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Will your Y get $250,000 for free fitness and wellness programs
The Peninsula Metropolitan YMCA has applied for a grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project, and the only way we can get it is if you vote for us. Our project, "Activate the Peninsula," will ensure fitness, nutrition, and cooking education programs for everyone in our community, as well as fitness education for all children in our child care and child/youth watch programs.
Check the Pepsi Refresh website www.refresheverything.com or search Pepsi Refresh on August 1 to see if we are there. To do this: Click on the above address or search Pepsi RefreshClick on Browse Ideas and Vote on the right side of the screenClick on Join Refresh everything in the lower left side of the next screenCreate a login and password and answer a few basic questions on the pop up screenClick done and you will bounce back to the home page - at this point you've just created your loginClick on Browse Ideas and Vote again and you will be at the voting pageGo to the search box in the upper right corner and type in Activate or Peninsula.When you see our project in the list- Activate the Peninsula - click on the vote now buttonOnce you've created your login and password you can bookmark our page and go directly there to vote every day. We need your vote EVERYDAY in August to make this a reality for our YMCA. Please share this information with everyone you know - friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors, and other Y members. You can share through Facebook and Twitter by hitting the button that appears after you vote. This project will benefit each Y and the people in each of our communities. We can only win the Pepsi Refresh grant if the community supports our efforts to "Activate the Peninsula."
Any questions? Talk to any staff member at our Y to help you through the process.
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Bright Beginnings is a community outreach program that provides children in need with the fall clothing and school supplies needed to start the new school year with confidence and pride.
Newport News Family YMCA Shopping Date: August 17 & 19, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Opportunities to get involved:
· Be a volunteer shopper with a child on shopping day
· Sponsor a child - $150 sends one child on a shopping trip.
Be a Backpack Pal for our 2010 Bright Beginnings Event. Pick up a collection bag from the Welcome Center or from one of the yellow boxes in the lobby. There are labels on the zip-lock collection bags with a school supply wish list. Please place those items in the bag and return to one of the yellow boxes located in the lobby of the YMCA by August 10th.
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Sports & Fitness Camp
Registration is now open for Sports & Fitness Camp!
This end-of-summer camp helps youth and teens learn and sharpen skills utilized in a variety of traditional sports and games.
The camp runs 8/30/2010 thru 9/3/2010 from 8 am until 6 pm.
Cost is $70 for members and $85 for program participants.
Contact Andre' Moore with any questions at 245-0047 ext 218. |
Journey to Freedom 
Journey to Freedom is an 8-week Christ-centered small group study designed to help you make a change in your life. A failure to lay a proper foundation for change is the number one reason people don't succeed in transforming their life. Journey to Freedom will help you build this critical foundation by providing tools, support and motivation you need to achieve significant and lasting change.
Guided by Journey to Freedom's trained facilitators, you'll learn:
· What is needed to make real change, and why your
other attempts have failed.
· How to lay the foundation to solve any problem and
achieve any goal.
· How to silence you inner critic and find your true
purpose.
· The difference between intrinsic and extrinsic
motivation.
"I never realized how many people there were that shared the same issues. It's so freeing to be with others and share our experiences."
-Audrey
Please contact either Lisa Weinreich at Lisa.Weinreich@peninsulaymca.org or visit journeytofreedom.org for more details.
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| Annual August Newport News Family YMCA Shutdown
The Newport News branch closes at the end of August for our annual shutdown. Dates of shutdown will be Friday, August 27 - thru Sunday, August 29. During shutdown we upgrade needed areas, deep clean, and paint throughout the building.
Volunteers are always needed and appreciated. Please contact your favorite Y Director or sign up at the Welcome Center. |
