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Onalaska Omni Center is a municipal convention center and indoor sports arena in Onalaska, Wisconsin, which serves greater La Crosse County. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the home of the Coulee Region Chill of the North American Hockey League (NAHL) from the fall of 2010 until August 2014.
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]
Macleod, David I. Building character in the American boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history. Putney, Clifford W. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990." Journal of Sport History 20#2 1993, pp. 151–166. online
Sloane House YMCA, West 34th Street, New York City, which was the largest residential YMCA in the U.S.A. Old Poughkeepsie YMCA, Poughkeepsie, New York, listed on the NRHP as "Young Men's Christian Association". [2] United States Post Office (Canandaigua, New York), now used by the YMCA and listed on the NRHP in Ontario County, New York. [2]
Onalaska (/ ˌ ɒ n ə ˈ l æ s k ə / ⓘ ON-ə-LASS-kə) [4] is a city in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,803 at the 2020 census. It borders the larger La Crosse, Wisconsin, and is a part of the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN Metropolitan Area. [5] Onalaska is built on a slightly elevated ridge above the Black River.
The Camp was given this name by director, Roy Wagner, in 1924. According to Camp legend, the word is used for "hello" and "goodbye." It was established in 1898 by YMCA of Jamestown, New York and served boys from this growing industrial town as well as males from Westfield, NY and Buffalo, NY during its first decades. In 1924, the camp moved ...
Frost Valley YMCA is a camping, environmental education, and conferencing center located in Claryville, New York, part of the Catskill Mountains Founded in 1901 as Camp Wawayanda, the camp moved to its present location in 1958.
YMCA of downtown Toronto, c. 1923 The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity organization working on social issues in the Greater Toronto Area . [ 1 ] In 2008 and 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. [ 2 ]