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imothy Weaver to o k a l e a p o f faith. E arlier this year, Timothy left his fulltime, salaried sales job to pursue his dream. He now serves as the owner and chief revenue officer of YourLife Gym, a 24/7 membershipbased West Hempfield Township gym located at 2301 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster. He had worked his way up in the car sales world, starting as a sales professional before becoming a finance director and eventually a general Timothy and Andrea Weaver of West Hempfield Township operate YourLife Gym. manager. He had the status and Obviously, I’m making less money, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other the salary, but, as he put it, some- but I 100% feel more fulfilled in my contemporaries but didn’t start consistently going to the gym view of life.” thing was still missing. “I’m a firm believer that money Timothy, an avid bodybuilder, until he was in college. He started only buys you a certain amount has been lifting weights since he working with a coach in 2016 and of things after a certain point,” he was 18 years old. He said that he started bodybuilding and performsaid. “I was able to take a step back. always admired the physiques of ing at shows soon after.
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Put on your dancing shoes. No experience necessary. Historic Rock Ford will host a Social Dance event Sunday, July 26, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Langmuir Education Room located on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster. Register by going to www .historicrockford.org/special -events/social-dance-1-8583h. Walk-ins will be welcome. Attendees are advised to wear clothes people can dance and move around in and flat-soled shoes that won’t stick or skid on the concrete floor, Historic Rock Ford executive director Christina McSherry said. People are not required to bring a dance partner. Visitors should bring water. The activity is recommended for peoples age 7 and up. There will be a nominal fee for nonmembers age 12 and up. The Rock Ford dancers will perform on the porch of the Hand Mansion at 1 p.m. “We started social dances last year because there was so much interest in our historic dance group,” said McSherry. “People were always asking, ‘Is there a place I can learn this? I’d love to try it.’ The historic dance group requires a pretty extensive commitment to practicing and getting a costume, so we were starting to think (that this) is a good way to have people try out English country dance, which is the type of dancing that the Hand family would have done.” McSherr y added, “English
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