My membership started back in 1999 and continues to be a huge part of my life. My family and I used to live in a townhouse. Whenever my dad would get home from work, he and I would go swimming at this pool in our development. It became a tradition that we had, but once [...]
Local runners from throughout the area met Thursday to honor Boston Marathoners with a run. Runners in the Y running club and Crails Broad Street Runners observed a moment of silence in the evening on May 2 and ran a 2.62 mile distance. Sharon Schanbacker, with her husband Skip, have led the Y running club [...]
The idea of a kids’ firefighter camp is not unique or new. I’m not ashamed to say that I stole, or respectfully copied, the idea from, among others, Hartsville Fire Company in Warminster. What is different about Blaze Brigade Fire Cadet Camp is the collaboration between Central Bucks Family YMCA’s Camp Takoda and Doylestown Fire [...]
One Friday night after work, I was out for my weekly dinner with my dad and I was telling him about the new ballet class I started taking at the Y. Our conversation started out in a simple, “What’s new?” kind of chit-chat, and quickly became a, “Dad, I can’t believe how amazing it is. [...]
What’s Your Style Lets face it. There are about as many styles of martial arts as religions. Karate, Taekwondo, Kungfu what’s the difference? I get this question all the time. He are a few of the more popular ones: Aikido is a Japanese art that consists of grappling. It flows with the motion of [...]