December 2025 Update: Holiday Hours, Events & End-of-Year Deals

December 18, 2025

Riverdale Fitness Mill – December 2025!

December WOW!

We cannot believe that another year at the Fit Mill has blown by. We’re at 400 members and last month was a record 775 individuals for group classes. We’re averaging about 65 visits per day so it’s not crowded. All this effort and commitment is a testament to all of the members – You, and all of the staff.

Important Dates:

December 20th, Spin and Core at 9am with Izzy is on.
December 20th, Stuff-A-Stocking, 10am to noonish, we’re raising funds for Meals on Wheels. See Front Desk.
December 20th, CLOSED at Noon for our staff get together.
December 21st, Sunday, open as usual at 8:30am
December 24th, closed at Noon (12)
December 25th, 26th closed Christmas and Boxing Day
December 27, Saturday, open as usual at 8:30am
December 31st, New Years Eve, closed at noon
January 1st, closed for New Years Day.
January 2nd, all systems go as usual, check Website for any refinements.

HOUSE KEEPING

I’d like to acknowledge all of the Riverdale Team:

Front Desk, Super helpful and friendly: Donna, Maham, Robyn, Teagan, Ella, Shea, Sophie, Stephanie and Lesel.

Our Group Class Instructors are like no others: Jo-Anna, Ivonne, Donna, Julie, Christa, Stephanie, Sharon, Michelle, and Sandra.

Our Personal Trainers are the best fitness professionals one would like to have in a gym like ours: Rachel, Izzy and Jon.

There are two behind the scenes entities, Addie and Emry at Across the Board Branding (who do our Social Media) and Paul at Affinitydesign.ca who manages our web site. It takes 21 of us to click and make the Fit Mill work for our members and I thank all of you.

Housekeeping: Remove Your Winter Footwear!!!!

ALSO, please remove your footwear upon entry, we cannot have sand, salt and mud spread everywhere – especially the guys who scoot to the change room. It can be a real mess! Thank you!

Christmas Season Events and Fund Raisers

Stuff-A-Stocking is on after a hiatus of some years. Join us Saturday December 20th at 10 am for the festivities. Coffee and donuts will be available as the PT team, Front Desk and Dave perform tremendous feats of fitness all in the name of charity for Meals on Wheels. See the posters or ask at front desk for info and to contribute.

We’re also doing our annual SPCA food and goodie drive for our 4 legged friends at Orangeville SPCA. Donations at the Christmas tree by the treadmills are accepted until December 31st.

As we have for the past 7 years, we sponsored Caledon Soccer this past year for 4 teams bearing our logo and name. All of the little kids…., so much fun and bonding for them.

Member Of The Month

Natalie Fabro

Natalie, a retired teacher, joined the Fit Mill just last March and has been here over 150 times already. She was referred by Jo-Anna to come check us out and she signed up for Personal Training immediately at 6:30am with Rachel.

She had been at a competitor’s gym but felt it was a bad fit and was also doing some physio at the time. Fitting in here was easy, she likes the energy and sense of community. She’s here for total health, both physical and mental.

As an aside, and since Natalie brought it up, we’ll be doing a seminar with Sandra Crowe in January 2026 called Move Your Mood: How Exercise and Movement Supports Mental Health. Details to follow.

Natalie can easily spend 2 hours here each visit. She loves both the machines and classes and since she and Rachel mapped out a routine, it’s easier for her to remember the steps and keep track of her personal progress. Our Personal Trainers can easily set up a charting for each member to follow and they’re maintained so members can grab their chart and keep track.

Natalie enjoys journaling and writing fiction just for herself, hiking and is an avid reader. She prefers to focus on 1 or two things at a time, but not necessarily long term hobbies. If she’s not doing all of that, she also has 3 dogs and a cat named Jäger to keep her even busier..