{"id":32536,"date":"2012-12-11T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=32536"},"modified":"2012-12-11T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T12:07:52","slug":"ywca-offering-winter-swim-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/11\/ywca-offering-winter-swim-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"YWCA offering winter swim lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YWCA information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The YWCA of Van Wert County is now accepting registration for its winter swim lesson session. The eight-week session begins January 9 and runs through February 28. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday evenings.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA offers two basic youth swim programs: Red Cross Preschool Swim Program and Red Cross Learn-to-Swim Program.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross Preschool Swim Program works with children 3-5 years olds teaching them the basic water propulsive skills, creating awareness of their aquatic environment and working on gaining their greater aquatic independence.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA also offers a Parent Child class for younger children 6 months old to 2 years old. These classes are 30 minutes long.\u00a0 Class fees for this four-week program are $28 for members.\u00a0 Class fees for non-members are $36.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross Learn-to-Swim Program begins at Level 1, helping participants feel comfortable in the water and works up through Level 6, which refines strokes and teaches participants to swim with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over great distances. These classes are 45 minutes long. Class fees for this four-week program are $36 for members.\u00a0 Class fees for non-members are $45.<\/p>\n<p>General operating hours are Monday-Thursday, 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 6:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; and closed Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA is a United Way and Van Wert County Foundation funded agency. For more information contact Program Director Danni Chiles at 419.238.6639.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YWCA information The YWCA of Van Wert County is now accepting registration for its winter swim lesson session. The eight-week session begins January 9 and runs through February 28. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The YWCA offers two basic youth swim programs: Red Cross Preschool Swim Program and Red Cross Learn-to-Swim Program. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 20:06:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}