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News: YMCAs across metro Detroit hoping to set world record Thursday
Featured on Hometownlife.com On Thursday, June 18, YMCAs across Metropolitan Detroit will help set the Guinness World Record™ for the World’s Largest Swim Lesson™ in 24 Hours. Organized by a coalition of the nation’s water safety experts and training organizations called Team World’s Largest Swim Lesson™ (WLSL), the event aims to expose the importance of…
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Featured on WDIV video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Channel 4 visits the Y to learn about free swim lessons on Belle Isle for Detroit kids ages 8-13, as part of the Detroit Swims program. Lessons will kick off on June 20, 2015. The Y provides swim suits, caps, and goggles. Parents or guardians may register…
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Looking for activities for your kids to do this summer? Tune into this episode of the Zing Podcast to hear about how to keep your child active when school is out! https://soundcloud.com/quickenloans/things-your-kids-can-do-this-summer
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Cassandra Spratling, a writer with the Detroit Free Press, tells readers how her swim lessons at the Boll Family YMCA in Downtown Detroit are guiding her down the path to becoming a proficient swimmer. Swim lessons at the Y are for individuals of all stages of lives, from babies to young adults to seniors! It’s never too early…
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video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Featured on WDIV Channel 4 stops at Pattengill Elementary School in Berkley to talk to Natalie Smith, a participant of Girls on the Run, about how the program has inspired her to set some lofty goals.
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Featured in the Farmington Press By Sherri Kolade skolade@candgnews.com FARMINGTON HILLS — It all started a little over half a century ago, when the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit decided to form a branch in Farmington Hills in 1965. Since then, thousands of families and youth have called the Farmington Family YMCA home, including longtime member…
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Featured in DBusiness The Board of Directors of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit announced the election of new officers for a two-year term to its historic Board of Directors. James M. Nicholson, vice president, PVS Chemicals, Inc., has been elected as the 54th Chair of the Board in its 163 years of existence. Following two…
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News: Girls on the Run teaches much more than running at Detroit YMCA
Featured on Fox 2 Deena Centofanti, Health Reporter at Fox 2, stopped at Webber Elementary in Lake Orion to tell the story of Girls on the Run and how it teaches girls lifelong skills about confidence and independence.
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With a $1,500 grant from the Community Foundation of Plymouth, the YMCA will have even more opportunity to nurture the potential of teens through a new summer Leaders in Training program.
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Featured on Local 4 video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Ilitich Charities donated $25,000 to the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit’s Swims program, which provides Detroit youth with free swimming lessons to address the fact that young people in under-served communities often do not learn critical water safety and swimming skills to keep them safe. This is the third year in a…