Find Your Friends. Find Your Fun. Find Your Y.
Developing Skills, Friendships and Memories in the Summer Since 1965
[Brattleboro/Bellows Falls, Walpole, Springfield, March 28, 2025] – Meeting Waters YMCA, now in its 130th year of service to youth and families, will be running its popular day camp program as it has each summer since 1965. Over 15,000 area children and teens have attended Meeting Waters YMCAs camps over the past 60 years.
Summer is a time for kids to explore and expand the limits of their imagination. At Meeting Waters YMCA’s Y Day Camp, every day is a new adventure! Eight one-week sessions between June 30th and August 22nd will be offered for youth who have completed kindergarten through age 13. Y Day Camp takes place at the regional Y’s 52-acre Lewis Day Camp facility, located on Route 5 in Springfield, just off I-91. Bus service is provided to and from camp each day from Brattleboro, Putney, Westminster, Bellows Falls, Chester, Springfield, Walpole, and Charlestown.
Emily Hewes (Walpole, NH) has returned as the Director of Youth Development and will serve as Camp Director this summer. She has served in various roles at the Meeting Waters YMCA since she began as a camp counselor in 2008, including as Assistant Camp Director, and Y-ASPIRE staff. “We are looking forward to continuing our strong emphasis on relationships, achievement and belonging; character development; and social-emotional learning through a fun, active camp experience,” says Emily. “Y camp is a place where kids can develop skills, gain confidence and build new friendships.”
Through a partnership with WNESU Farm-to-School Café, Y Day Camp is a Federal Summer Food Program site. All campers—regardless of town of residence or family income—qualify for a free healthy breakfast and lunch each day.
And, to ensure that all youth have the chance to experience camp, Meeting Waters YMCA offers financial assistance to those who need it. If you’re interested in helping send kids to camp this summer, you can donate to the Y at www.meetingwatersymca.org/support.
For more information about Y Day Camp or the annual Reach Out to Youth fund drive, visit www.meetingwatersymca.org or contact their office at 802-463-4769 or [email protected].
About Meeting Waters YMCA
Founded by nearly 100 volunteers in 1895, Meeting Waters YMCA is a charitable, non-profit organization serving the youth, families, adults and communities in the Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Springfield and Fall Mountain regions. This organization is an equal opportunity provider.
About the YMCA Movement
The Y is one of the nation’s leading nonprofits strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the U.S., 2,600 Ys engage 22 million men, women and children – regardless of age, income or background – to nurture the potential of children and teens, improve the nation’s health and well-being, and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. Anchored in more than 10,000 communities, the Y has the long-standing relationships and physical presence not just to promise, but to deliver, lasting personal and social change. During each summer over 950,000 youth attend summer day and overnight camps at the Y. ymca.net
Contact:
Susan Fortier
Meeting Waters YMCA
802-380-5475
[email protected]