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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]
Founded in 1929 by YMCA Director Roy Coble, a former Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey performer, the Great Y Circus is a unique tradition in Redlands, California. Billed as the oldest community circus in the world, it is one of only a handful of programs like it in the United States.
Camp Jones Gulch is a YMCA summer camp in La Honda, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area.It was founded in 1934 and encompasses 927 acres (375 ha) of redwood forests and meadows.
YMCA SCUBA Program (also known as Y-SCUBA) was an underwater diving training program operated by YMCA of the USA from 1959 to 2008. It was the first nationally organised underwater diving instruction program offered in the United States of America .
Built in 1909, it was the second YMCA building in Riverside. YMCA vacated the building in 1968, moving to premises at 4020 Jefferson Street. [2] In 1974 the building was purchased and refurbished by Bent Corydon for use as a franchise of the Church of Scientology. The 40,000 square foot building was, at the time, the largest Mission of the church.
Wadsworth and her crew received Battle Effectiveness Awards for operations in 1993, 1998 and 2001. [6] Decommissioned on 28 June 2002, Wadsworth was handed over to Poland the same day as part of the Foreign Military Sales programme and commissioned under her current name. She was formally stricken from the Navy list on 23 July 2002.
The Wadsworth Theatre, a historic live theater, is located in the Sawtelle community of West Los Angeles, California, within the 388-acre West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs complex. Situated on Eisenhower Avenue in Building 226, the theater is part of the historic Sawtelle Veterans Home , nestled between Wilshire Boulevard and San ...
Wadsworth Center, public-health laboratory in New York; Wadsworth Institute, Mennonite seminary in Wadsworth, Ohio (1868-1878) Wadsworth Chapel and Wadsworth Theatre, on the campus of the West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California; Wadsworth Congregational Church, a historic church in Whitsett, North Carolina