Last Updated: Monday, May 5, 2008 10:42 AM CDT
Local teens attend leadership rally
By Michael Skubal - Daily News Staff
Members of the Teen Leaders Club of the YMCA of the Northwoods attended their first Spring Rally April 5th and 6th at the YMCA at Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc. Over 400 young people from Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Minnesota attended.
The Teen Leaders Club of the YMCA of the Northwoods is a nationally recognized club for teens where members develop leadership skills useful as they assume roles in the community and the YMCA. The program is funded by the Rhinelander Kiwanis.
The goals of the Teen Leaders Club are to “encourage and strengthen positive values like caring, honesty, responsibility and respect, to develop lasting friendships, provide volunteer services to the YMCA and the community, to learn and develop leadership skills for the future, to fund-raise for and participate in recreational activities, to develop and maintain a healthy mind, body and spirit, to encourage a healthy lifestyle, learning and good grades, to appreciate diversity, develop a sense of world-mindedness and have fun.”
Paula Schultz, Teen Leaders Club Coordinator, talked about the Spring Rally, “It was a time for clubs to gather and share ideas, make new friends, learn team building, and work on the core values of the YMCA. They put on skits based on these core values. Attendees had a chance to see one another and take part in rock climbing and racquetball, two things we don’t have at the YMCA of the Northwoods.
A lot of the participants said they saw people they wouldn’t normally see, people from different cultures. Our kids were mostly younger and they got a chance to see high school kids and how they can participate in YMCA activities as they get older. They may have made lifelong friends. It was a time to get together and have fun.”
A visit to a waterpark was a highlight of the time spent in Oconomowoc. And they had a chance to reflect on the highs and lows of the day.
Schultz has been with the Y for two years and started the Teen Leaders Club in 2007. “This is our first year,” said Schultz. “And this is the first rally attended from the YMCA of the Northwoods. They pulled an all-nighter on Saturday so the trip home was very quiet.”
For more information on this or any other program at the YMCA, call 362-9622.
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