Doing More For Our Children One Step at a Time

Swim lessons are starting tomorrow for our winter session! It is not too late to sign up for the term that runs from January 19 until March 6. Contact our Aquatics Director Georgette Keator at 413-499-7650 ext. 11. or click here to register your child online.

We are happy to announce that we will be offering Kid's Night Out once a month in 2010 spanning from February to May and then picking back up again from September to December. The exact dates of these events can be found here. For those of you who do not know exactly what Kid's Night Out entails, it is a nighttime event that spans from 6- 9 p.m. on a Saturday night. During this time period children come to the YMCA and get the chance to watch a film, swim in the pool and play basketball and games in the gymnasium. This is all planned and monitored by our Afterschool Director and his staff. The age range for this event is 5-12 years of age. We want children to be able to meet one another within our community and to make new friends during the event. Parents get the opportunity to breath for a night and have some quality time with friends, family, or even themselves knowing that their children are having fun at the YMCA. I am glad that we are able to make this night more stable by being able to offer it on a monthly basis. If you miss one then you can always check out the website and know when the next one will be occurring.

From one of our babysitting surveys I was told that a person was unaware of what our babysitting services would include. Babysitting at the YMCA is a 90 minute service where a parent can bring their child with them and have them safely watched by a certified babysitter for $4 a child. This is convenient for parents who do not use childcare, but still want to enjoy our fitness facility, fitness classes, pool, and more. We want to bring this back so that we are still sticking to our nationwide "family friendly" image.