Lehman Fam­ily Train­ing Cen­ter Nears Com­ple­tion

MISHAWAKA – The long-awaited ar­rival of the Lehman Fam­ily Train­ing Cen­ter will soon ar­rive. Start­ing with fund­ing in 2019, the pro­ject has seen its ups-and-downs but will fi­nally open later this se­mes­ter. In an in­ter­view with Bethel’s Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer Jerry White, he said that the of­fi­cial open­ing date will be very close to the orig­i­nally sched­uled open­ing date. 

In an email sent to the stu­dent body on Jan. 5, some pic­tures showed a pre­view of the train­ing fa­cil­ity. White said that sig­nif­i­cant progress was made over break.  

“We re­ally started putting the fi­nal touches to­gether,” White said. “We had some of­fice fur­ni­ture brought in, as well as a ma­jor­ity of the ath­letic equip­ment de­liv­ered.”  

Stu­dents can ex­pect the fa­cil­ity to host dif­fer­ent ex­er­cise ac­tiv­i­ties in the fa­cil­i­ties com­mu­nity room, but these types of the ac­tiv­i­ties will be held in smaller num­bers due to COVID-19. When the fa­cil­i­ties open, COVID-19 re­stric­tions will be en­forced, in­clud­ing so­cial-dis­tanc­ing re­stric­tions, clean­ing pro­to­cols and ca­pac­ity re­stric­tions. 

When the fa­cil­ity does open, how­ever, White said it will be avail­able for all stu­dents. 

“We will open it to every­body,” White said. “Shortly af­ter it opens, the hours will be re­leased.”