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Sign Up For Roller Skating Camp at the YMCA

The popular camp offers kids a chance to learn to skate or improve skills - and get a little exercise in too.

Roller skating is once again becoming a popular activity – if you don’t believe it visit the Robert D. Fowler Family YMCA Roller Skating Camp in Peachtree Corners and watch the kids as they roll, race and sometimes fall, across the gym floor, in skates designed to be used on hard wood floors. This is a fun, comprehensive “learn to skate” program held in the Fowler Y gym. The participants learn to stop, turn, crossover, skate backwards and fall correctly in a fun, supervised environment.  Due to its mounting popularity Skate Camp will be offered again the week of July 16. It is amazing to watch the children put on skates for the first time and see the transition as they gain confidence and discover they can make the eight wheels turn …

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Swim for a Record at Simpsonwood Retreat

Thursday join in on the fun - participate in the World's Largest Swimming Lesson at the Peachtree Corners complex.

Summer is just days away now and kids are already playing in pools and families taking trips to the beach. With swimming safety in mind, the Simpsonwood Retreat (in cooperation with Fowler YMCA) is teaming up with Safe Kids Gwinnett as a new host of the World's Largest Swimming Lesson.  People across the world, in over 45 states and 13 countries will take part in the record setting attempt. In 2011, the record was set with over 20,000 people diving in at the same time.  The event is not only about fun, but also safety.  According to Safe Kids Gwinnett, drowning is still the second leading cause of accidental, injury related deaths for children under the age of 14. If children ages one to four take formal swimming lessons, it reduces their …

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Seniors Stay Active, Involved at Fowler YMCA

The Peachtree Corners facility offers a host of social, exercise and educational programs.

Healthy living has as much to do with pursuing interests and learning new things, no matter how old you are, as it does with eating healthy and being active. Life is so much more rewarding and fun when we find people and things that inspire us. You are never too old to try new things - whether it's learning a new skill, discovering a new hobby or making new friends! Fowler Y offers a growing array of programs that are social as well as educational. On any given day at our Senior Center you may find groups playing Bridge, Canasta or Scrabble, ladies knitting, or people putting puzzles together. There are monthly cooking demonstrations, guest speakers and you may even find a class or two on - digital photography, computer or pottery lessons…

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Stay Cool This Summer at YMCA Pool

The Peachtree Corners facility offers fun activities for kids, water fitness classes, recreational and masters swimming.

Do you remember when you first learned to swim? The thrill of taking off the floaties and feeling nothing but your arms and legs propel you through the cool water. The excitement of making it all the way across the pool, knowing this time, you could do it. That’s the feeling we hope to provide to kids this summer at the Y.  “Swimming is important not only from the enjoyment it brings but also from health and safety perspectives," said Michael LaBarre, the YMCA's aquatics director. "Basic swimming skills and water safety practices save lives every day" The Y offers classes beginning at 6 months of age, all the way up to adults. Swimmers are divided into ability groups and are taught by certified swim instructors who emphasize safety, …

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YMCA's Flower Children Create Colorful Paper Designs

Tissue paper, pipe cleaners and a little imagination leads to some colorful creations at a recent YMCA outing.

A farmers market full of farmers selling fresh produce, lots of kids and a couple of Fowler YMCA staff yielded some fabulous paper flower creations in downtown Norcross this past Tuesday. Making paper flowers is a fun activity for kids of all ages, and the flowers will last a long, long time!  Best of all, the kids are so proud of their creations saying, "Look, I made this myself!" All it takes is some colorful tissue paper, pipe cleaners and a healthy dose of imagination. Some of the children decided to wear their flowers in their hair, or on their wrists, through a shirt buttonhole, and others made them for their moms.  Before long the Whistlestop Farmers Market was blooming with festive color! Craft making involves working with one’s …

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Lace Up Your Running Shoes for the Inaugural 'Run The Corners' 5k

The "Run The Corners" event to benefit the Robert D. Fowler YMCA’s Partner With Youth Campaign is set for April 21, 2012.

