Friday, May 18, 2007

YMCA pleads for quick pledges

from The Herald Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Groundbreaking for the new Parkview Huntington Family YMCA is set for June 1, but the Y's executive director is warning that, without financial support from the community, some of the facility's bells and whistles may have to wait.“We won't reduce the size of the building,” YMCA Executive Director Dan Akeley said Tuesday. But unless pledges start coming in from the community, some of the new facility's planned features may have to be omitted or put on hold, Akeley said. The number of cardio machines could be reduced; a large slide in the pool area could be omitted; and specific rooms may not be finished off.

The new building, which will be built in front of Parkview Huntington Hospital on CR 500N, could open on schedule without those items. They could be added later as money becomes available, Akeley said. But architects need to know soon how much money they have to work with. “By the end of August, they need to know everything,” Akeley said. “So by the first of August, we need to know how much money we have.”

The YMCA wants to raise $9 million for its new facility, and its capital campaign currently stands at almost $6.7 million - with close to $1 million of that received through pledges from individuals. That leaves $2.3 million yet to raise. “The bottom line is that we need the community to step up and help the YMCA build the facility as designed,” said Steve Zahn, the Y's capital campaign chairman. “Every pledge is important, from the $100 pledge to the $1 million pledge.”

Pledges can be paid over a five-year period. All contributors will be recognized on a plaque inside the new facility, and major contributors can name a portion of the building.
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Friday, May 11, 2007

Register Now!

Below is a reservation form for the June 16 reunion. You will also
be receiving a copy in the mail, within the next few days. If you have
not sent in your profile/biography, please do so now! We need them for the
Memory Book.



HUNTINGTON YMCA

SWIM TEAM REUNION

JUNE 15 – 17, 2007

As you know, the Huntington YMCA has a rich history of swim teams since the early 1930’s. To celebrate this history, the YMCA is having a reunion for all former swim team members and their families. You are invited to attend! Listed below is the schedule of optional events over the weekend.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15

Call for tee time Golf LaFountaine Golf Course

12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Swim Camp Lake Clare

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Reception YMCA

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Open Water Swim Meet Lake Clare

6:00 PM – 9:30 PM Reunion Banquet Huntington North High School

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Fathers Day Brunch New YMCA Site

Event Descriptions:

Golf: Enjoy 18 holes at LaFountaine Golf Course. Arrange your group and call the golf course directly, 260-356-5820, for a tee time. Green fees for tee times before 10:00 are $17.00 for players 60 and over, and $22.00 for all other players, which includes 18 holes and a cart. Green fees increase $9.00 per person for tee times after 10:00.

Swim Camp: The swim camp will be held at Lake Clare on Friday, June 15. The clinic is for 32 of the best 11 and up distance swimmers in Indiana. The camp starts at noon and will be highlighted by special guest speaker, Rick Walker. Coach Walker received the 2005 Glen S. Hummer Award from USA Swimming and coached the U. S. National Open Water Swim Team in the 2005 World Championships in Montreal.

Reception: The YMCA will be open for tours, historic pictures will be available for viewing and refreshments will be served. This will be a great time to catch up with your old teammates and recall the memories of your swim team career.

Open Water Swim Meet: Different divisions will take place throughout the day, including a Masters Division and the Olympic Qualifying event. Go online to www.huntingtonmile.org if you are interested in participating in the event. There is no fee for watching the event.

Reunion Banquet: The banquet will include a dinner with a program immediately following the dinner. The program will include Gary Dilley and Matt Vogel featured as keynote speakers, the history of the Huntington YMCA Swim Team and much more. This is sure to be the highlight of the weekend. Cost for the banquet is $25.00 per person, which includes a T-shirt and DVD.

Fathers Day Brunch: Tents will put up on the site of the new YMCA, which will be located on 500 N between Parkview Huntington Hospital and Crestview Middle School. A buffet will be provided. Cost of the brunch is $7.00 per person.

HUNTINGTON YMCA

SWIM TEAM REUNION

JUNE 15 – 17, 2007

REGISTRATION

Name____________________________Home Phone_____________Cell___________

Address_______________________City________________State_____ZIP___________

E-Mail__________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 AMOUNT DUE

Swim Clinic _____# Attending No Charge

Reception _____# Attending No Charge

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

Open Water Spectator _____# Attending No Charge

Open Water Participant (Enter on-line at www.huntingtonmile.org)

Reunion Banquet _____# Attending x $25.00 $______________

(includes Reunion T-Shirt and DVD)

T-Shirt Size(s)_____________________

SUNDAY, JUNE 17

Fathers Day Brunch _____# Attending x $7.00 $______________

TOTAL DUE AND ENCLOSED $______________

If paying by Credit Card:

___Visa ____Mastercard #________________________ Expiration Date____________

Please return registration form and payment to the Huntington YMCA by June 1, 2007: Huntington YMCA

607 Warren Street

Huntington, IN 46750.

