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...black clouds of smoke and dust drifted over to his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sanders, like people everywhere else, was depressed by the attacks. His problems and successes were dwarfed by their implications. Finding work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...
...Connor, 46, died last Friday after suffering a heart attack while playing basketball at the Cambridge YMCA...
...Creative writing has definitely become more popular--for all ages," concurs Phil Memmer, director of the Writer's Voice at the Greater Syracuse YMCA in Syracuse, N.Y. This program, part of a national network of similar groups run by different YMCA branches, includes a summer arts camp. Over the past year, Memmer's writing programs for kids have doubled in size. "More kids want to be authors," he says, "and there's a growing interest in poetry and poetry slams" (uninhibited, free-for-all poetry competitions...
Want to encourage your child to write? Approach your child's school or the local YMCA about getting a class going. Check websites of national groups like the Writer's Voice to see what's in your area. Start a kids' writing group with other parents. When at home, read to your children--good readers make good writers. Encourage kids to write every day: letters to grandparents, haikus about their favorite dessert. Suggest they keep a journal and lead by example--let them see you writing notes and keeping a journal. Don't be critical of their efforts. The most...
...suppose it doesn’t help my case that my best friend, her skin now a succulent honey color, works as a lifeguard at the YMCA, while I work a 9-to-5 summer job at the local public library. I am a doubly cursed pale nerd for being both a Harvard student and a librarian. But I thoroughly enjoy researching local history in the reference department and helping with the summer reading program in the children’s department. My work provides me with a warm, inner glow, and the modest fluorescent light bulbs and the wavering...