YMCA’s Sports, Youth, and Family Director Veronika Magnelind shares her strong hopes and plans for the future at a Kiwanis meeting June 21 at TOTH. Courtesy/Kiwanis
By BROOK DAVIS
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos
The Family YMCA Sports, Youth, and Family Director Veronika Magnelind has strong hopes and plans for the future, which she shared with Kiwanians in a talk at their June 21 Meeting at Trinity on the Hill (TOTH).
Magnelind said that she would like to get going on more programs for middle school students, including one she has started that helps students learn how to handle a wide variety of difficult life decisions. Magnelind said she believes it is important to help student develop strength in both mind and body.
Among her desired future plans, Magnelind said are intensive basketball training (and training in other sports including tennis), adding intramural sports, working with Ys in other states, and adding a bouldering cave to the climbing wall.
When asked what things she needed if she could snap her fingers and get them, she responded with increased high school student participation, more coaches and referees, and more gymnasiums (including facilities in White Rock).
About Kiwanis:
Kiwanis is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. Since 1987, the organization also accepts women as members. Membership in Kiwanis and its family of clubs is more than 600,000 members. Each year, Kiwanis clubs raise more than US $100 million and report more than 18.5 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve children.
There are seven regions in Kiwanis: Africa; Asia-Pacific; Canada and Caribbean; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; and United States and Pacific Canada. The United States and Pacific Canada Region incorporates the 50 states of the United States as well as British Columbia and the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Kiwanis Objectives:
- To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life;
- To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships;
- To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards;
- To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship;
- To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships;
- To render altruistic service and to build better communities; and
- To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism that make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
Kiwanis Meetings:
The Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos meets noon to 1 p.m. Tuesdays in Kelly Hall at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church, 3900 Trinity Dr. The meetings are open to the public. Learn more here.