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The Dallas Turkey Trot (commonly branded the Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot after its chief beneficiary) is an annual turkey trot footrace over an 8.2 miles (13.2 km) course through the city of Dallas, Texas . There is also a 5k fun run/walk. Participants may choose to register for the 5k as a timed or untimed runner.
On October 21, 2008, Pickens donated $5 million to the Downtown Dallas YMCA. The Downtown YMCA was subsequently renamed the "T. Boone Pickens YMCA" in his honor. "I want this gift to encourage individuals, corporations and the entire city to make a serious commitment to fitness and health," Boone Pickens said.
By 1845, YMCA started a popular series of lectures that from 1848 were held at Exeter Hall, London, and started being published the following year, with the series running until 1865. [9] YMCA was associated with industrialisation and the movement of young people to cities to work. YMCA "combined preaching in the streets and the distribution of ...
YMCA secretaries worked to create camp committees to run programs providing educational opportunities, physical instruction, and equipment, theatrical productions and musicals. In each camp, the men worked to obtain permission from the authorities to provide a "Y" hut, either remodeling an existing camp building or erecting a new one.
Lake Wales is making plans to convert the YMCA facility into a city-run recreation center after YMCA of West Central Florida leaves on Oct. 31..
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The Moody Family YMCA is in University Park. [32] It was formerly known as the Park Cities-North Dallas Branch YMCA. [33] Circa 2014 its previous building was to be demolished, and the YMCA leased 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) in Preston Center for the period until its new building would open. [34]
The song, from the Village People’s album “Cruisin’”, is purportedly about the nonprofit Young Men’s Christian Association and the community centers it runs in many U.S. cities.