Y golf tournament set for June 4

The 2010 Merv Wooten Invitational Golf Tournament is set for Friday, June 4, at the Waynesboro Country Club.

The format is four-man/two best balls (net and gross).

The event begins with a 1 p.m. shotgun start.

Registration begins at 11 a.m.

The tournament is being sponsored by McDonald’s.

Proceeds benefit the Waynesboro Family YMCA.

You can dowload the registration form here.

Y Hall of Fame member passes

Sign the guest book to offer condolences
 

Former Waynesboro YMCA chairman of the board and 2007 YMCA Hall of Fame inductee Jacob Kirkwood “Kirk” Snell passed away on Wednesday. Snell was 89.

Snell settled in Waynesboro with his wife, Virginia, in 1954, when the Westhills Company located in Waynesboro with the new General Electric plant. In 1977, he received the Stienmetz Award, the highest award given internally by GE, for the development of the Terminet printer, which became a million-dollar business for the Waynesboro plant. Read more

Summer basketball at the Y

The Waynesboro Family YMCA is announcing the following information with regard to 2010 basketball camps and summer basketball leagues.

Online registrations are available – just go to www.waynesboroymca.org. and click on Youth Sports.

For more information, please contact Youth Sports Director John Spears at 540.942.5107 or ybball@cfw.com. Read more

Ladies only

They kicked the guys out 20 years ago. That was when you could tell that the Wild Walleyball Women of Waynesboro were getting serious.

“Twenty years is a long time,” said Tuck Rogers, one of the founding members of the walleyball club, which can actually trace its roots back 21 years, first playing together on the racquetball court at the Waynesboro YMCA in 1989.

The original three – Rogers, Jan Leeth and Sue Pauly – met while talking a walleyball class being offered at the Y. They stuck it out in the class for men and women for a few months before deciding “that we didn’t really need to pay to take lessons anymore,” Leeth said. Read more