Each year, more than 1.5 million individuals suffer a fracture due to bone disease.

A risk that four in 10 women over the age of 50 in the United States will experience in their lifetimes with a broken hip, spine, or wrist.

A group of Ashley women meet two mornings each week at the Ashley Senior Citizens Center to help reduce that risk to themselves.

Active program member Hildegard Weisser, 96, of Ashley, is proof that age is not a limiting factor to the Bone Building exercises.

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