Disability Action Center breaks ground new Fairmont recreation center
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Disability Action Center (DAC) held a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday at the site of the upcoming Wilfong Wellness Center in Fairmont.
DAC officials told 12 News that the center will provide a place for people with disabilities and the community at large to recreate and focus on physical fitness. The facility will include a fitness area, a multipurpose space and a gymnasium that will allow for basketball, volleyball, and pickleball.
'We want the center to not only serve our clients with disabilities, but the greater community, knowing that when we bring everyone together with the focus on health and focus on inclusion, that the entire community wins,' Disability Action Center Executive Director Julie Sole said.
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The DAC raised around $1.7 million over four years to fund this project. Funders included Senator Manchin, Senator Capito, a number of state officials, the Marion County Commission and Kevin and Donna Wilfong, whose family has been heavily involved with the disabled community in the area since 1958.
Kevin Wilfong's parents founded the first association in Marion County for people with developmental disabilities after his younger brother passed away from hydrocephalus. Wilfong said his contributions to the wellness center were very meaningful to him and that the facility will be designed to better serve people with disabilities in the area with features such as matts on the walls and wheelchair accessibility.
The Disability Action Center said it plans on working to get the Wilfong Wellness Center up and running as soon as possible.
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