Save the Edmonds Yost Penguins community swim team
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Daniel H Cunningham
5 years ago
Keep the Swim Team!
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Our community needs this program! Please reinstate the Yost Penguins!
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Sonja Peterson
5 years ago
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I have no options for swim team for my son. He has been on the Yost team for 9 years. It is the only affordable option we have. I lost my job of 17 years due to COVID but have kept my membership to the Y on hold for over a year in hopes the Yost team will happen. There is no affordable option for swimming in shoreline or Edmonds. Please reconsider.
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Patrice Kettner
5 years ago
Yost Penguins is an essential program for younger swimmers in Edmonds.
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Kathleen Madigan
5 years ago
Children need this type of activity
The Splash pad at the Edmonds city park also needs to be opened for 2021
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Brandy Corujo
5 years ago
We have so appreciated the Yost swim team. Both of my kids learned to swim there and while one has moved onto a more competitive team, Yost is the right fit for my other daughter who has no interest in competitive swimming. Yost has provided a low pressure way to continue to stay active and make friends within her community all while being outside daily and enjoying an outdoor pool.
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Kacey P Hawker
5 years ago
Haven't kids suffered enough his past year?
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Maria Bremer
5 years ago
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Underprivileged, and differently abled kids need this space and opportunity. There should be room for both teams, if not, the competitive, able bodied children’s parents and team owners/coaches have more opportunity to find space elsewhere. I’m highly disappointed in this decision and behavior.
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Kirstie Mulvihill
5 years ago
I am very sad that the YMCA has not found a way to make this beloved swim team work this year. We need this for our kids!
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Jennifer Sabounchi
5 years ago
THANK YOU - to the person/people who started this petition! Way to speak up! We are in support of you, the swim team and of Yost Park pool staying open. :)
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Barbara A Boyle
5 years ago
Please reinstate the Yost Penguin program.
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Yelena Camiel
5 years ago
This is an essential for our family of both working parents to have Yost Pool swim team available! This is the only chance for our daughter to get exercise and communication, all that so much needed at thise difficult times.
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Nikki Glaros
5 years ago
I’ve been disappointed to watch the changes the Y organization has made to Yost pool over the past several years. Very impersonal, corporate and not at all interested in serving the Edmonds community who has loved this facility for generations. Many here have a negative view of the Y because of actions such as renting this community facility out to a private team while eliminating community program such as the Yost Swim Team. The Y has sone serious damage control to do to their corporate image and reinstating the swim team would go a long way toward repairing that image.
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Emily Fountain
5 years ago
The Yost Penguins swim team is an amazing public resource that should be continued!
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Katherine Orbegozo
5 years ago
We should support sports in our community, and swimming is a discipline that many kids and teens have been waiting to be open this summer
Keep the Swim Team!
Our community needs this program! Please reinstate the Yost Penguins!
I have no options for swim team for my son. He has been on the Yost team for 9 years. It is the only affordable option we have. I lost my job of 17 years due to COVID but have kept my membership to the Y on hold for over a year in hopes the Yost team will happen. There is no affordable option for swimming in shoreline or Edmonds. Please reconsider.
Yost Penguins is an essential program for younger swimmers in Edmonds.
Children need this type of activity The Splash pad at the Edmonds city park also needs to be opened for 2021
We have so appreciated the Yost swim team. Both of my kids learned to swim there and while one has moved onto a more competitive team, Yost is the right fit for my other daughter who has no interest in competitive swimming. Yost has provided a low pressure way to continue to stay active and make friends within her community all while being outside daily and enjoying an outdoor pool.
Haven't kids suffered enough his past year?
Underprivileged, and differently abled kids need this space and opportunity. There should be room for both teams, if not, the competitive, able bodied children’s parents and team owners/coaches have more opportunity to find space elsewhere. I’m highly disappointed in this decision and behavior.
I am very sad that the YMCA has not found a way to make this beloved swim team work this year. We need this for our kids!
THANK YOU - to the person/people who started this petition! Way to speak up! We are in support of you, the swim team and of Yost Park pool staying open. :)
Please reinstate the Yost Penguin program.
This is an essential for our family of both working parents to have Yost Pool swim team available! This is the only chance for our daughter to get exercise and communication, all that so much needed at thise difficult times.
I’ve been disappointed to watch the changes the Y organization has made to Yost pool over the past several years. Very impersonal, corporate and not at all interested in serving the Edmonds community who has loved this facility for generations. Many here have a negative view of the Y because of actions such as renting this community facility out to a private team while eliminating community program such as the Yost Swim Team. The Y has sone serious damage control to do to their corporate image and reinstating the swim team would go a long way toward repairing that image.
The Yost Penguins swim team is an amazing public resource that should be continued!
We should support sports in our community, and swimming is a discipline that many kids and teens have been waiting to be open this summer
Please keep Yost pool open
So important we keep this community team!