Month: June 2013
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Media Arts Camp Spurs Youth Creativity
Creative students from throughout the Metro area are converging on the Boll Family YMCA for the Y-Arts Summer Institute, which involves them in filming, music production and more. New this year is a partnership with a local artist and a channel for communicating via social media with students from Great Britain.
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“Lunch Buddies” Forge Bonds
Students from the Y Detroit Leadership Academy enjoyed weekly lunches this school year with their Lunch Buddies, a program through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit that matched young people with adult mentors from Quicken Loans.
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Plymouth Run Celebrates Dad
Plymouth is one the prettiest towns in Metro Detroit, and the Plymouth YMCA is bringing a couple of thousand people to run around and through its picturesque streets on Sunday. The annual Plymouth YMCA Father’s Day run is one of the more popular on the Southeast Michigan race circuit. It raises money for the Strong…
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ICan Achieve Celebrates With Formal Ball
The young people of the Metro Youth YMCA’s ICan Achieve program celebrated the end of the school year, and all their hard-won accomplishments, with a formal ball at the Boll Family YMCA. The young people enjoyed dancing, food and a photo booth as they marked the end of another successful year.
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Seniors Get A Second Chance at Prom
Senior prom isn’t limited to fresh-faced high school graduates. At the Livonia YMCA, the staff threw a prom for, well, actual seniors of the 50-and-up variety.