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Wasilla Airport (IATA: WWA [2], ICAO: PAWS [3], FAA LID: IYS) is a city-owned public-use airport located about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Wasilla, a city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Wasilla is 17 miles by air and 47 miles by road from Anchorage, [4] the largest city in Alaska.
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [1] The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. [2]
The 1948 registration blank for the annual swim program for non-swimmers in Lincoln, Nebraska emphasized that girls should bring a towel but not their own suits, but rent suits at the YWCA. Boys should bring a towel but no suit for their YMCA classes. [56] The learn-to-swim program continued in Lincoln for a decade. [57] [58]
YMCA Philadelphia, also Greater Philadelphia YMCA was founded on June 15, 1854, by George H. Stuart, a prominent Philadelphia businessman and importer. The goal of the Association was to reach "the many thousands of neglected youth not likely to be brought under any moral influence by any other means."
The Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center, originally Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex, [1] is a 102,000 square foot [2] multi-purpose arena in Wasilla, Alaska, designed to accommodate up to 5,000 people. [3]
The Alaska Railroad serves Wasilla. The city-owned Wasilla Airport, with a paved 3,700-foot (1,100 m) runway, provides air taxi services. [41] The airport was formerly located in the city center before moving to a site on the western edge of the city during the 1980s.
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is " skinny dipping ". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [ 1 ]