The Warren County YMCA is offering outdoor fitness classes in order to maintain social distancing, but still provide for the community says Social Media and Marketing at the YMCA Emily Brooks:
“Specifically for our state because regulations are way different from even just Iowa at this point, we saw that outdoor classes were going to be the best option. We can serve more people that way and even if we get more than ten people in a class, we can still separate them and have another instructor help out to separate the classes. We just found it was going to be a lot easier to serve our community that way. We talked about it and decided yes we are going to do outdoor classes. If it rains we will adjust and we will figure it out,” Brooks shares.
Summer Day Camp at the Warren County YMCA begins on Monday, June 8th and will run through August 14th for kids aged Kindergarten through 6th grade. The Campers will be Red Foxes this summer as the camp has changed their name to Camp Meskwaki. Day Camp Coordinator Emily Brooks shares how the name change came about:
“We are no longer Blue Wolves. We are Camp Meskwaki. I chose that name because I did some research on the history of Monmouth and the Native Americans that founded the land that Monmouth sits on, there was a tribe called Meskwaki. It just clicked with me and I’m like ‘that is such a cool name.’ A lot of camps that other YMCA’s do, they have names that are like that, a part of the Native American culture. We wanted to do that and embrace those people and all the people that found this land and so we picked that name and the kids are going to be Red Foxes. There was a fox tribe that was also a part of it that founded the land that Monmouth sits on,” Brooks says.
For more information about Day Camp, contact the YMCA at 734-3183, emailing Brooks at emily@warrencountyymca.org or online at https://warrencountyymca.org/programs/#youth.
