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Camp Seymour is a YMCA camping facility located in Washington state. It is considered a branch of the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties and has been in operation since 1907. [ 1 ] As of 2019, it frequently sold out and a sister camp at Lake Helena was established. [ 2 ]
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]
Gig Harbor has a marine west coast climate: Warm and dry summers, transitional springs and autumns, and cool and wet winters, with occasional snow. The annual high and low temperatures of Gig Harbor are 59.3 and 44.8 °F (15.2 and 7.1 °C), respectively, making for an average of 52.05 °F (11.14 °C).
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An exterior view of Patterson’s Farm Market in Gig Harbor, Wash. on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Yuhasz told The Gateway July 15 that she wasn’t certain they’d be able to hit the fundraising ...
This local baker has a new spot in Gig Harbor after downtown grocery store closed. Aspen Shumpert. May 28, 2023 at 8:00 AM. Sweet treats from Harbor Cakes have found a new home at Kimball Coffeehouse.
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]
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.