{"id":2522,"date":"2021-09-09T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:41:34","slug":"finkbeiner-urges-city-to-build-a-new-wayman-palmer-ymca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/finkbeiner-urges-city-to-build-a-new-wayman-palmer-ymca\/","title":{"rendered":"Finkbeiner Urges City to Build a New Wayman Palmer YMCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2523\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2523\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carty-Finkbeiner-asks-for-a-new-Wayman-Palmer-YMCA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carty Finkbeiner asks for a new Wayman Palmer YMCA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/p>\n<p>Mayoral candidate Carty Finkbeiner held a press conference on Thursday, September 2, to announce his support for a new YMCA facility. He said that with the American Rescue Pact funds coming the City\u2019s way \u2013 in excess of $190 million, some of it should be earmarked for a new Wayman Palmer Y building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe roof leaks; there are infrastructure issues \u2026 we don\u2019t deserve anything in this neighborhood but born again, fresh new building. The city needs to take some of that money for a new building. We need investment in the YMCA. Let\u2019s leave no one out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing the weekend\u2019s upcoming Solheim Cup event and what the city has done for it, Finkbeiner said: \u201cHow much money was put into the golf tournament compared to how much was put into facilities like this one?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2524\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bishop-Brehon-Hall-addresses-the-press.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Brehon Hall addresses the press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sharing the podium with Finkbeiner were City Council candidates George Sarantou and Harvey Savage who both agreed with the mayoral candidate about the need for a new facility<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot leave our grandchildren a building like that one falling down,\u201d said Savage. \u201cWe did that with the county jail. We need to be sure the next generation is headed in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Brehon Hall attended the Wednesday press conference to add his voice to the idea for a new facility. \u201cOur community needs not just a rehaul but a re-do,\u201d said Hall. \u201cThis community needs something that children can come to. Carty Finkbeiner has fought for years for justice and for neighborhood facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tina Butts, founder and director of The Movement, also spoke and advocated for a new Y: \u201cOur kids should come and see a place they can be proud of; our babies are all around here. It\u2019s time for us to demand changes and fight for our kids when they don\u2019t have a voice for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff Mayoral candidate Carty Finkbeiner held a press conference on Thursday, September 2, to announce his support for a new YMCA facility. He said that with the American Rescue Pact funds coming the City\u2019s way \u2013 in excess of $190 million, some of it should be earmarked for a new Wayman Palmer Y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[73],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}