The Y is about many things, but at its core it is about community. Community means different things to different people at different times. At one moment a community may be a community of two people, whether they are friends or recent acquaintances. At other times it’s about a focus
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“You should feel this in your abs!” “Let’s try this one for 45 seconds.” “Here’s a new one that you haven’t done yet. It’s really ‘fun.’” “Let’s go one more round on those.” These are familiar exhortations for the over 1,300 Y members who work with a personal trainer to
After 25 years serving as a lieutenant at the Western District of the Baltimore City police department, Glenn Egbert retired not knowing exactly what life would bring him next. After being a cop for that long, he had certainly earned a bit of rest. However, Glenn is not the “retiring”
Last month we were proud to host Heartbeat for Health, sponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, at the Y in Arnold, our second year as host of this wonderful and important community event. With over 400 people in attendance (140 of whom were Y members), this
There is a new book out, called What I Found in a Thousand Towns, by the singer-songwriter Dar Williams. It’s the story of her visits to small towns throughout America on a quest to understand and document the essence of community. In it, she writes about “social capital,” deposits in