Potomac Community Turns Out for Rec Center Celebration
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Potomac Community Turns Out for Rec Center Celebration

Children spread out over the Potomac Community Center fields enjoying inflatables and games.

Children spread out over the Potomac Community Center fields enjoying inflatables and games. Photo by Deb Stevens.

By Peggy McEwan

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

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Photo by Peggy McEwan

Members of the A Sharp Jazz Combo perform at PCRC Sunday. All the group’s members are students at Winston Churchill High School.

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Photo by Peggy McEwan

Santos Mandapati, 11, AKA Shazam, and his brother Aditya, 5, as Star Shazam, show off costumes they made at the PCRC celebration.

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Photo by Peggy McEwan

Members of the Martial Arts Health Dance Society of Greater Washington demonstrate one of their dances at PCRC Sunday. The group meets from 2:30–5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the center.

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Photo by Deb Stevens

Sophia Newfeld pushing the Big Ball at Potomac Community Center’s 30th anniversary celebration.

Several hundred people, young, old, and in between, joined together Sunday to celebrate thirty years of community service by Potomac Community Recreation Center on Falls Road.

While demonstrations of center activities took place inside, the back field was set up with special activities including booths, game and inflatables.

There was even a chance to learn Pickle Ball.

“A huge Congrats to all Friends of Potomac Community Center for partnering with us for an extremely successful 30th Anniversary Celebration, said Peter J. Selikowitz, Center Director, in an email to many people. “Accolades are streaming in.

“Thanks for contributing in a large way to making the Potomac Community Center a staple for health and wellness for our community.”

Special thanks went to Pam Yerg, Allen Cohen, Penny Heltzer, Adam Horowitz, Alex, Harold Heltzer, Alex Detitta, Luke Sumberg, Alex Detitta, Tony Hsia, PCC staff member Amy Kertesz, among others.

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