In This Issue Summer Camps Membership Cultural Arts Fitness Early Childhood Aquatics Youth and Teen Active Adults Connect with us! Upcoming Holiday Closings Labor Day: -The Center will be open Monday, September 7 from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm. -The pool at Camp Hilbert will be open Monday, September 7 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Rosh Hashanah The Center will be closed on Monday, September 14 . Yom Kippur The Center will be closed on Wednesday, September 23. Summer Camps It's hard to believe that it's August and we're already preparing for our last few weeks of camp! We've had a blast with our campers this summer and we're excited to finish off the season strong and with lots of fun! Still interested in signing your child up for one of our camps this summer? We still have a few spots available in our Hoops 101 with Coach Ed Camp (previously Bob Foley Next Level Basketball Camp) for Week 9 (August 10 - August 14). Kids in grades 2-8 are eligible to join this Specialty Camp designed to teach all aspects of the game. Kids will work with Coach Ed on the basic fundamentals of shooting, ball handling and passing, and can play in 1 on 1, 3 on 3, and 5 on 5 tournaments. There will also be other games and contests with a chance for everyone to win great prizes. Come join us for a fun and exciting week of basketball! For more information or to register, please call 285-6500. Membership
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In This Issue
Summer Camps
Membership
Cultural Arts
Fitness
Early Childhood
Aquatics
Youth and Teen
Active Adults
Connect with us!
Upcoming Holiday Closings
Labor Day: -The Center will be openMonday, September 7 from7:00 am to 3:00 pm. -The pool at Camp Hilbert willbe open Monday, September 7from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Rosh Hashanah The Center will be closed onMonday, September 14.
Yom Kippur The Center will be closed onWednesday, September 23.
Summer Camps
It's hard to believethat it's August andwe're alreadypreparing for our lastfew weeks of camp!We've had a blastwith our campers thissummer and we'reexcited to finish offthe season strongand with lots of fun!
Still interested in signing your child up for one of our camps thissummer? We still have a few spots available in our Hoops 101with Coach Ed Camp (previously Bob Foley Next LevelBasketball Camp) for Week 9 (August 10 - August 14). Kids in
grades 2-8 are eligible to join thisSpecialty Camp designed to teach all aspects of the game. Kids will work withCoach Ed on the basic fundamentals ofshooting, ball handling and passing, andcan play in 1 on 1, 3 on 3, and 5 on 5tournaments. There will also be othergames and contests with a chance foreveryone to win great prizes. Come joinus for a fun and exciting week ofbasketball! For more information or to
register, please call 285-6500.
Membership
Thanks to the generosity of so many, the WeinstenJCC is on the home stretch of its Capital andEndowment Campaign - we are only $200,000 awayfrom ending the campaign that started two yearsago! Reaching this Campaign milestone will allow usto fund the completed capital improvements to CampHilbert and the Monument Avenue facility, establish a$1,000,000 Capital Replacement and Endowment Fundand eliminate the outstanding debt from our previouscampaign.
It's not too late to be a part of the "Honoring the Past ~ Securing the Future" Campaign! Onerewarding way is to purchase a Brick Paver in our Neil November Plaza or Preschool Median. For aslittle as $200/year (brick pavers are payable over 5 years) it's a perfect way to honor a loved one orcapture a special moment in time. Thank you again to those who have participated in the Campaign. For those who have not,please give Margret O'Keefe a call at 804-545-8609 or visit our website at weinsteinjcc.org to learnmore and make your contribution to improve the present and preserve the future of the Center! Our time for fun in the sun out at Camp Hilbert is drawing to a close! Be sure to save the date forSunday, September 6, as we have one last celebration of another great camp season out atCamp Hilbert. Join us at our End of Summer Splash Bash from 12:00-3:00 pm for some great food,fun music and entertaining pool games. We hope to see you there! For information and directionsclick here.
In observance of Labor Day, the Center will be open from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm onMonday, September 7. That same weekend, the Camp Hilbert pool will be openfor the last time this summer for its regular weekend hours (11:00 am-6:00 pm). Make sure to get in one last session of swimming and fun!
Cultural Arts
Our 2015-2016 Patrons of the Arts Guide will be hitting homes later this month andwill be full of exciting events coming this season! You won't want to miss a singleoffering this year!
And save the date! Our kick-off event will take place on Sunday, October11 at 3pm. Join us in welcoming Mentalist Eran Raven as he performs aninteractive show filled with action and entertainment that's sure to blow yourmind! Subscribe today! Contact Erin Mahone at [email protected] 545-8644.
Have you worked-out on our state-of-the-art fitness equipmentyet? In addition to our new PowerMill and Elliptical Cross-Trainers, our new treadmills are up and running! We arepleased to be able to provide brand new pieces of fitnessequipment every year for our members. If you haven't tried anyof the the recent equipment additions yet, please stop on bythe Center and test the new machines out! And of course, youcan ask any of the fitness staff any questions you might have.
