YMCA OF THE PRAIRIE | SERVING SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA
What do you do again? Is that a real job? Where are you again? These are definitely the question I get asked the most since I started here at the YMCA! The short answer is I’m the Youth and Family Director. Yes, recreation is a real career job, and I live in a cool town
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By Terri Burch, Health & Wellness Director Orthman Community YMCA Make The Time What’s stopping you? We all look forward to the future. An event or a place we wish to visit. Anything to look forward to, something to drive us. What if our future is uncertain … and it is...
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A new seating area will soon be available outside the Don Sjogren Community YMCA in Holdrege thanks to an estate gift from former longtime member Lois Carlson. Branch Executive Director Brett Bebensee said the idea for the new area came about after seeing how many people congregated...
Read moreNew friends, time in nature away from screens and just plain fun are a few of the reasons the Orthman Community YMCA’s Great Outdoors Adventure Camp is so popular. This is the fourth year of the four-day/three-night overnight camp, and 29 campers attended. For the past two years, the...
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By Orthman Community YMCA Family & Youth Program Director Amber Holbrook Backyard barbecues, lake days, sunshine, laughter, flip-flops, and sun-kissed skin. These are all things that come to mind when I think, “summer.” As a kid, summer means school’s out and days are spent...
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A bright new school bus arrived at the Don Sjogren Community YMCA this summer just in time to transport busloads of kids to summer field trips. “The old bus had given all she had through the years,” Don Sjogren Community YMCA Executive Director Brett Bebensee said. “It was a ‘95 model...
Read moreYMCA of the Prairie branches in Holdrege, Lexington and Gothenburg are giving adults a new opportunity to stay active this summer with the adult Town Team Basketball League. Teams will play for six weeks (June 22-July 27) with game locations rotating between Holdrege, Gothenburg and...
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LEXINGTON – Pickleball players traveled from hundreds of miles away in early April to compete in the Orthman Community YMCA’s Spring Smash pickleball tournament. The April 2 tournament attracted 54 teams who drove from as far away as Grand Island, Omaha, North Platte, Alliance...
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By Heather Johnson YMCA at Gothenburg Health Fitness Instructor You know the benefits and the need for exercise, but, man, sometimes it is just plain HARD to make yourself get up and move. In 2009, Reebok surveyed 15,000 participants across 25 different countries as part of market...
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YMCA of the Prairie branches will connect families and spread Christmas cheer in December with new and old family traditions. Don Sjogren Community YMCA, Holdrege The Don Sjogren Community YMCA in Holdrege (1415 Broadway) is partnering with the Holdrege Area Chamber of Commerce to...
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