News and Events - Melrose Family YMCA

All program sites of The Melrose YMCA will be closed all day on Friday, July 4, 2008.

The Melrose Family YMCA is once again honored to be able to raffle off two choice Green Monster seats at Fenway Park to benefit the Y's Scholarship Fund. The tickets are for the game on Tuesday, July 29th at 7:00 p.m. The competition will be the Los Angeles Angels. The Red Sox themselves recently auctioned off some of these Green Monster tickets and they went for $3,000 apiece! You could end up getting them for $10!

Along with the tickets themselves, your prize includes a round trip limousine ride to Fenway Park from the greater Boston area, a $500 value. You will dine at the Shawmut Pavillion or EMC, a $300 value, and you will have a pre-game on field experience of a tour of the Red Sox Hall of Fame (priceless!).

The raffle tickets are $10 each, 6 for $55 or 12 for $100. They can be purchased at all Melrose YMCA program sites in Melrose and Stoneham. Just ask any staff person.

The drawing of the winner will be done on Thursday, July 17th at 12:00 noon at the 497 Main Street location.

The Melrose YMCA Annual Mount Washington Hike scheduled to take place on Sunday, June 29th 8:30 a.m. has been cancelled due to weather. Look for a rain date to be posted soon!

You can get more info from Mike McDonough or Mike Fleming in the Fitness Center - 781-665-4360 or email ElfMikeal@aol.com

Are you an on-line shopper? If you make any on-line purchases you could be donating to the Y at the same time. All you have to do is visit iGive.com and chose the Melrose Y as your charity of choice. Then proceed to the on-line store of your choice and make your purchases. The YMCA will get a percentage of your entire purchase. You can still get all of the sale prices and discounts that are promoted by the retailer, that won't effect the donation to the Y.

The important thing to remember is that you must go to iGive.com first, before you buy anything, every time. Or, you can choose an option that will send a pop-up notice to your computer screen if you visit the website of a participating retailer. Then simply click on the pop-up and let the shopping begin!

The iGive.com web site lets you choose from the over 680 retailers (including Ebay, Overstock.com, Godiva, Staples, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Lands End, Snapfish). Pick the ones you shop with and just make your purchases. The donation is automatic.

Why not give it a try! Think about it, you can buy what you need and help the Y all at the same time! Thank you for your support.

Common Ground will begin at the Melrose YMCA Sports Center, 152 Tremont Street on July 11 and 12, 2008. Friday nights will be for the Middle School age kids, Saturday nights will be for the High School age kids. The hours will be from 7 pm to 10 pm with no admittance allowed after 9 pm. There is a $3.00 fee for entry. All persons attending must have a completed and signed waiver to enter. The waiver form is available for download here.

Dates for the remainder of 2008 are: July 11 & 12, July 25 & 26, August 8 & 9, August 22 & 23, Sept.5 & 6, Sept 19 & 20, October 3 & 4, October 17 & 18, October 31 & November 1, November 14 & 15, December 5 & 6, and December 19 & 20.

This half day camp is located at the Gymnastics Center in our fully equipped gymnasium. Each day your junior gymnast will learn basic gymnastics skills on all four Olympic events, have arts & crafts, and a dance rotation. They will leap, jump and bounce into our ground foam safety pit and across our 25 foot trampoline. There will be six one week sessions.

Session I	July 7th-July 11th
Session II	July 14th-July 18th
Session III	July 28th-August 1st
Session IV	August 4th-August 8th
Session V	August 11th-August 15th
Session VI	August 18th-August 22nd

Location:	YMCA Gymnastics Center	156B Tremont St, Melrose (781-665-1616)
Hours:	Monday - Friday	8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee Per Session:	Member - $116.00	Program Member - $173.00
Full payment required at registration

Please contact Jen Conway at 781-665-0814 or Jen.Conway@melroseymca.org with any questions.

The Melrose Y held our 24th Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, June 23rd at Bellevue Golf Club. The rain started around 10am and by 12:30 the course was unplayable. We would like to thank everyone who participated with a smile and a shrug to the rain. To those who didn't get to play until the following Monday we hope you enjoyed the course.

The dinner and raffle were still held on the 23rd with many participants returning for a fun filled evening with great food. Thank you to everyone who participated, the Bellevue members for allowing the Y to play there, Jim Tobin and all of the staff at Bellevue for their help and finally to all of our sponsors without whom our event would not be as successful as it was.

Major Tournament Sponsors:
Northern Bank & Trust
Pine Insurance
D & R General Contracting.

Hole Sponsors:
Ahern Painting
Amber Orton, Re/Max Heritage
Blue Bell Cleaners
Camerlengo & Associates
Capuano Construction Masonry
Carrier Transicold of Boston
Cataldo Ambulance
Century 21, Sexton & Donohue
Cleveland Fence
Cohen & Sales, Attorneys at Law
Crystal Motor Express
East Boston Savings Bank
Eastern Bank
Gately Funeral Home
Greenwood & Sons
Hughes & Company, P.C.
Huntress Insurance
Hunts Photo & Video
Ingemi Family
Johnson O'Connor. P.C.
Knight-Harrison Fuels
MassBank
Melrose Cooperative Bank
Melrose Glass
Melrose Shell
Melrose-Wakefield Hospital
Montvale Tire
Oak Grove Village
Peg and Linda O, Re/Max Heritage
Permberton Interiors
YMCA of the North Shore

In-kind Event Sponsors:
M & M Liquors
Foodmaster Supermarkets
Brueggars Bagels
Honey Dew Donuts
Emma's Orchard

The Teen Fitness Center at 152 Tremont Street, Melrose will close on June 17, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. for the summer months. Teens may utilize the Main Street Fitness Center facility (497 Main Street) beginning on June 18, 2008 and continuing through August 22nd.

