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Spring break brings kids to the YMCA

  • Lois Wright, YMCA membership coordinator helping Koen Tibbitts and Aleigha Stewart at the front desk. Press Photo By Thomas Nelson.

  • Children in the YMCA playing various games and enjoying themselves during spring break 2017. Press Photo By Thomas Nelson.

  • Children playing basketball at the YMCA during spring break 2017. The YMCA didn't have as many kids, but they did have the same amount longer. Press Photo By Thomas Nelson.

By Thomas Nelson, tnelson@charlescitypress.com

The Charles City YMCA is seeing isn’t seeing more children this week, but it is seeing them for a longer period of time.

“We’re saving parent’s sanity,” Lois Wright, YMCA membership coordinator said. “We have about the same amount we have after school, but now they’re coming at 11 o’clock or noon.”

The children coming in are not always the same kids, but there are some that are always at the YMCA, Wright said. The YMCA was full of children Wednesday afternoon in the lobby and basketball court, which Wright says in one its most popular accommodations.

The influx of children is business as usual for Wright and YMCA. The kids buy a lot candy and check out a lot of equipment, she said.

The YMCA offers a variety of activities for children and adults. Basketball and volleyball are some of the more popular activities. On Tuesday upwards of 40 kids were in the basketball court at one time playing, Wright said. The YMCA also has a game room with foosball and air hockey for kids to use.

Children aren’t the only people utilizing the YMCA during spring break, adults too are coming in. Adults coming into use the fitness center has become more common place, Lois said.

“We’ve had a lot of college kids in this year,” Wright said.

College kids, parents of children and high school kids are coming into utilize the YMCA, Wright said.

Some children aren’t there to play in the court. Aleigha Stewart was there to paint and color, she said. Stewart came with both of her brothers to the YMCA Wednesday afternoon during spring break.

At least 15 children were playing various basketball game Wednesday afternoon, including Koen Tibbitts, who came just to shoot some hoops and play around.

“To work at the Y during spring break you have to like kids, luckily I like kids,” Wright said. “They are challenging.”

 

 

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