Exercise Your Brain!
Join us at the Waynesboro Family YMCA on Wednesday, March 24, for a lecture on the importance of exercising your brain.
The event is called Exercise Your Brain! It is being held in conjunction with Big Read 2010 being sponsored by the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, which this year is focused on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
The event will be held on March 24th at noon at the Y.
You must preregister for Exercise Your Brain! by Monday, March 22. You can preregister at the front desk or by calling 540.943.9622.
The first 15 people to sign up and show up will receive a free copy of Fahrenheit 451.
Lose 2 Win!
The Waynesboro YMCA is kicking off a 10-week weight-loss competition for the community on Monday, March 15.
Lose 2 Win will determine who can lose the most weight/body fat in a healthy manner.
Participants will have four weigh-ins – during the weeks of March 15-19, April 5-9, April 26-30 and then the week of May 16-19.
You can also call the YMCA at 540.943.YMCA (9622) or e-mail waynesborofamilyymca@gmail.com.
Rookie Division awards set for Sunday
The awards ceremony for the Rookie Division of the YMCA youth basketball league is set for Sunday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m.
The ceremony will follow the final two games of the 2010 season in the Rookie Division. The consolation championship will tip off at 3 p.m. with #3 seed Arcam Construction playing #4 seed McDonald’s. The championship game will pit #1 seed and regular-season champion DavNer Realty versus #6 seed Belle Grae Inn at 4:15 p.m.
Blake takes it strong to the hoop
“That was a-mazing!” Blake Hodge said the words deliberately, with emphasis. It was clearly the most, well, amazing thing he’d ever seen in his life.
The 6-year-old’s basketball coach, Jeff Fife, had called a timeout to set up the play. Blake was on the high block left of the foul line. A teammate in the low block was to crash up toward him to set a pick and free Blake for an open look at the rim.
The play worked as designed, and Blake had his open look.
With his contacts in, he has 20-140 vision, a vast improvement over the 20-740 vision that he was born with.
“I didn’t know what to expect. I really didn’t expect him to make a basket in a game. And now he’s made a few baskets in games. He’s doing so much more than we expected,” said his mother, Tonya Hodge, who admitted being “worried” when Fife, the executive director of the Waynesboro Family YMCA, asked her last year if she’d consider letting her son play in the Y rec league. Read more
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