National Gymnastics Day open house set

Gymnastics coach Jeff Ide and Fairfield Park and Recreation Department will join forces with gymnastics clubs across the county to ?Turn the World Upside Down? in honor of National Gymnastics Day Sept. 22.

As part of National Gymnastics Day, gymnists, families, friends and enthusiats from gynmastics clubs nationwide will turn upside down, snap a photo and share it on USA Gynmastics? Facebook page and raise funds for Children?s Miracle Network. Since 2001, gymnastics clubs across the country have raised more than $1.7 million for Children?s Miracle Network.

National Gymnastics Day also will celebrate the success of Team USA at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

An open house is set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22 in the third-floor gynmastics room of the Roosevelt Community Recreation Center. Anyone interested in gymnastics is free to come in and participate.

Organizers say it is important that all Upside Down participants be inverted at the same time across the country to Turn the World Upside Down together on the dot.

The number of nationwide participants on the website at usagym.org, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

For information, call Ide at 319-461-5300.