A “Fit A Thon” fundraiser for the Long Beach International Peace Choir will be held from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 in Seal Beach’s Edison Park.
The event will include four temporary fitness stations and is expected to draw about 50 participants.
There is no price of admission, but donations will be accepted.
The money raised by the Fit A Thon will help pay for the choir to travel to Idaho. Seal Beach resident Ann Crowley, who submitted the application to the Department of Development Services, said International Peace Choir was a non-profit children’s choir that sings and dances to promote world peace.
The children are 5 to 18 years old and wear costumes representing their countries of origin.
Crowley said the group was going to Idaho in July to record a CD and visit a ranch.
Money raised at the Fit A Thon will help pay travel expenses.
“We’ve done a wide variety of fundraisers and we thought we would do something different,” Crowley said.
She said that this might be the first public fundraiser the International Peace Choir has held.
Crowley said organizers were expecting 40 to 50 people to attend the event.
The public notice of the special event, published in the Feb. 9 edition of the Sun, also said 50 people were expected.
Also, the director of Seal Beach’s Community Services Department confirmed that permanent outdoor exercise stations could be coming to Seal Beach parks in the near future. While the Fit A Thon exercise stations would be temporary, city staff is drawing up a request for proposals to design and install exercise stations in city parks, according to Director of Community Services Tim Kelsey.
“Our goal is to put them in different parks in town,” Kelsey said. “We don’t want to have them in one location.”
Kelsey said he would like to have the request for proposals prepared for the City Council to look at by March 12. He said it was his goal to have the exercise equipment installed in parks before summer.
Kelsey said the exercise stations could be as simple as a bar for stretching.
