{"id":826699,"date":"2026-05-28T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:03:14","slug":"300k-gifted-to-rome-ymca-for-fitness-area-upgrades-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826699\/","title":{"rendered":"$300K Gifted To Rome YMCA for Fitness Area Upgrades | Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"$300K Gifted To Rome YMCA for Fitness Area Upgrades\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a174b8adfe6a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ROME, N.Y. &#8212; The YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley in Rome has received $300k to make renovations to its Health and Fitness Area.<\/p>\n<p>The money was gifted from NYSTEC. With the donation, the YMCA was able to upgrade their entire fitness area on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>A major part of it is the new cardio room, which has new, more modern equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Y CEO Hank Leo said the new and improved space will be better for functionality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think the world of our friends at NYSTEC,&#8221; Leo said. &#8220;Everybody we have met from that company and their entire leadership group has been tremendous, so we couldn&#8217;t be more thankful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said in addition to their childcare program downstairs, the upgrades will draw in more families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of our mission is to make the positive impact in our community, and this is our community,&#8221; said Jasminka Husic, the CFO of NYSTEC. &#8220;We have employees that live here, that live in the Utica area; this is our home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, N.Y. &#8212; The YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley in Rome has received $300k to make renovations to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":826700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38],"tags":[8621,1728,1198,210,339465,339463,15959,339464,67,132,68,3149],"class_list":["post-826699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-donation","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-equipment","tag-nystec","tag-renovation","tag-rome-ymca","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wellness"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116649513576944821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}