And, be sure to check our some of our group exercise classestoo! Class schedules can be found around the Center and at the front desk. Already participating insome of our group exercise classes? If so, make sure to check out these summer Group Ex classupdates to make sure you know all about when your favorite classes meet:
Insanity (Fridays, 12:15 pm) has been cancelled.Gentle Yoga on Saturdays has been moved to the Group Exercise Studio and will meet at9:20am.BodyAttack has been added! The class will meet on Mondays at 10:30am in the Banks Gym.
We'd also like to remind you that the CycleRoom will be closed August 31 throughSeptember 10 for renovations. During thistime, Cycle classes will be in the BanksGym and the Saturday 9:15 am class willbe cancelled. We appreciate your patienceas we continue to improve our facilities forour members!
D on't miss our August living4life newsletter out soon!
Early Childhood
As the school year approaches, we are eagerly awaiting all of our students returning to Preschool! Wehave several dates for you to mark on your calendars before school starts in early September:
Monday, August 31-Wednesday, September 2: Preschool will be CLOSED for an all-stafftraining. Preschool will resume with its normal hours on Thursday, September 3. Wednesday, September 2: Join us for our Open House for preschool families. The OpenHouse will be from 5:30-6:30 pm and will be a great time for you and your children to meet theirteachers in a fun and casual setting. We hope to see you there!Thursday, September 3: Parents are invited to attend our Preschool Parent Orientation
(adults only, please) at 7:00 pm. Come and learn about your child's preschool program!
We are also accepting orders for Special Round Challahs for RoshHashanah and Yom Kippur. Orders for Rosh Hashanah are due byFriday, September 4 at noon and can be picked up on Thursday,September 10 after 10:00 am. Orders for Yom Kippur are due byWednesday, September 16 at noon and can be picked up Monday,September 21 after 10:00 am. Make sure to get your order in so youhave plenty of Special Round Challahs for all of your 2015 holiday festivities!
Aquatics
As the summer 2015 swim season comes to a close, we're looking backon our fantastic regular season and performances at CHAMPS. TVDCis incredibly lucky to have such an amazing group of kids and parents! Inaddition to our meets, we had several great social events, like going to aFlying Squirrels baseball game, having a huge pasta dinner, swimmingaround with some huge floats for float night and, of course, our team trip towater Country USA! We had a blast this summer and we can't wait for the
next swim season!! Our Dolphin Team had another banner year. We finished theregular season (Meets 1-6) with an impressive 5-1 record. Andall of our age groups received GRAL awards. Our Senior VarsityRelays, Senior Varsity Division, Varsity Division and JuniorVarsity Division all received first-place awards. Not far behind, ourAdvance and Novice Divisions both received second placeawards. What a team! Our swimmers also did a phenomenal job at Champs!The Tuckahoe Village Dolphin Club placed 11th overall (out of 29 teams) and 1st in ourdivision (division 3). If you would like to see all of the CHAMPS results, please visitwww.gralva.com
In addition to having such a fantastic team, we were also luckyto congratulate one of our very own swimmers (and coach!) ona special award he received. Coach Benny Winkelmanreceived the GRAL Len Everett scholarship, a scholarshipawarded to one graduating senior out of the entire league whohas set a good example not only in the sport of swimming butalso in academics. Benny has been involved in several eventshappening around the Center over the years, and he has justcompleted his 14th year with the Weinstein JCC Dolphin Swim
Team (a team record!). We wish him all the best as he leaves for his freshman year at the Universityof Cincinnati in the fall. We'd also like to give a huge thank you to our coaches and volunteers on a job well done thisseason. Congratulations to each and every one of our swimmers--hope to see you at the poolsoon!
Are you trying to find a few more fun things for your kids to do this summerbefore heading back to school? Kids' Place Camp is the perfect programfor you! As part of Kids' Place Camp, your child will participate in severalfield trips around Richmond, as well as a variety of fun activities around theCenter. Bowling, visiting the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the AviationMuseum, jumping around in bounce houses at the Center and going roller-skating are just a few of the exciting things we've got planned for yourcampers!
We have a very limited amount of spaces available for our camps August 17-31. For registrationinformation, contact LaVenus Harried, Kids' Place Supervisor, at 545-8639 [email protected].
Active Adults
Mark your calendar for this month's 5400 Men's Club and Food for Thought programs: Monday, August 10th, 12:45-2pm, with guest speaker, Adam Ewing, Ph.D., Professor at VirginiaCommonwealth University: Marcus Garvey and the Civil Rights Movement.
Monday, August 17th, Special Time: 12-1pm, with guest speaker Tim Evans, Forensic Accountantwith FBI Richmond: Simple Steps to Spot, Avoid and Report Scams of All Kinds.
Monday, August 24th, 12:45-2pm, with guest speaker, Professor Jeff South, Fulbright Scholar atVirginia Commonwealth University: Censorship in China and What We Can Do About It.
Monday, August 31st, 12:45-2pm, with guest speaker, Bernie Henderson with Woody Funeral Home:Lincoln's 16 Burials.
Join us early at noon with a brown bag lunch! RSVP at the Front Desk or with Shari Menlowe-Barck at545-8611.
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