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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]
In 2016 the City of Alpharetta partnered with Zagster, Inc to provide free bike share for Big Creek Greenway users. Bikes can be rented for up to 3 hrs free of charge. Stations are now located at 4 stops along the Big Creek Greenway [3] Bike program was discontinued in May 2020. [4] Locations: Big Creek Park (Roswell, GA)
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
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.
The area was developed as a suburb of Atlanta beginning in the 1960s. [2] In contrast to other northern suburbs of Atlanta, East Cobb has remained unincorporated.Residents of East Cobb typically hold a Marietta address, although they are outside Marietta city boundaries.
alpharetta.ga.us Alpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia , United States, and part of the Atlanta metropolitan area . As of the 2020 U.S. census , Alpharetta's population was 65,818; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] in 2010, the population had been 57,551.
YMCA in Columbus, Georgia, located at 124 11th St., was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
State Route 9 (SR 9), (known locally as Highway 9) is an 86.4-mile-long (139.0 km) north–south state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.It travels from Atlanta to Turners Corner, north-northeast of Dahlonega.