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F, BOOK UJ PAGE 7 00 o Our planned Gifford Aquatic Center will teach kids how to swim, teach water safety, teach job skills, teach therapeutic exercise, extend the Indian River County Recreation Department pool programs for recreational swimming, for classes, and for other community pool needs. o The Gifford youth Activities Center is having a tremendous influence on our children, youth, teenagers, young adults, and families, as is evidenced in the brochure on Gifford Youth Activities Center. With this Commission and our long list of community partners, the GYAC offers more than 24 programs, among them Youth Rap Sessions, Child Development Classes; Mentoring, Tutoring, Basketball, and good fun community gatherings; all of these programs are driven by community need. o The Gifford Youth Activities Center has in one year been so sugcessful and so well used that another group of IRC citizens wants to pay for the expansion of the GYAC building to meet this community need. *Back in 1996, when the Gifford Youth Activities Center was envisioned, the Indian River Community College helped conduct an area survey to better understand local community needs. Ranking highest of all concerns was a community pool. As we all now know, this county does need additional community pool facilities. With your participation, at this time, we offer a state-of-the-art pool facility as a gift, but we need your help with the site infrastructure. o The public awareness of the drowning of several children in our community moved some county residents enough for them to call the Gifford Youth Activities Center and make a commitment to raise the funds to provide the financial support for a pool facility to teach children how to swim. This partnership has come together NOW to meet a very much NOW need, in hopes that we will not lose another child because the child did it know h to swim! *Just as the Gifford Youth Activities Center arose from a vision to an operating reality in less than two years, because of the presence of God in charitable concern and giving and community involvement, so will the GYAC addition and Gifford Aquatic Center begin shortly, with the granting of our request today. *Your decision to support the concept, vision, and funding in 1996 set into motion and brought to fruition, the Gifford Youth Activities Center, which today is being cited by other communities as a model for partnershipping in their own towns. JULY 69 1999 -50- 0 - 0