  By Amy Massey Get ready to run Peachtree Corners - it's all for a good cause. On April 21, in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of The Forum, join your neighbors  for the inaugural "Run The Corners" event to benefit the Robert D. Fowler YMCA’s Partner With Youth Campaign. It promises to be a fun-filled day of celebration beginning with the 5k and 1k followed by children’s inflatables, face-painting, live bands, sidewalk sales, and a Taste of the Forum. Both running events begin and end at The Forum with an 8:00 a.m. start for the 5k followed by a 9:00 a.m. start for the 1k.  For more information visit www.runthecorners.com.  Registration forms are available at the YMCA front desk and through the website or active.com.  The 5k will …

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Deb Wilson Harris

5:45 am on Friday, March 16, 2012

Looks like the start of something big!   more ›

Dance Away the Pounds for a Good Cause

Join in on the ZUMBA Fitness Rock-and-Roll-a-Thon YMCA fundraiser Feb. 25 in Peachtree Corners.

By Julie Bowcutt The third annual ZUMBA® Fitness Rock-and-Roll-a-Thon is ready to “roll” at the yearly fundraiser for the YMCA’s “Partner with Youth” campaign at the Robert D. Fowler YMCA in Peachtree Corners. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get three solid hours of the ZUMBA® rush (or as much as you prefer) including LIVE music segments, goodies, ZUMBAWEAR® giveaways and ten unique instructors!  A Silent Auction and Spin-a-Thon will be held the same day. ZUMBA® is one of the hottest group fitness classes of 2012 using Latin and world beats to burn off the calories as you burn up the floor. But if it's so fun and such a great workout, why don't more people try it? "I can't dance!" is the most common …

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YMCA Holds 14th Annual Spin-A-Thon

Join the fun at Fowler YMCA's annual Spin-A-Thon fundraiser Saturday, Feb. 25.

From summer camp to sports and fitness, Robert D. Fowler YMCA in Peachtree Corners offers hundreds of ways for young, old and everyone in between to have fun, learn, be challenged and grow.   Many people never get that chance, but through Partner With Youth (PWY) they do. In fact, last year, Fowler Y provided financial assistance to 771 families in the community—families who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to experience the Y. Join the Y on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for the 14th annual Spin-A-Thon, Zumba-Thon and Silent Auction benefit for PWY. Fowler Y is located at 5600 West Jones Bridge Road in Peachtree Corners. It is a day of fun, fellowship and fitness, and most importantly, it benefits many neighbors who …

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Local Civic Group Raising Funds for Y Instructor

Cherokee Rose is hosting an "Upscale Yard Sale," with 100 percent of funds going to a YMCA instructor battling cancer.

When a group of 19 ladies decided to form a charity organization, the name nearly presented itself. As many of them are gardeners by avocation, including one Master Gardener, the Official Flower of the State of Georgia, the Cherokee Rose, noted for its beauty as well as its survival skills, seemed like a natural. Thus the Cherokee Rose Civic Association was born. Likewise, the first opportunity for the group presented itself, or rather, herself, in short order. A number of the Cherokee Rose team met at the Robert D. Fowler YMCA, where all were familiar with Jan Nance, a beloved staple of the Y for the past 12 years. After several years as a YMCA member, Jan ascended to water aerobics instructor in 2008. In August, she was diagnosed with …

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YMCA Receives $10,500 From Fundraiser Event

Proceeds from this year's Corners to Crossings races presented to Fowler Family YMCA.

Debbie Timm on behalf of the Corners to Crossing race committee presented a check on May 26 in the amount of $10,500 to the Fowler Family YMCA Partner With Youth campaign. The proceeds were collected from the The Corners to Crossing race, which began in 2008 as a way to bring together the two communities of Peachtree Corners and Norcross. This was the 4th annual race with more than 600 runners participating this year. "The annual Corners to Crossing race is a great fundraiser for the Y and great event for both communities," said Timm. This year’s race was run on Saturday, April 16, 2011. It is also a qualifying race for the Peachtree Road Race, which is held every July 4th. The Corners to Crossing race featured a 10K race starting at the …

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