCA wearing a bright yellow shirt, then make a mental note that it’s a special day. Because that’s the day the branch is working with cancer survivors to help them regain their lives.
The Woodbridge-Edison-Metuchen YMCA network has partnered with the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) to create LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, a free program that shows cancer survivors how to return to a healthy lifestyle.
“It is the proudest thing I have done here at the Y,” said Kim Cole, Director of Fitness and Sports at the Woodbridge YMCA. “We do a lot of great things at the Y, but this is a new thing, and there is a real need for it in the community. It feels really good to make a difference with these women especially.”
Nine women, all breast cancer survivors, were in the Woodbridge YMCA’s six-week pilot program, which concluded earlier this year. The Edison YMCA also recently completed a six week pilot involving seven cancer survivors, consisting of both men and women. The Metuchen YMCA is currently in the middle of its pilot program, which is slated to last a full 12 weeks. Depending on the branch, the program has met one to two days per week, during the day or evening. Read the full story
At the end of July, with just one member of the public in attendance, the Metuchen Planning Board approved the final site plan application for the proposed development known as the District at Metuchen.
“We will probably be breaking ground in late spring or summer of 2010, demolish the rest of the buildings, and start building D,” said developer Robert McDaid. “It would take a year to get that building and the parking deck built, so we are at summer to fall 2011 to get that built. [The whole project would take] three to five years from ground-breaking.”
When it is completed, the developer estimates that the mixed use development, billed as a smart growth transit village, will have a market value of $75 million. It is slated to have 150 residential units, of which 11 would be work/live units and 24 would be COAH affordable housing units. There would also be 63,280 sq. ft. of retail commercial space, with a minimum of a grocery store, a bank, an Ace Hardware store, and a restaurant, along with other retail stores.
