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April 21, 2016 | 44 pages
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Quinte West YMCA launches $85,000 Strong Kids goal By Erin Stewart Trenton – The Quinte West YMCA has launched a new goal of $85,000 for this year’s Strong Kids Campaign, a campaign to ensure kids and families who have financial need have the opportunity to participate in programs at the YMCA. This year’s chair of the Strong Kids committee, Gino Leone, said it’s extremely important for him to be involved with the Strong Kids initiative, as a father of two boys with another on the way. “I want my kids to be involved in the community and the sports and programs at the Y and for families that don’t get that opportunity for their kids,” he said. When young families are first starting out that’s when the financial burden is the hardest, said Leone. “Unfortunately, if we wait for them to be able to afford it then the kids grow up and they’re no longer kids anymore and they’re the ones that miss out,” Leone said. “So it’s very important for us to step in as a community and make sure all of those kids have the right to participate.” Leone said he’s feeling very confident this year will be a success and the community will
support the Strong Kids $85,000 goal. “We have a great community around here and great businesses that support,” he said. “I believe every one of those community members and business owners and residents are going to come back on board and support.” Ron Riddell, general manager of the Quinte West YMCA, said last year’s campaign was a great success in the community, raising well over the goal of $57,000 to end with just over $82,000. The Quinte West YMCA has about 6,000 members and 21 per cent of all members, including kids, are receiving some type of financial assistance. All of the money raised through the Strong Kids campaign goes directly towards kids programming, Riddell said. “The amount of money that we raise right now in this community is far exceeded by the amount that we’re providing in financial assistance,” he said. Riddell said it’s important that the staff at the Quinte West YMCA believe in and support their Strong Kids initiative. He said the branch has now raised more than $6,000 between the staff to kick off the campaign.
Quinte West YMCA Strong Kid Kaisac Fleming was on hand to help launch this year’s Strong Kids Campaign goal of $85,000 at the YMCA on Thurs. April 14. Photo by Erin Stewart
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