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By Tiffany Goodwein

Fitness enthusiasts Zumba for HALO

Jun 21, 2020 | 6:35 PM

MEDICINE HAT AB- People looking to move to the groove all while supporting a good cause, took to their feet and their devices Saturday to Zumba for HALO.

The virtual event was organized by Kelsey Solberg .

” I was seeing the community come together with fundraisers around every corner with all kinds of different fundraisers and I got thinking, ‘how could we help? What could we do?,”‘ Solberg said.

” Zumba is so fun there’s nothing like it as a fitness class. It doesn’t really feel like you are working out, it feels more like a dance party and the cool thing about right now is if you never felt like attending an actual Zumba class it could be really inviting to do it in the comfort of your own home,” Solberg said.

From 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. participants could get moving to the latin-inspired cardio workout alongside six featured Medicine Hat Zumba instructors.

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” I know there are many friends and family in Medicine Hat whose family have been touched by it and need it and just heaven forbid if someone ever needed to or my family needed to, it would be something that would probably be life and death,” said Zumba instructor Jessica Bertelsen from Heartbreaker Dance and Fitness.

Bertelsen has been teaching Zumba for ten years and when she heard about the opportunity to help she quickly jumped in.

“When Kelsey contacted me and asked me about it and suggested the idea, I said ‘yes absolutely, it wasn’t even anything that occurred to me…I said sweet, lets do it, let take this and run and do it now, as soon as possible, and I think it is just a great way to give back to an organization that you never know when you need them,” she said.

Zumba for HALO will continue with clasess running from Friday June 26 until Tuesday June 30.

Participants are asked to provide a minimum $5.00 donation prior to joining the classes. Donations can be sent directly to HALO at treasurer@halorescue.ca.

Additional information about Zumba for HALO and how to enroll can be found on their Facebook page.