{"id":9237,"date":"2023-08-10T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2023-08-10T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:53:38","slug":"planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Fitness Outfits Waite High School\u2019s Fitness Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9238\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Principal-Todd-Deem-announces-the-Planet-Fitness-gift-as-Superintendent-Romules-Durant-right-looks-on.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Todd Deem announces the Planet Fitness gift as Superintendent Romules Durant, right, looks on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one true testament to serving the community,\u201d said Toledo Public Schools Superintendent Romules Durant, EdD, during an announcement last week about the gift from Planet Fitness (Epic Fitness Group LLC) to Waite High School that will enable students, staff and faculty to work out on first rate equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity for Waite High School,\u201d noted Waite Principal Todd Deem as he echoed Durant\u2019s joy at the availability of the equipment for all those connected to the high school, not jut the student athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The donation from Planet Fitness includes: 15 resistance machines; a full set of dumbbells; four flat benches and free weights; three treadmills; three elliptical machines; two stationary bikes and two recumbent bikes. The result is a total renovation of the school\u2019s fitness center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a partnership made in heaven,\u201d said Art Nichols, Planet Fitness director of Facilities and Construction. \u201cThis was not just for the students\/athletes but all the students and faculty as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second such donation to TPS by Planet Fitness. Two years ago they provided Scott High School with a similar fitness center.<\/p>\n<p>Both Durant and Deem took particular pleasure in the upgrade to the Waite facilities as each noted he is a graduate of the school and, now as leaders, can rejoice in the transformation of the building over the recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a while lot of options over here,\u201d noted Durant of the east Toledo community and the limited choices for the students.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9237 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center\/the-superintendent-gets-the-first-workout\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-superintendent-gets-the-first-workout.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9239\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9239'>\n\t\t\t\tThe superintendent gets the first workout!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center\/waite-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/waite-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center\/waite-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/waite-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/10\/planet-fitness-outfits-waite-high-schools-fitness-center\/waitepic\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/waitepic.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff \u201cThis is one true testament to serving the community,\u201d said Toledo Public Schools Superintendent Romules Durant, EdD, during an announcement last week about the gift from Planet Fitness (Epic Fitness Group LLC) to Waite High School that will enable students, staff and faculty to work out on first rate equipment. \u201cThis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[187],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}