BRIDGEVILLE — Members clad in workout gear and holding water bottles and towels quietly returned Saturday to the health club where a gunman killed three women, as calm replaced the chaos of just a few weeks ago.

Workers inside the LA Fitness took down white plastic sheeting behind the cavernous facility's front glass doors before unlocking them, opening the club for the first time since the Aug. 4 shooting.

"This is a happy nice place and I think it's important that we come back because things like that can't control our lives," said Dorrine Green, of Upper St. Clair, who was one of about 15 people waiting at the club when it opened at 8 a.m.

Many of those waiting were looking forward to getting back to their normal routine, which was halted the night George Sodini entered the club with a gym bag full of guns.

The 48-year-old man killed three women and injured nine others in a Latin dance class before killing himself. Sodini targeted the class full of women after what he described on a hate-filled Web page as years of rejection and loneliness.

In the days following the bloodshed, the police tape that had cordoned off the health club was replaced by a small makeshift memorial of flowers and notes.