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Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, Jan Knight, 73, heads to the Beech Street Center with one thought in mind: its time to exercise. While she enjoys the social interaction offered at the centerthrives on it, evenKnight is focused on proactively improving her health when her gentle aerobics class begins.

I just think it makes all the difference in the world to me if I get out and do something, Knight said. Part of it is the interaction with other people, which I thoroughly enjoy, but part of it is just knowing that I am making a positive impact on my own health.

Knight suspects if the Beech Street Center did not exist, she might spend more time sitting at home than she does exercising and interacting with her peers now.

Its not like going to the gym where everybody there is 40 years younger than you, Knight said.

She first became involved with the Council on Agings (COA) exercise programs when the organization was operating out of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in 2009.

According to Nava Niv-Vogel, COA director, the $6 million center was a necessary upgrade from when the COA was operating out of the church from 1999 to March 2009.

History of the center

The center was mostly funded by a debt exclusion passed in November 2005. The Friends of the Beech Street Center funded $1 million in project costs.

It took two years to build and opened in October 2009. The center is built on the site of the former Kendall School. Vogel said some seniors who utilize the center were students at the school as children before it burned down.

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