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Reignite your flame and fill your cup; this is the motto for this year’s Celebrating Teaching Conference held by Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley and RMH Childcare Connection. This day is one devoted to the professional development and education of childcare providers and pre-K teachers. The conference will be held in the CISAT Building on East…
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The Waynesboro Family YMCA is partnering with Virginia Premier Health Plan Inc. encouraging Medicaid recipients to adopt and maintain healthy living habits. A federal grant Program approved in the Affordable Care Act, under the Obama administration, promotes incentives for medicaid recipients who make an effort to control or lose weight, keep blood pressure and cholesterol…
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As children and teens return to school, the Waynesboro Family YMCA encourages parents looking for safe, educational and fun activities outside the classroom to take advantage of its afterschool programs. The Waynesboro Family YMCA, a leading nonprofit committed to youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, and a pioneer in afterschool programs, offers quality afterschool…
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September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and the Waynesboro Family YMCA is reminding parents about the importance of incorporating regular physical activity and healthier eating habits into their children’s lives. Childhood obesity rates have soared over the last few decades. Nationally, one in three children is obese. More alarming, obesity puts children at risk…
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Augusta Free Press LLC has moved a block down Waynesboro’s Main Street. AFP has opened a new office at 421 W. Main St., Suite D, in The Edmunds Building in Downtown Waynesboro. AFP will be sharing offices with one of its corporate clients, Awesome Wrestling Entertainment, which stages live-event professional wrestling shows at venues across…
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If you’re an average woman, you want two children, according to various surveys. That means you’ll spend about five years of your life trying to become pregnant, being pregnant or recovering from pregnancy, and 30 years trying to avoid it. You can do that thanks to the June 1965 landmark Supreme Court decision Griswold v….
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The Waynesboro YMCA and Waynesboro Public Schools will partner in the fall to offer pre-kindergarten afterschool care at Wayne Hills, meeting a long-identified need in the Waynesboro community. “The Waynesboro Y will be providing a valuable service that many working parents have requested for several years,” said Robin Crowder, the superintendent of Waynesboro Public Schools,…
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For Sherri Mayo, the Waynesboro Y is a caring environment for her 5-year-old son, Cooper, who is enrolled in the pre-K class at the Y. “There is never a day when I take him to his class that I am concerned about his care. I know he is in a learning environment that is structured,…
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As our economy continues to struggle, families, children, adults and seniors are reaching out to your YMCA to provide programming that builds healthy mind, body and spirit. Last year alone, the YMCA provided more than $130,000 in scholarships to needy families that otherwise could not afford our services. Forty-two percent of the kids we serve…
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Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley, a local collaborative coalition working to improve the quality of early education and care in the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, as well as in Augusta, Page, Rockingham and Shenandoah counties, has received a significant grant of $125,000 from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, a public-private partnership headquartered in Richmond….
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