Great news for all of you who take fitness and aerobics classes on the third floor...the classes will be moved to the second floor for the summer! The second floor has air conditioning that will make it more comfortable for you during your aerobics classes. This will begin on June 9th. See you all on the second floor!

If you are interested in competing for the Melrose YMCA Gymnastics Team, tryouts will be held during the week of August 25th-29th. Please contact Jen Conway at 781-665-0814 to set up an appointment.

The Melrose Family YMCA was voted the number one health club in the north of Boston region by the CNC newspaper readers. The CNC newspapers include the Melrose Free Press. The region includes Malden, Medford, Melrose, Reading, Saugus, Stoneham, and Wakefield. Thank you to all of you who voted for us. We are sincerely touched by your faith in us.

The Melrose Y closes for a week every August to complete major repairs and cleaning that can not be done with people in the building. The dates of shut-down this year are Friday, August 22nd at 9:00pm (closing time) to Tuesday, September 2nd at 5:30am. We will post alternative sites for members to utilize while we are sprucing up in the next issue of the Member News and on the Y web site in August.

The Melrose Y has plans for making some improvements to our Main Street facility and the way our memberships work. These projects will greatly improve the way we are able to service families within our facility and will provide our adult members with more comfortable locker room facilities. In addition there will be an upgrade of strength equipment in our fitness center.

We are still working on improving our facilities to better serve you and our community. We will have more detailed information in the coming months, but we are working to accomplish the following:

-- Updating some of our strength equipment and refurbishing those machines we keep on the floor.
-- Replacing lockers in the basic locker rooms.
-- Creating a new Family Changing Area complete with showers and toilet facilities.
-- Providing an elevator to make our facility more accessible to everyone.

These changes will take some fundraising to accomplish, but our goal is to complete them quickly because we have a commitment to strong service to our members and community.

Monday September 8th 6:00-7:00 p.m. for ages 11 and up
Tuesday September 9th 6:00-6:30 p.m. for ages 6-8
Tuesday September 9th 6:30-7:00 for ages 9-10

If you are a YMCA member and have been paying to take Pilates and Yoga classes at the Y in the past, you can now do so for free! You must still register for the class during the registration period. We also ask you make a commitment to attend all classes. If two classes are missed the next person on the class waiting list will be given your spot.

Registrations are now being accepted for the Melrose program site at the Beebe School site office, 263 W. Foster St in Melrose. Office hours are Mon-Fri 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.; June 23 - Aug 22: Mon 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Tue-Fri 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Stoneham program registrations are being accepted at the Stoneham Site, 39 Pleasant St - Third Floor in Stoneham. This state-licensed program provides transportation from all Stoneham schools and features low child:teacher ratios, child-focused program space, art projects, gym games, healthy snacks, computers, homework help, literacy and math enrichment activities and special interest clubs. For more information contact Michelle Duncan at 781-279-2720.

The 2008-2009 School Age Program information can be found here: (all are .PDF files)

Don't forget to sign your child up for one of our Summer Camps and Programs. Many weeks will be full if you wait too long. Give your child a great experience this summer - a YMCA Camp. It's something they will remember their entire lives!

Many people ask about employment opportunities at the Melrose Family YMCA. Fortunately for us, our staff vacancies are few and far between.

Fitness Instructor Openings at 497 Main Street - Staff openings exist for the following:

Pilate's Instructor
Looking for an instructor to work evenings 2 nites a week. Must be a motivated individual with a strong desire to keep the class challenging with variety of exercise and reaching students of all levels.

Yoga Instructor
Looking for Yoga instructor to teach a Vinyasa type of Yoga class 2 nites a week. Must provide a variety of poses with a section of meditation or relaxation towards the end of class.

Boot Camp Instructor
Looking for an instructor who will take the class form basic training to more advanced and challenging levels.

Please contact Mike Fleming, Health & Wellness Director at (781) 665-4360 ext 16 or email ElfMikeal@aol.com.

We welcome you to fill out an application with the department of your choice to remain on file in the event an opening occurs in the future.

The Melrose Family YMCA has embarked on a mission to rediscover its past. Are you a Melrose YMCA alumni? You are if you were part of the YMCA prior to finishing high school. Did you participate in swim team, gymnastics team, Leader's Club, Y staff member, Tri-Hi-Y, day camps, etc.? If you did, then you are one of our alumni.

We want to keep track of our alumni to see what they are doing now. We are looking for people who graduated in the Class of 2002 or before. We would like to hear from everyone no matter how long ago you were here - '50's, '60's, '70's, whenever! Please take a minute to fill out our online Alumni Form. We guarantee that none of your information will be used by anyone other than the Melrose YMCA.

The Melrose Family YMCA is offering special six-month memberships to the immediate families of activated military personnel currently involved in the war in Iraq. Military families interested in using the YMCA's facilities need to present their military identification cards and activation papers when signing up for the membership. For more information, contact Ellen DiNocco, membership director, at 781-665-4360.

We are always interested in hearing feedback - ideas, comments, criticism, suggestions - from any of our members. We would love to hear from you. You can fill out a comment slip in the lobby of our Main Street facility and drop it in the suggestion box. These slips are read only by the YMCA President. Or you can send us a letter to our 497 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 address. Or you can send us an email at info@melroseymca.org - Please let us know how we are doing!

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