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Friday Night Dances Gus Macker
Youth (grades 4-6) can enjoy their Top 40 favorite tunes the first Friday of every month in the Community Room.

July 9-10, 2011
Gus Macker Official Site
Click here for pictures from 2009 and 2010.

Halloween Parade Heathly Kids Day
The Norwich Family YMCA Annual Halloween Parade is held in conjunction with the Norwich Pumpkin Festival. Trophies and cash prizes were awarded for many different categories including but not limited to: Non-School Float, Family Costume/Float, School Float, and Business Float. Cash Prizes are awarded in the following costume categories: Funniest, Most Original, Spookiest, Cutest, and Judges Award.  Many area sponsors give donations so that we are able to award free door prizes to the boys and girls that participate in the entire event.
halloween

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is a free, fun-filled day of activities designed to promote healthy kids and families in spirit, mind and body. YMCA Healthy Kids Day community-based events celebrate making fitness fun, and introduce kids to an array of YMCA programs that teach healthy behaviors and healthy ways to play -- an essential lesson in learning how to take care of themselves throughout their lifetimes. YMCA Healthy Kids Day is part of YMCA Activate America, an innovative public health initiative of the YMCA movement that is making healthy living a reality for millions of Americans. By celebrating health and wellness of young people through a variety of fun, physical activities, YMCA Healthy Kids Day encourages kids and their families nationwide to stay active, connected and healthy. The YMCA Healthy Kids Day event is celebrated annually. Activities at participating YMCAs will vary and may include games, sports, health screenings and more.


Power Lifting Meet Turkey Trot
Bench Press, Deadlift, Squat, Clean & Press, and Strict Curl

 

turkey trot

2011 Results
Overall (pdf)
Overall (Excel)
Age Group (Excel)
Thank you to our sponsors!
Photos
This year's Turkey Trot broke the record for number of registered runners (656) and runners crossing the finish line (594). Thank you to everyone who participated in this wonderful community event that supports your local community YMCA, and a special thanks to all the volunteers.

2010 Results
Overall Results (PDF)
Overall Results (EXCEL)
Results by Age Group (PDF)
Results by Age Group (EXCEL)

2009 Overall Results
2009 Results by Age Group

The Norwich Family YMCA hosts its annual Turkey Trot the Sunday before Thanksgiving each year.  Each year we see hundreds of novice, recreational and competitive runners turn out to challenge themselves and/or just have fun.  Our 5K run is an enjoyable residential run with only one hill, finishing on the fast downhill. 

We also have an increasingly popular kids fun run just before the Turkey Trot starts, in which children up to the sixth grade can participate.  We have witnessed increasingly younger and older participants joining the Turkey Trot, with runners as young as nine years old and as experiences as 80 years old.  Entire families enter the run just for the fun of being active together.  We have also encouraged schools to send entire teams to the race, keeping their runners in shape in the off season and enticing them to bring a team trophy home to their schools!  We’d love to continue growing the Norwich Family YMCA 5K Turkey Trot, and hope we’ll see you there!

 

Norwich YMCA Footer The Norwich Family YMCA, a non-profit charitable organization, is a fellowship of persons of all ages, creeds and classes united in the common effort to develop the body, mind and spirit of our families, our communities, and ourselves through activities guided by and based upon Christian principles. The Norwich Family YMCA will strive to develop Christian personalities and will aid in building a Christian society through the improvement of physical, mental, social, moral and educational conditions of persons who participate in YMCA programs.