Those employees have families to support and are forced to cut their spending elsewhere within our community, further perpetuating the ripple. When small businesses fail, they are faced with decisions to lay off their employees, their friends, their co-workers, their community. When our local community is no longer able to support a small business, that small business fails because most do not have customers beyond their small towns. As small businesses suffer, so will every other industry and profession around them. They are the heart and soul of our community. Without a definitive timeline, we are once again facing a scary situation.Īmerica relies on small businesses and the people they support. COVID- 19 is not, and we are a very large gym with very large overhead. However, the fire was an insurable event. My husband has been diligently saving since the fire to prepare us for another situation such as the one we are in. Without working capital and no certainty of revenue or a way to continue within their current product or service offering in this market, these small businesses must close completely because they are not able to make their mortgage payments, pay their employees, and cover their other fixed expenses. Gymnastics and cheerleading gyms, as well as many other small businesses often rely on a small amount of working capital. We are watching gyms around the country shut their doors for the last time knowing they will never be able to reopen them. We are watching a rippling effect throughout our small town of Fishers and our state of Indiana where 29,000 workers are getting laid off from COVID-19 this week alone.
GROWIN UP IN LITTLE PINK HOUSES HOW TO
To teach our athletes how to rise in the face of adversity, how to persevere even when it’s scary, and how to keep working harder and harder until you achieve. We have been called and taught to help and teach. The world around us is suffering from COVID-19, and I feel as though we still are not allowed inside to help. Watching as seven fire trucks are parked outside the gym fighting flames in a foam pit while we are all helplessly standing by on the outside. Our #deveausfamily.Īs I sit here tonight, it feels like we are once again watching. It was beyond heartwarming to see everyone who reached out to us from around the world to show their support and help our community. Our DeVeau’s family rallied around us in thousands last year after the fire. These amazing teachers at this gym are what formed our amazing community.
GROWIN UP IN LITTLE PINK HOUSES PROFESSIONAL
Shannon, Amy, Mandy, me, Lindsay, Blaize, Annie, Lyla, Chelsea, Hannah, Hannah, Stacy, Maddie, Ciara, and dozens more former athletes of ours began not only their athletic careers but also their professional careers with us too. Even more amazing is that through her teaching, she inspired so many of her students to follow in her footsteps. That same gym is where my mom taught athletes who found their own passions to become doctors, teachers, lawyers, and countless other professions. Olympian-Samantha Peszek who started with us as a preschooler (a very rare occurrence in sports these days).
It has created dozens of college gymnasts and athletes and has even had our own U.S. In over 35 years, that gym has taught thousands of young athletes how to work hard, persevere, be brave, stand tall, and try relentlessly until they succeeded. Eight weeks later, on Wednesday, February 28th, we all stood together watching our home, our gym, on fire before our eyes while there was nothing we could do. My husband and I bought the gym from her last January, 3 weeks after our daughter, and youngest child, was born. She taught me that same love for teaching, and I never realized how much I love and miss it until weeks like this hit.
She took that same love for teaching and applied it to teach herself how to coach, mentor, and run one of the greatest small businesses in Indiana. Without a teacher, my mom taught herself and her friends how to tumble in her backyard. A teacher from Connersville, IN-a small town like John Cougar sings about- without gymnastics schools or people to teach it back in the 1960s. After their divorce, I watched my mom navigate her new role as a mother, coach, mentor, boss, and businesswoman. Opening the gym in 1982, my parents started the legacy of our great gymnastics’ teams. It has stood through divorce, a fire, and now COVID- 19. Our gym has weathered many trials and tribulations. My gym … our gym … DeVeau’s School of Gymnastics. Growing up in Carmel and Fishers, I always felt safe here in in the middle of our country where I loved John Cougar, his song Little Pink Houses, and my life that revolved around the gym.
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