The Importance Of A Special Place At The Tri County Ymca

Collectively, recreation centers or gyms have had an impact upon several collective lives, effecting our sociological imagination. As an example, a whole new

March 29, 1998 was just another typical day for headline news in Sioux Falls. The Argus Leader was filled with your everyday politics, sports, entertainment, weather, and life news. Eight inmates serving life sentence in the South Dakota State Penitentiary met to discuss better living conditions for all prisoners (Steen). On a more positive note, the annual Sioux Empire water festival was held at the University of Sioux Falls. Around 2,200 fourth graders, from surrounding communities, gather to learn more about the abundance of their natural resources, and how to preserve them. Thirty booths were set up at the site displaying how to make snow, how to snorkel, and how to make bubbles the size of humans (Olson). As far as youth sports, nothing was more popular than the tri-state basketball tournament held every year in Sioux Falls. The event attracted over 2,900 athletes as well 289 teams (“Tri-State Crowns 30 Champions 5C”).

The Young Men's Christian Association ("YMCA" or in the USA "the Y") is a worldwide movement of more than 45 million members from 124 national federations affiliated through the World Alliance of YMCAs. Founded on June 6, 1844 in London, England by George Williams, the goal of the organization was putting Christian principles into practice, achieved by developing "a healthy spirit, mind, and body." The YMCA is a federated organization made up of local and national organizations in voluntary association. Today, YMCAs are open to all, regardless of faith, social class, age, or gender. The World Alliance of YMCAs is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dear Editor, it has come to my attention that the community pool is in rough shape. We have had issues in the past with the pool and I believe we need to fix them. The pool is in a great place accessible to almost everyone in the community. I believe if we take the step to fixing up the pool and making it a fun and safe place we can have great benefits. For one, we will need funds. We can host fundraisers, different events, cookouts, etc. Second it may be a way to keep kids out of trouble and in a safe place, where they are being supervised by train lifeguards. Diving boards and adding a slide may be a great addition that could bring more people to the pool. Also adding a concession stand may draw more people and bring in more funds. Lowering

The pool is not used and funded enough to keep it running since City of Toronto no longer runs programs. City of Toronto pulled out because the pool and its programs were not used enough by the community. So, if advertised and promoted enough City of Toronto may decide to collaborate again. Otherwise, it is crucial that we find another (community) partner. Additionally, the Pan Am centre offers some competition for community use, however it may be possible to partner with the centre to offer joint programs and encourage use. Another option to raise funds could be renting the pool out to members of the community (if there was enough interest), but this would have to be coordinated by the school, or a third-party. In my opinion the students of our school deserve to be consulted on the issue, as I know that it is not just important to me, and my friends would gladly come up with more ideas on how to keep it from having to close.

My participation in the YMCA NSW Youth Parliament resulted in my most meaningful accomplishment, the Advocacy Shield. The Advocacy Shield was presented to the Committee who had the best public consultation with their bill representing the needs of the community. The program and award reflects my desire to advocate for my community and create change.

This Museum, here in Austin, is very much a part of my life and being able to help others learn about STEAM related groups is also important to me along with politics. This is where I learned what respect truly is. The Thinkery is somewhere that ideas of all kind are brought forth and sometimes they seem so out of the books but respecting someone's ideas is too great of a responsibility that we all need to try taking up.while in my classes at school and around my community I always keep myself honest. Turning in my work on time admitting to when I just haven’t prepared for a test as much as I needed to or even knowing when something is wrong and telling the right people. I myself have been in situations where a classmate was in trouble or something was wrong and I knew it was a time where I could not stand idly by I had, to be honest with myself about the seriousness of the situation and tell the right people.One other important part of my life is being involved as much as possible in all the groups my school has to offer. I care immensely about every new idea presented to me by my friends, peers, family, teachers, and co-workers I go about not only using my own core values but the values the YMCA displays that are in line exactly with

It was a humid, and hot July day. It was an exciting day because my parents, my brother, and I was going to go to Bermuda very soon. My brother kept yelling at me telling me to hurry up. Really, I was just too excited, there was not much time left and the great marine adventure awaited.

During my experience at the YMCA, there were things that I did not know but learned. For instance, I previously worked at the YMCA in their Safe’ & Sound program but I did not the history behind the organization and what the acronym meant. I was not really surprised by the YMCA’s services since I worked there but I was surprised where the organization was first established and how much it has grown over the years. It is really unbelievable how much YMCA brings people together regardless of their background and age.

Summer lengthens the days and eases the schedule. Paces slow and creativity blossoms with free play and the openness of outdoor spaces. The seemingly endless energy of children fuels their minds and with feet running they are off to discover, invent, create and more.

I feel like I had a learning experience with the YMCA. I learned a lot about myself that I can use in my professional life. For example, the YMCA and the people I worked with did not hand me anything to do, instead they challenged me to do what I thought was best for the organization. I am a person who loves to be given guidelines, deadlines, and instructions, so without these I was a little lost at first. I learned that as a health educator I need to go out and do what I feel like is best for my community. I know how to do needs assessments, implement, and evaluate a program, and no one is going to walk me through that anymore. This was my first ‘out side of school’ health education experience, which helped me learn to be more independent

On November 1, 2016 the staff of Blue Mountain Community College opened up their pool for use of two more years by the local swim teams. This summer, the local swim teams including Pendleton High School, Hermiston High School and the town club, Pendleton Swim Association were concerned they would not have a pool for this winter’s season and for future seasons. After attending many conferences meetings and fighting for their pool, the swim teams managed to persuade the college board to keep the Pendleton campus pool open for two more years. With these added two years it is vital that the teams move quickly to not only raise money for a new pool, but also to design a reasonable plan that will create interest within the community. Through thorough research I have come to the conclusion that the best solution to this issue is to build a new pool located next to the already existing Pendleton Aquatic Center. Placing a new indoor pool next to the Pendleton Aquatic Center would be cost beneficial because it would already use the existing filtration system. Not only does the location benefit by allowing the facilities to use already existing equipment, but it also brings the pool closer to the high school. Having the pool located closer to the school will allow it to have more uses from the school. As well as keeping the swim teams alive, a new pool will allow for other recreational and aquatic uses. Finally, pools are not meant to be built for one soul purpose. By adding a new

The YMCA was first established in the United States in the 1800s as a non-profit Christian organization that focused on physical and mental wellbeing of the public. The YMCA promotes physical and intellectual development in the community by offering programs geared toward general healthiness enrichments. In addition, the organization has a kindergarten program when local and state funding are unavailable and training courses for individuals in technical and secretarial skills (YMCA, n.d.). The agency programs are continuously changing to provide accommodations to individuals and families within the community. The YMCA (n.d.) mission is “to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all”. The organization is

The social world I have chosen to put under scrutiny and further analyze through sociological views is the world of fitness centres and gyms. Gyms have many different stigmas surrounding them along with the people that attend them but ultimately, everyone who is a member or decides to go has one goal in mind; these members wish to be a better version of themselves than they were before. Every gym forms its own kind of little community because those who attend create certain groups. The citizens or members within the society are there to achieve the same objective and can relate to one another based on how they share similar goals, aspirations, and mentalities. There are many different aspects that create the gym/fitness centre social

Long ago, fitness clubs used to be a place where people make visit solely for the purpose of health improvement and nothing more. However, such purpose is no longer valid anymore in today’s dynamic world. In fact, many of the people today, primarily the young adults, are patronizing fitness clubs in a group of friends instead of being alone. In conjunction with that it is also within observation that many young adults are also taking the advantage of fitness clubs as a place to expand their social networking activities rather than just sticking solely