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Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge. / 51.15722°N 114.23083°W / 51.15722; -114.23083. Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge, designed by GEC Architecture for the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada is a large recreational facility located at Rocky Ridge, Calgary. The main sponsor of the project, Shane Homes, is a large homebuilder company rooted ...
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1] It was founded in London on 6 June 1844 by George Williams as the Young Men's Christian Association.
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada ( Spanish for 'The Canyon'), is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains [7] in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in the Crescenta Valley, in the western edge of the San Gabriel Valley, it is the location of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The foothills of the San Gabriel Valley are the foothills and hills in the San Gabriel Valley of eastern Los Angeles County, California. They include the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, and independent low mountain ranges of hills, in the east Greater Los Angeles region. The landforms are part of the Transverse Ranges System of Southern ...
Foothill Boulevard is a major road in the city and county of Los Angeles, as well as an arterial road in the city and county of San Bernardino, stretching well over 60 miles (97 km) in length, with some notable breaks along the route. Like its name implies, Foothill Boulevard runs across the foothills of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino ...
28th Street YMCA. / 34.01694°N 118.25722°W / 34.01694; -118.25722. The 28th Street YMCA is a historic YMCA building in South Los Angeles, California. It was listed as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2006 and put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The four-story structure was built in 1926 at a cost of ...
Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre (61 ha) botanical garden located in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County, California. It sits on the northern edge of the San Rafael Hills . Stream with ducks at Camellia Forest. Descanso Gardens features a wide area, mostly forested, with artificial streams, ponds, and lawns.
It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations. [1] The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.