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August 2 - New Session Swim Lessons Begin August 2 - After School Member Registration 4-6pm August 6 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am August 9-13 - Rocket Man Camp
August 10 - Book Club 5:30pm
August 11 - COPD Support Group 10am
August 13 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am
August 16 - After School Open Registration 4-6pm
August 16-20 - Soccer Camp
August 17 - Bright Beginings Shopping Day
August 18 - Babysitting Class 9am-2pm ($30/$40)
August 19 - Bright Beginnings Shopping Day
August 20 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am
August 20 - Lively Pool Closes
August 21 - Pain Management 9am ($35/$$45)
August 25 - COPD Support Group 10am
August 26-29 - YMCA Closed for Annual Faciliy Maintenace
August 27 - Last Day of Summer Camp
August 31 - Book Club 5:30pm
September 3 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am
September 6 - Labor Day YMCA Closed
September 7 - Y Walkers 11:30am
September 8 - COPD Support Group 10am
September 10 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am
September 13 - New Session Swim Lessons Begin
September 14 - Pain Management 9am ($35/$45)
September 14 - New Session Home School Fitness ($7/$27)
September 14 - New Session Gymnastics ($125/$150)
September 17 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am September 18 - Kekoka Music Festival
September 22 - COPD Support Group 10am
September 24 - Breast Feeding Encounter Group 10am |
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 Volunteers Needed for Bright Beginnings
Looking to make a difference in a local child's life? The Northern Neck Family YMCA has the perfect opportunity for you. Come shop with us and 100 Lancaster County children at the Kilmarnock Walmart during 2 sessions Tuesday, August 17 and/or Thursday, August 19. Each volunteer will help a child start the school year with confidence and self esteem by picking out new school clothes.
If you cannot shop, but would like to help, we accept monetary donations: $150 provides clothes and a backpack with school supplies, $125 provides clothes, $25 a backpack with supplies.
Please contact Donna McGrath at donna.mcgrath@peninsulaymca.org for more details, . |
The Y is Now of Facebook!
Become a fan of the Northern Neck Family YMCA on Facebook and receive important updates and announcements such as program registration dates, facility closings, group exercise specialty classes, ways to volunteer, and much more!
Do you have any photos from Y functions or programs? If so, tag us so others can see what the Y is all about. |
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Register Now for August Programs
Preschool Swim Lessons: ages 3-5, August 2-12 (Mon-Thu 5 or 5:30 based on skill) $30 members / $50 for others
Adult Swim Lessons: ages 18+, August 2-12 (Mon-Thu 6pm), $30 members / $50 others
Full Contact Football: ages 8-13, August 7-November 13, $50.00 members / $75.00 others Rocket Man Camp: ages 12-17, August 9-13, $60 members / $80 others
Soccer Camp: ages 6-14, August 16-20, $30 members / $50 others
Babysitting 101: ages 11-15, August 18, $30 members / $40 others |
Northern Neck YMCA's Annual Maintenance Closing
Every year in August the Northern Neck Family YMCA closes for a few days to tend to extensive housekeeping duties. This year the Main Facility and Aquatic Center will be closed Thursday, August 26 through Sunday, August 29.
Stay acitive during our closure by visiting other local area YMCA's, such as the Middlesex Family YMCA and the Richmond County Family YMCA. |
Kekoka Music Festival  Announcing the 1st Annual Kekoka Music Festival! Live from the Riverfront Stage at Camp Kekoka on beautiful Indian Creek! Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 18, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The Kekoka Music Festival features live acoustic rock and country blues from original artists Jonah Smith, Robbin Thompson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Colleen Burke, Mary and the Janes, Wes Charlton, and Jim Wright. Come by land or sea, rain or shine. Tickets are $25, under 12 free. Advanced tickets only- available online at www.kekokamusicfestival.org or at your local Metropolitan YMCA branch. Delicious local seafood, BBQ, burgers, and various beverages available for purchase. Fabulous music, great food, good times for outdoor concert lovers of all ages. Feel free to bring umbrellas, chairs, blankets, and kids but please leave coolers and pets at home. Let the sweet sounds of live music and festival camaraderie enrich your soul while you help give a kid the summer of a lifetime. Cabin rental and Tent Campsites are available on site for more information or to reserve e-mail info@kekokamusicfetival.org. Kekoka Musical Festival proceeds help fund scholarships for kids to attend Camp Kekoka, located in Kilmarnock, Virginia, along the shores of Indian Creek, with access to the Chesapeake Bay. Camp Kekoka is the Metropolitan YMCA's only residential camp, serving children ages 9 to 15 with a fun and healthy summertime mix of traditional enriching camp activities and water sports. More information about Camp Kekoka and the Kekoka Music Festival, visit the website at www.kekokamusicfestival.org, email info@kekokamusicfestival.org, or call (804) 435-3616. |
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. Ceck 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 Refresh
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Click on Browse Ideas and Vote on the right side of the screen
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Click on Join Refresh everything in the lower left side of the next screen
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Create a login and password and answer a few basic questions on the pop up screen
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Click done and you will bounce back to the home page - at this point you've just created your login
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Click on Browse Ideas and Vote again and you will be at the voting page
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Go to the search box in the upper right corner and type in Activate or Peninsula.
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When you see our project in the list- Activate the Peninsula - click on the vote now button
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Once 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. |
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. |
YMCA Mission: To put Christian principles into practice
through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
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