Bloom Archives
Category: Health & Fitness
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Two Bloomington Women Donate Kidneys, Attend World-Record Gathering of Donors
Though they are fast friends now, Kate Griggs and Anita Rausch might never have become acquainted if it were not for kidney transplants. Both…
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At Cutters Soccer Club, Everybody Gets to Play
On Saturday mornings, Karst Farm Park is home to Cutters Soccer Club, a Bloomington organization dedicated to youth soccer. Looking around, what most people…
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Positive Link Primary Care Clinic Offers Hope for Slowing HIV/AIDS Infection
For the first time in the 17 years that Jill Stowers has been working in the field, she has hope of slowing the spread…
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Back Handspring Anyone? Stage Flight Circus Arts Is a Place to Learn from Pros
Clint and Hannah Bobzein, the owners of Stage Flight, are professional circus artists. After years of international touring, they settled in Bloomington in 2014.…
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Fred Astaire Studio Offers Dance Lessons and Chance for Romance
When Dmitriy Volodko boarded a plane to the United States from Ukraine six years ago, it was the first time he had seen the…
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Bloomington’s Pickleball Ambassador Goes to Spain for World Tournament
It seems fitting that a man who calls himself the unofficial pickleball ambassador in Bloomington would travel all the way to Spain to participate…
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New Program Offers Sports For People with Disabilities
It’s taken a few years, but the students and faculty in the recreational therapy program at Indiana University have created an adaptive sports program…
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Sunday Hoops at the Y: A 20-Year-Old Tradition
Many of the faces have changed over the past two decades, but not the bond that brings them together—basketball. Every Sunday at 8 a.m.,…
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Group Is Helping Bloomington Become A More Dementia-Friendly Community
Julie Hill, life enrichment director at Bell Trace senior living community, has a personal stake in promoting Bloomington as a dementia-friendly community.