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In my younger days,"The Y" was a major player in community life. At the age of 11, I took after-school swimming lessons there. In my early or mid teens, I took guitar lessons there because my mother made it a condition of getting a guitar for my birthday. They also ran numerous summer camps, although I don't recall whether or not I ever went to one. And as I moved into my later teens and twenties, it was a reasonably cheap and reasonably clean place to stay in any town you cared to visit, as long as you didn't require a lot of privacy or other amenities.
The pandemic has taken its toll on young people and socially marginalized groups, who tend to rely heavily on the services of their neighbourhood Y. With the summer holidays approaching and some of the nicer outdoor-activity weather already here, this seemed like the right time to make a donation to the Ottawa area YMCA.
Despite our stay-at-home order, many YMCA services are considered essential and are still available; there are also carefully crafted plans for re-opening the others when circumstances permit:
https://www.ymcaywca.ca/
Roll out those lazy, hazy crazy days of summer!
The pandemic has taken its toll on young people and socially marginalized groups, who tend to rely heavily on the services of their neighbourhood Y. With the summer holidays approaching and some of the nicer outdoor-activity weather already here, this seemed like the right time to make a donation to the Ottawa area YMCA.
Despite our stay-at-home order, many YMCA services are considered essential and are still available; there are also carefully crafted plans for re-opening the others when circumstances permit:
https://www.ymcaywca.ca/
Roll out those lazy, hazy crazy days of summer!
