Crunch fitness in Norman?

 Crunch fitness in Norman? 

The city of Norman is launching a program to bring fitness classes to residents' doorsteps. Starting Monday, the city is launching a new mobile app and website called Nearby to provide weekly exercise options at all different levels.

The launch is in partnership with 3MR Fitness, Pure Muscle and Crunch.There are no prerequisites for the classes, but participants must be 18 or older.

Free week-long trial memberships are available for interested participants through the Nearby app.No payments are required.

To find out more, visit nearedistrict.org Training for police It's a unique and unique fitness program coming to Norman. It's the police academy. 

The school will be starting next year and if you want to be in it, you can apply online starting now. 

The classes will be free of charge.The orientation starts May 16, with classes starting in late August or early September.To find out more, visit policestation.normanok.gov Norman veterans reunite The nation's oldest living World War II veteran visited the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Madrid on Tuesday, as part of a European tour celebrating a joint peace effort by President Reagan and Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri.Ed Cooper, 101, was born in 1910 in Decatur, Texas.He joined the Marines in 1942, and eventually became a gunnery sergeant. He spent a total of 8 months in the South Pacific.His visit comes a day after three Argentine soldiers were killed in a skirmish with the Peruvian Navy in the disputed Los Incas Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Cooper was there at the time, and only recently learned of the Peruvian Navy's attack.

 Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo members also paid a visit to a former president of Uruguay in Montevideo on Monday, and ended their weeklong trip in Panama City, Panama. Northlake starts new pool Northlake Pool closed in September due to structural problems, but now the city of Norman is opening a new pool next month. A grand opening is planned for Jan. 31. City officials say the old pool was in "operational decay." City manager Matt Swayze says it cost $6 million to replace the building. He says they used the grant they received from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The new pool includes an Olympic-sized pool and leisure pool with a lazy river.

The pool is at 920 W. Alameda St. Norman water park to open The Loranger Family has spent the last few months raising funds for the Loranger Family Aquatic Center. The first public swim is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 29. 

The water park has been in the making for the last five years. The aquatics center will be a place for everyone from newborns to seniors to learn how to swim. The public is invited to the grand opening event at 9 a.m. Saturday. The cost is $5 per person, $3 for seniors and free for children ages three and younger.

 Loranger Family Aquatic Center is located at 4850 Grand Ave. Information and resources The University of Oklahoma will offer 20 credit hour courses in economics online starting next month. OU will join several other universities in offering the online course at the same time it will be offered on the OU campus. 

The courses, all of which are 12 credit hours, cover the core subjects of macroeconomics, economics for economic policymakers and microeconomics. Classes will begin on Jan. 23.Those interested in participating should register by Friday, Jan. 14 at noon. 

You can do that at www.courses.ou.edu. A single registration is $999, but students can purchase two or more online and save up to $200 each. There are no fees for taking one or more online courses. Online students also qualify for OU's in-state tuition rate. The courses will be available through the university's Norman campus and at the OU Health Science Center at Oklahoma City.This is the first time OU has offered online macroeconomics courses. 

New library in Azle Azle residents, families and visitors will have a brand new library to enjoy next month. The Azle Public Library, located at 102 W. Fredericks Ave., will hold an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tours of the building. Businesses in western Shawnee A new Subway is opening in western Shawnee at 5300 W. University Ave. It will be the first of two restaurants to open in the area. 

The other is going in at 5222 W. University Ave. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is building a restaurant on the south side of Cache Road, west of the Monsoon House. Construction is nearly finished and the business expects to open in the next month or so. Great Plains Mall is also bringing a new restaurant to the shopping center. Mi Pueblo Mexican Grill will open near Aeropostale in the south court of the mall. The new eatery will serve items from Mi Pueblo, a "fast casual" Mexican restaurant. Mi Pueblo has locations in Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. 

Crunch fitness norman 

Can everyone take a moment and send some love to Pawnee’s beloved desk jockey, Norman Pace? 

When the news broke that his beloved Crunch Fitness in El Segundo would be closing in late November, he let us know that he’s been handling all of his personal clients remotely, leaving his “office” vacant 

— a seat he occupied for 16 years. The former business owner didn’t see his lease renewed after a new property owner bought the property and decided to close Crunch. We send him our well wishes.

 – Alysha Del Valle, Daily Breeze staff Booted Bob Look at the size of the garbage pickup schedule for Pacific Palisades this week: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday only. Monday and Friday’s garbage pick-up were cancelled. Friday’s garbage pickup didn’t happen, and they didn’t pick it up on Saturday, either. I have lived on Palisades Drive for 25 years, and have never witnessed such lousy service from our garbage company. 

– Jeanne Raynor, Pacific Palisades City blunder How disappointing to read about the city’s decision to “close” the very popular Cafe Juanita restaurant in Pacoima, even though we know it has been on the brink of closure for months. 

When I first saw the story in the news and I didn’t see a word about “dozens of demonstrators outside the restaurant, many of whom said they didn’t get to eat there often enough,” I decided that I would go and join them.

 But when I arrived and saw the relatively small numbers, I walked by. What a shame!

 Is it too much to ask that the city must at least review the closure before making the decision?

 

– Terri Pottle, North Hollywood Editor’s note: The café closed at the end of October. Suggestions for Republicans For Republicans to stop helping the Democrats in this way: 

All House representatives must be subject to the Congressional Ethics Office and the special prosecutor, to stop “Congressional Corruption” or whatever they are calling it these days. All former government employees or officials must be removed from office or barred from employment at all government agencies, to stop “Government Corruption.”

 All political action committees must register with the IRS, and the sources of funds must be publicly reported. All pay raises should be reviewed by the OMB director, to stop “Government Waste.” Every Secretary of the Treasury needs to be subject to Congressional oversight and recuse himself/herself from any discussion of, or decision on any bill or deal that has any ties to an offshore bank account or foreign corporation. Any foreign “guest” who is paid with American money must be immediately arrested and prosecuted, to stop “Government Corruption.”

 All employees in the White House, the Pentagon, Homeland Security, and the CIA, need to be required to report every single person they meet with on any outside property or overseas. The Pentagon and Homeland Security and all other agencies should be audited. All Russian operatives must be expelled from the United States, to stop “International Corruption.”

 All the members of Congress and all their staffs need to be subject to the same rules as military personnel. The president and all his staff must be subject to the same standards as the head of any other foreign government. Any foreign government official who refuses to turn in any corruption source must be summarily executed, to stop “Government Corruption.”

 The heads of any company or individual who gives or accepts bribes, must be sentenced to death, to stop “Government Corruption.” All companies and individuals should be forced to publish an annual report, to make it clear if any foreign or domestic corruption is in their policies and practices. 

Every government agency and organization should be required to submit their own annual report, to make it clear if any corrupt practices are in any of their policies and practices.

 – J. H. Segal, Los Angeles Are they brain damaged?

  In a recent letter-to-the-editor, a person commented that someone should write and tell us how to convince mentally handicapped people to move off campus, when “their” friends come by and visit. Let me guess. They are quiet and get along with everyone, are just too hard to work with because they don’t understand anything that the rest of us have to deal with. Well, tell me how you are going to convince me that these lunatics are my friends.

 I find that all of these mentally handicapped people are emotional wrecks who need regular supervision. I suggest they are the opposite of friends. And for the kids that vandalized their van, I would think that you should go over there, if you want to kick someone out of your own home.

 – Jay Warren, Whittier Asking the wrong questions It’s impossible to understand why Democratic politicians can’t get it through their heads that the American people support all of their political and economic agendas, and yet refuse to listen.