YeaBo Spring Newsletter!

Attention to all of our fabulous alumni! The weather is warm, the flowers will soon by popping up and it's that time for the SPRING YeaBo Newsletter!

Did you celebrate a big birthday or anniversary? Did you have a child or grandchild born recently? Did you get married or engaged? Did you have just something super exciting happen? We would like to know and would like to share with our Y Camp Family.

Please send all Alumni Updates and Photos for the spring issue of YeaBo to amy.joanning@dmymca.org

Your deadline is Thursday, March 20th at 5pm.

Thank You!

Y Camp Shirt Day!

SHOW YOUR PRIDE
HONOR YOUR CAMP
CELEBRATE SPRING

Wear your camp shirts or apparel on March 20, 2012!!

Join YCamp on

Tuesday, March 20^th for Y Camp Shirt Day!

Show your YCamp pride by wearing your YCamp shirt or apparel on March 20^th and

SEND US YOUR PHOTO! We would like to proudly display everyone honoring YCamp on our Facebook page! Send photos to amy.joanning@dmymca.org

Thank you and have a great day!

Summer Camp is Quickly Approaching!

March has arrived with warm temperatures.  Which means - Spring is almost here and Summer will be here before we know it!

If you are already registered, did you know you have find your parent packet and packing list online? While you wait for your parent packet, you can check out information on our blog site.  Just click on "Parent Packet Information" - located at the top in the purple tab. 

If you are not registered and would like to or need more information, there a multiple ways to find what you need.  While our website is getting a complete overhaul - everything you need is either on our blog or facebook page.  To register online, you can click right on our "Register Online" button and that will take you straight our registration website.  It's just as easy to view our brochures.  Click on the button "2012 Y Camp Brochure" on the main blog page and that will take you straight to our Facebook Album where our Resident Camp, Day Camp and Family Camp brochures are located. 

If you have any questions on anything, feel free to e-mail us or call.  Our e-mail is ycamp@dmymca.org and our phone number is 515-432-7558.

Friday Fall Frost Fotos

These were taken on 

Friday, November 4, 2011

We would LOVE to hear from our Alumni

To all the fabulous alumni of Y-Camp ~

Could you please send your contact information to Amy Joanning our alumni coordinator, at: amy.joanning@dmymca.org. We are working on collecting all Alumni's info so we can send you our great Alumni Newsletter - YeaBo News.

Thank you and please pass this information along to all your friends that have worked at Y-Camp!

Keep Connected with Us!

You can now follow the YMCA of Greater Des Moines on Facebook and Twitter. What you need to do is head on over to www.dmymca.org.  On the homepage, you will find a box entitled 'Stay Connected'.  You can click on the White Square to subscribe to our eNewsletter.  You are also able to click on the Facbook icon and 'Like' the YMCA of Greater Des Moines facebook page and you can click on the Twitter icon to keep up with what we are up to on a daily basis. 

This will be a great way to know of all the events that are happening with all 11 branches of the YMCA of Greater Des Moines. 

YMCA Annual Dinner

From BJ Murray - Summer Camp Director

     This week we had the YMCA Annual Dinner.  It’s a great event held at the Downtown Marriot and the food is good, and it looks basically like what you would expect a large non-profit annual dinner would look like.  It is all done very well and you hear some great talks, and everyone is all dressed up (it’s cool and all, but I still hate wearing a suit and tie), but that is not the part that I enjoy.  It is the impact we see from Y Camp on those in attendance. 

Looking through the book they give us almost half of the names of the Service to Youth  award winners (the highest award a volunteer in the Des Moines Association can earn) are all camp folks.  We fill up almost four full tables of just camp people.  Plus, every year I am amazed that someone up front mentions the impact Y Camp had on them.  Whether it is through the Adventure Guides program campouts, or the role model that one of the leaders had on them, they talk about those memories and impact with a deep gratitude.

These people are some of the most respected and successful men and women in Des Moines, and they cherish camp as some of their fondest memories.  That’s impact.  That is what camp is able to create.  I believe we are still doing that today.  Camp truly does change and effect people on a deeper level.  It is something that stays with them, and it has nothing to do with a huge trip, an amusement park, a video game or a cell phone.  It is all about the relationships.  It is all about the character. It is all about good old fashioned fun.  It’s pure and it’s deep and that is what I am proud of. 

Thank you to all that have supported camp through the years and the contribution you have made to impacting children.  Maybe 20 years from now someone will be talking about you at the annual dinner.