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.
Weather update
Basketball practices scheduled for Tuesday night have been canceled due to today’s winter storm.
Evening Childwatch and evening fitness classes are also canceled for Tuesday.
Shenandoah Marlins Aquatic Club practices are on as scheduled.
The YMCA will be open regular hours otherwise, through 9 p.m.
Moms, dads – this place is really for you
Let’s say you’re a parent, and you want to go down to the YMCA for a morning or evening workout, but your spouse is at work, you don’t want to go to the trouble of finding a babysitter just to go sweat for an hour …
So you think, I give up. I can’t just take the kids to the Y and leave them there while I do Nautilus and the treadmill.
Actually, yes, you can.
“A lot of people still don’t know that we’re here,” said Melody Mendicino, the director of YMCA Kids Place, which provides childcare weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4-7:30 p.m., and on Friday nights and Saturday mornings by appointment.
Kids Place takes infants as young as six weeks old and preteens up to 12 or 13. Read more
A cool place to go to school
Parents like the Waynesboro YMCA preschool program because “they know that we care,” preschool director Rebecca Patton said.
“There are places you can go that are high-tech. You don’t come here for that. You come here for the quality of care. Your kids are loved, they’re welcomed. We have kids from all backgrounds. Single-parent homes, grandparents raising kids. All in one mixing bowl,” Patton said.
Patton has been the Y preschool for 10 years, her first seven years as a preschool teacher.
“I love being able to do stuff with the kids. That’s why I do so much stuff in the classroom. It was a hard transition to give up my room,” said Patton. Read more
The man behind the whistle
You just assume that John Spears was always the John Spears that we all know and love – the basketball coach who knows how to get the most out of his players, the high-school and college referee who can bring a hostile gym or arena to silence or an uproar with a single whistle.
It all started because Spears got hooked on noontime basketball at the YMCA 32 years ago.
“I was working second shift at the Howard Johnson’s, and somebody told me about noon ball at the Y. I came down, and I got hooked, and the rest is history,” said Spears, the director of youth sports at the Waynesboro YMCA.
In addition to his coaching and refereeing, Spears oversees the year-round basketball program at the Y, which currently has 225 kids in leagues for children ages 5-14. Rec-league ball is the focus right now, and in the spring and summer, it’s AAU time, with the work running the age gamut, from the elementary-school set to high-school upperclassmen. Read more
