Longtime volunteers, staff members honored at YMCA meeting
PROSPECT – Staff, community supporters and organization leaders celebrated another year of providing services to the region at the Butler County Family YMCA’s first in-person annual meeting since 2019.
The event, held at The Atrium in Prospect, gathered together friends and employees of the YMCA to honor the organization’s events, projects, achievements and initiatives from the past year.
“We like to get together all of our board and our staff and our community supporters once every year, to celebrate what we do at the Y and what we do to support our community,” Butler YMCA executive director Sandy Ihlenfeld said. “It’s a very big deal for us to get together. I think everyone feels the same. They’re ready to come out and celebrate things together.”
“It was really hard for us not to have this. We had it virtually, but we didn’t have the attendance that we would have loved to have,” Rose E. Schneider Family YMCA Executive Director Carrie Ohorodnyk said. “It energizes me. It gives me a sense that I work for a great organization, that we serve people, and that my job has purpose, and it helps me to keep moving along.”
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