GIVING TO THE YMCA

ANNUAL CAMPAIGN

“SUSTAINING OUR MISSION”

The

Auglaize/Mercer

Counties Family

YMCA

Sustaining Our

Mission

Annual Fund

Dear Friend,

The Auglaize/Mercer Counties Family YMCA is something very special. We’ve been committed to building strong kids, strong families, and strong communities for the last 20 years. We do this through providing programs and services that reflect the YMCA core values of Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility.

Your help is needed. Annual contributions, which equal 10% of the Y’s budget, are needed to help keep Y programs strong and affordable. In addition, the “Sustaining Our Mission” campaign will assure that financial assistance is available to needy families and individuals so that no one is denied participation in any YMCA program due to a lack of ability to pay.

Would you please consider supporting the efforts of our volunteers with your gift to the YMCA’s “Sustaining Our Mission” Campaign? You can even designate where you want your dollars to go. Your financial support could make all the difference. Help the Auglaize/Mercer Counties Family YMCA build strong kids, strong families, and a strong community!

Sincerely,

Allen Baskett

Allen Baskett, Chief Executive Officer

Auglaize/Mercer Counties YMCA

Money Well Spent!

Membership & Program Support:
More than 250 individuals and families received assistance for their YMCA memberships or program participation.
School Groups:
60 school groups with over 5,000 young people were granted access to the YMCA facilities.
Health Fairs at the YMCA:
In partnership with JTDMH and Mercer Health, the YMCA hosted annual Health Fairs at both of our YMCA locations providing area residents with access to health and wellness information.
YMCA Healthy Kids Day:
Over 1,200 youth and their parents participated in this annual event promoting strong healthy kids, families, and communities.
Childcare Assistance:
Assistance provided to parents with children enrolled in the YMCA’s Learning Center Childcare program.
Special Events:
Support provided to other not-for-profit groups working in cooperation with the YMCA like the scouts, church groups, Big Bro/Big Sis, area Chambers of Commerce, CYO, etc.
Dollars Needed:	$ 150,000

North Branch

7590 State Route 703

Celina, Ohio 45822

419-586-9622

South Branch

04075 Wuebker Road

Minster, Ohio 45865

419-629-9622

New Bremen Learning Center

714 East Monroe Street

New Bremen, Ohio 45869

419-629-2507

Auglaize/Mercer

Counties Family

YMCA

Your gift to the YMCA’s “Sustaining Our Mission” campaign helps to insure that we can say….

“No one will be turned away due to inability to pay”.

Sometimes the biggest reasons for giving to the YMCA are the

LITTLE ONES!

Want To Help?

You can contribute at any one of the following levels:

$25.00 - $99.00 $100.00 - $499.00 $500.00 - $999.00 $1,000.00 - $2,499.00 $2,500.00 - $4,999.00 $5,000.00 plus

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Sustainer Century Mission Chairman’s Chairman’s Plus Chairman’s Elite

You can credit your pledge to the center of your choice:

* North Branch	* South Branch
* New Bremen Learning Ctr.		* To The Greatest Need

We can bill you monthly, quarterly, or annually for your pledge.

Please make checks payable to:

The Auglaize/Mercer Co. YMCA

Mail To:

