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Downtown Y needs repairs, updates

YMCA announces Claim Your Name Capital Campaign

Jul 7, 2021 | 10:45 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – A new campaign from the YMCA of Medicine Hat has your name all over it.

At least it could.

To improve the Downtown Y the YMCA of Medicine Hat has begun a $3 million Claim Your Name Capital Campaign. The YMCA is looking for naming rights sponsors and donors to help fund repairs and updates at the downtown branch.

Three sponsors have already claimed their name: Sun City Dental – Men’s Health Plus Changeroom sponsor; The Miller family – YMCA Aquatics Centre sponsor; The estate of Alex McDougald – Accessibility sponsor to create an inclusive washroom and install a new wheelchair elevator.

CEO Sharon Hayward says many current members grew up going to YMCA day camps and now have their own children in the camps.

“We want it to keep going so that we will see their children’s children grow up in our YMCA too,” she says in a release. “This capital campaign is going to make that happen and our sponsors will help us impact the community in bigger ways than we otherwise would have been able to do on our own.”

To find out how you can help the YMCA, visit medicinehatymca.ca or contact Helene Nicholson, philanthropy director at helene.nicholson@medicinehatymca.ca or 403-527-4426, extension 130.