On Nov. 8, a group of excited youngsters arrived at YMCA Camp Sloper with their families and left with a brand new BMX bicycle thanks to the generosity of ESPN of Bristol. The giveaway was part of a team-building exercise that resulted in the construction of the bikes. In conjunction with YMCA Camp Sloper, the bikes were given to campers to encourage them to become more physically active.

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Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA

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YMCA Camp Sloper Director Mark Pooler, back left, and ESPN Corporate Outreach coordinator, Don Brooks, right, stand with Elijah and Evan Sheen, front left and right, two of the lucky recipients of new X Games bicycles donated by ESPN.

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, YMCA Camp Sloper will offer a free drop-in program for Southington middle school and high school teens. Members and non-members are welcome to sign up for the day that begins right after school and runs until 6 p.m. Transportation will be provided from the two middle schools and the high school; parents must pick up their teen by 6 p.m.

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Early Bird Registration took a different form this year with an online only process. “We weren’t quite sure what kind of response we would have to the online Early Bird Registration, but we started receiving registrations within minutes of the 8 a.m.

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Photo courtesy of YMCA Camp Sloper Outdoor Center

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Gathering for the “first campers” photo are, back row, from left, Mark Pooler, YMCA Camp Sloper director; Jay Jaronko, East Coast director; Pat Rosin, assistant camp director; and Steve Silva, West Cost director. In the front row are Donovan Greenlaw, left, and his sister, Bethany Greenlaw, first campers registered for the 2011 Camp Sloper season.

When plungers take to the ice on Sloper Pond for the 6^th Annual Polar Plunge the first team to jump will be 2011 Feature Team: Team Calvanese Foundation The plungewill be held at YMCA Camp Sloper in Southington on Saturday, Jan.

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Long before there was a UConn nation, there was a Yukon tribe, one of the five Indian tribes that formed the early days of the Southington-Cheshire YMCA’s Camp Sloper.
That tribe, along with the Sioux, Mohawk, Crow and the Algonquin tribes, made up the basic organization structure of the Y’s day camp for boys on East Street.

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Citizen photo by Harry Kyle

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From left to right, Kurt Johnson, Brian Callahan and William Heath, members of the original Y Camp Sloper day camp, stand in front of the red barn where it all began for them 59 years ago.