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Castanet
January 6, 2022
Iron Energy Fitness Centre in West Kelowna is now operating without a business license after the city pulled its renewal over the gym’s fight against closure orders.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry issued an order on Dec. 22, forcing the closure of gyms and fitness facilities until Jan. 18, amid a surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases in B.C.
“We are still open and we are standing strong,” Iron Energy Fitness co-owner Brian Mark said Wednesday.
“We understand COVID is real and people have gotten sick. We have actually gotten sick, so that is why as owners we got vaccinated, asked people to wear masks, do social distancing. We did everything that they asked of us. When the new restrictions came out and they told us that we were going to have to close our gym — we decided that it wasn’t right.”
Mark says his the gym has 1,350 members.
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