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Erica Edwards Joins The Millennium as a Fitness Instructor |
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The Millennium Tennis & Fitness Club would like to welcome our newest Fitness Instructor, Erica Edwards. She is a Certified Fitness Instructor who relocated to the four-state area from Pittsburgh, Pa. in 2007. Erica’s name and face may be familiar to you because she is also a main anchor for KOAM-TV in Joplin, Mo. In addition to working for the Millennium and KOAM-TV, Erica is a Fitness Instructor for the Joplin Family YMCA. |
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Marianella Padron Receives Health Care Heroes Award |
Marianella Padron, executive director of tennis for the Millennium, was recently chosen as a winner for the Joplin Business Journal’s (JBJ) second annual Health Care Heroes Awards.
The JBJ’s Health Care Heroes Awards recognize individuals and organizations for their outstanding efforts in promoting and providing health care services as well as educating the communities they serve.
The Health Care Heroes Awards are granted to people according to nine designated categories, including Community Outreach, Medical Clinics, Physician, Nurse, Health Care Provider – Non-Physician, Professional Staff, Volunteers, Outstanding Achievement in Health Care Education and Lifetime Achievement
Marianella was chosen as a winner for the Community Outreach category for her involvement and various efforts toward educating the four states communities about health, fitness and tennis. |
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Tennis Collectables of America Feature |
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The Tennis Collectables of America recently featured the Millennium in their quarterly newsletter. Below is the article in PDF format.
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The Millennium embraces the roots of Tennis |
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The origins of tennis can be traced back to ancient times. As a state-of-the-art, modern facility, the Millennium Tennis and Fitness Club finds it important to ensure the roots of tennis are not forgotten.
The Millennium has joined two tennis organizations that work to preserve the history of the game, the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Tennis Collectors of America (TCA). As non-profit organizations, both the International Tennis Hall of Fame and TCA work to keep modern tennis enthusiasts in touch with the past.
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Collecting for "love of the game" |
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Tennis enthusiast maintains are wooden racket collection among other memorabilia
Today she has more than 2,000 vintage wooden, tennis rackets, but Marianella Padron never intended to begin a collection. "I started purchasing tennis racket to decorate my college dorm room, but then I just kept purchasing them, " she said Padron, executive director of tennis for Millennium Tennis and Fitness Club in Joplin. "After I had around 300 rackets, that's when I started to get serious." |
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