MDI YMCA

 


poster images courtesy of Ned Johnston

Bar Harbor Residents

We Need Your Vote!

YMCA funding has been cut by the Town of Bar Harbor. We need your support to put this funding BACK into the Town Budget. This funding is critical for the current viability of the MDI YMCA.

Please come to the Town Meeting

on June 3rd

and Vote!

Click here to see how the MDI YMCA

positively impacts the community!

Tuesday, June 3rd at 7pm

Municipal Building

93 Cottage Street

Bar Harbor

 

At the center of the community . . .

For over ten decades the MDI YMCA has been at the center of health & fitness, sports and recreational athletics on the island of Mount Desert. We've helped train five generations of young men and women to win gracefully, lose with dignity and, above all, enjoy the satisfaction of a personal best effort. Our success can be seen of the faces of our members.

Our members are everywhere . . .

One out of every three people who live in Bar Harbor belong to the MDI Y. Over 400 school age children from all over the island, enroll in the Y's swimming and gymnastics programs each year. The MDI Y provides four separate and unique programs of child care and nationally, YMCA’s provide more child care than any other organization. Our Y is so ingrained into the daily lives of so many folks here on MDI, it is difficult to imagine life without it.

Start a conversation about the Y with any of our members and they will invariably have a great story to tell; earning 10¢ a game to reset bowling pins on the Y’s four candlepin lanes in the 1940’s or, at age 7, mustering the courage to face the scary, booming voice of the Shark's legendary swim team coach, Lenny Demuro. Perhaps they will recall running a personal best time at the annual 10K in fog so thick they couldn't see 50 feet up the road. If you’re a member of the MDI YMCA, you probably have your own story you could add here.

If you’re not a member though, isn't it time you consider how a Y membership could benefit you?  Besides improving your health and physical fitness... just think of the stories you could tell!