260-356-4200
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Welcome

Hello fellow Hummer alumni. We each have memories of the huge influence Glen S. Hummer had on us all. The Huntington YMCA is still conducting a continuing funding campaign for the marvelous new facility which replaces the one we all swam in and more since the team began in 1933. This space is for us to meet and/or meet up again. There were 250 at the reunion on June 16, 2007, coinciding with the newly reestablished Huntington Mile at ole Lake Clare in which many of us swam again. All are invited and welcomed to submit reminiscences here (click on "comments" in the section below.) See some of you, again we hope, at the 2010 Glen S. Hummer Huntington Masters Mile. And visit us on facebook too at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/group.php?gid=100802262318&ref=ts



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Huntington YMCA Building Program

Note: To donate to the fund-raising campaign for the new YMCA (and its Hummer Pool) contact:

Dan Akeley, Executive Director, Huntington YMCA, 607 Warren St., Huntington, IN 46750, 260-356-4200, ymcadan@kconline.com

From The Herald Press12/18/06

Goal: $8 million; In hand: $5.4 million; Yet to raise: $2.6 million

It will take $8 million to build a new YMCA, and that's the amount the Y's fund-raising committee has set as its goal. With the $2 million gift from Parkview Huntington Hospital - seven acres of land worth $450,000 and a pledge of $1.55 million in cash from the hospital's Community Benefit dollars - the capital campaign committee now has $5.4 million in hand, said Dan Akeley, the YMCA's executive director.

That $5.4 million, which includes pledges that will be paid over the next five years, came in as the result of a campaign that began in May as YMCA volunteers contacted potential major donors, Akeley said. That leaves the YMCA with $2.6 million yet to raise. Some of that will come from additional major donors, Akeley said, but the Y hopes to raise $250,000 from people throughout Huntington County who are everyday users (or former users) of the facility. An effort to reach those people will begin in late January and continue until June, Akeley said. YMCA volunteers will begin with personal contacts and later use phone calls and letters to solicit donations.

From The Herald Press, 12/18/06

The inside story: Nearly double the usable space

By CINDY KLEPPER, City Editor

The new Parkview Huntington YMCA will encompass about 52,000 square feet, all on one floor, with two pools, two basketball floors, and an elevated walking track. By comparison, the current facility has about 30,000 square feet of usable space on three levels, one pool, one basketball court, and no dedicated place to walk - although it does have numerous nooks and crannies that may have had a function when the Warren street building opened in 1930, but now serve no useful purpose.

The new building was designed by Moake Park Group, a Fort Wayne-based architectural firm whose work can be seen in the Parkview Huntington Hospital building as well as the Jorgensen Family YMCA in Allen County. Moake Park's design for the Huntington YMCA was intended for a 14-acre site north of Huntington that the YMCA board originally planned to purchase, said Dan Akeley, the Y's executive director. The building and parking areas would have occupied only seven acres of that site, Akeley said, and can be moved to the Parkview site practically unchanged. "The floor plans will basically be the same," Akeley said. "It worked for both sites." The remainder of the original 14-acre site would have held a soccer field, two retention ponds, and a fitness trail. At the new site, retention ponds are already in place outside the YMCA's seven acres. Although there's no room for a soccer field, there's a possibility of additional property being made available for soccer sometime in the future. In addition to surveying members about what they wanted in a new facility, YMCA board members checked out features of other recently built YMCAs.

"We learned a lesson from the Jorgensen YMCA," Akeley said. "They have one pool, and if someone has an accident in the pool, they have to shut down the whole thing." The Huntington Y board decided to go with two pools, side by side. "If somebody has an accident, we can just shut the one pool down," Akeley said. The smaller pool will have a "zero," or sloped, entry making it accessible to people in wheelchairs and others with limited mobility. It's water will be warm enough to be comfortable for swimming and aerobics classes. The second pool will be large enough to be used by swim teams and can also be used to host meets. The gym's two basketball courts can be separated by a curtain. A fitness center will include both free weights and cardio equipment, and an adjacent aerobics/dance area will feature floating floors. A walking track, one-tenth of a mile long, will be suspended around the perimeter of the gym, fitness center, and aerobics/dance area. An expanded child watch area will be located next to two preschool rooms.