Susan Albers

Auglaize/Mercer Co. YMCA

7590 State Rt 703

Celina, Ohio 45822

2007	“SUSTAINING OUR MISSION” ANNUAL CAMPAIGN DONORS			2007
The Auglaize Mercer Family YMCA wishes to thank these individuals and businesses for stepping up and being counted as “Y” Sustainers. Their support of our “Sustaining Our Mission” Annual Fund Campaign enables the YMCA to continue its mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. To date we have raised over $104,000 in Sustaining Dollars. It’s not too late to add your name to our list. Just contact us here at the YMCA and find out how you can Sustain Our Mission and help the YMCA to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. Rob Allen Rob Albers, Campaign Chair Allen Baskett, Chief Executive Officer YMCA Volunteer YMCA Staff
Chairmans Elite $5,000 and above Machine Concepts Precision Strip Chairmans Plus $2,500 to $4,999 Kiwanis Club of Minster Minster Bank Minster F.O.E. #1391 Minster Machine Progress Tool & Stamping, Inc. Chairmans:$1,000 to $2,499 AAP St. Marys Auglaize Erie Machine, Inc. Buschur Electric CAPT Celina Insurance Group Celina Rotary Club Dorsten Industries Inc. Sean Dorsten Falcoln Financial Services-Paul Albers First Financial Bank First National Bank Audrey Meyer Minster Civic Association Minster Journeymans Club New Bremen Machine & Tool Inc. Parker Hannifin Peoples Bank R.F. Woehrmyer Concrete Construction Inc. SecurCom St. Henry Bank St. Marys Eagles #767 St. Marys Rotary Club Stammen – Paragon Insurance Agency Mission $500 to $999 Baumer Construction Citizen’s National Bank Albert Freytag Inc. Orval & Helen Homan Robert Leugers M. C. Bernhold Insurance Agency Minster Community Insurance Minster Dental Care New Bremen American Legion Post #241 Precision Reflex, Inc. Jay & Renee Purpus St. Marys Community Foundation St. Henry Tile Company Tom & Sandy Thieman		Century $100 to $499 Rob & Lisa Albers Anonymous Deloris Bailey Allen & Margaret Baskett Best Value Inn & Suites David Bryenton Buehler Asphalt Paving, Inc. Burke’s Petroleum Service Carriage Werkes, Inc. Joe Cavanaugh Mark Cisco & Company Robert H. & Susan Clune Cotterman & Company, Inc. Brian Duffy Dan Dunlap Gagel Plumbing & Heating, Inc. Steve Gruber Loretta Herkenhoff Charitable Trust Image Machine, Inc. Kerns Auto Group Tom Knapke Steven Mackenbach Master Machine Rebuilders, Inc. Frank McKirnan James & Victoria Meiring John & Marguerite Moul Harold & Nancy Niekamp Bryan Niemeyer Ed Noble Kraig Noble Karen O’Flaherty Mel’s Decorating Craig & Dianne Oldiges James L. Overman DDS, Inc. Rudy Quinter RB Advertising-Shelly Bruns Ronald L. Riebel, DDS John Remington Reynolds & Reynolds Tami Sanford Tim & Kay Schmiesing Diane Schwieterman James & Shirley Shenk Fred & Sherry Sommer Spieles Chiropractic Clinic, Inc. Doug & Brenda Spieles Jeff Squire St. Augustine Orphan Society St. Marys Foundry St. Marys Surgical Associates Larry Stelzer John & Cindy Storrer	Century (Cont.) $100 to $499 Stroh, Johnson and Company Robert & Roseann Sudhoff Tomorrow’s Technology Today TSC Venetian Gardens Versa Pak, Ltd. Denny Vogel Carla Walter Brian & Michelle Wolf Joe & Sandy Wolf Tony & Judy Wolf Sustainer $10 to $99 Susan Albers American Budget American Legion Post 387 Paula Bailey Ted Beckman Chuck & Vicki Behm Megan Berning Pedro Blanco Chivington Chiropractic Stan Davis Roger & Charlotte Duncan Vernon & JoAnn Feldwisch Cindy Fishbaugh Gehret Nursery, Inc. Ann Heitbrink Johna Hemmelgarn Homan & Stucke Construction Robert & Brenda Klein Ron Krugh Minster Auto Electric Minster Food Distributors Susan Moeller Northtowne Sunoco Ranly Cabinets Gary Rasberry Romer’s Catering Richard Schulze Lu Smith Pat Smith Leslie Stienecker Lynne Taylor Mark Thieman Bruce & Karla Thobe Becky VanTilburg Adele Walls Heather Wenning

YMCA HERITAGE CLUB

ENDOWING THE YMCA

Remembering the YMCA in your Estate Planning

The YMCA needs you now….and in the future.

The YMCA has been providing programs and services to the Auglaize and Mercer Counties area since 1983. If we are to continue to build on this proud tradition, we must have future funding to insure that the YMCA will be able to meet the challenge of providing additional programs and services as well as maintaining our facilities and equipment.

THE

YMCA

HERITAGE

CLUB

FOUNDATION

The YMCA’s Heritage Club is an Endowment Program which enables individuals to get allowable tax savings and other benefits through a variety of current and deferred gift endowment plans, outright gifts of cash or securities, trusts, insurance policies, a bequest in one’s will or through other considerations you feel are appropriate.

Future generations are depending on your support.

MEMORIALS

Sue Slavik March 12, 1946 - October 19, 2003 Our community lost one of its treasures with the passing of Sue Slavik. Sue was not only Swim Coach for our YMCA Waves Swim team for about as many years as anyone can remember. She also coached countless young swimmers during the summer for the Coldwater Community Swim Team as well as the Celina High School Waterdogs Swim Team. To the Celina High School Swimmers, Sue was known as “Mama Water Dog”. Sue’s passing leaves a tremendous void not only for us here at the Y, but for the hundreds of area swimmers throughout our communities. But Sue was much more than a coach. To the swimmers she was a mom, a friend, a teacher, a mentor, and if you got out of line…she was judge, jury, and executioner if you needed a little re-direction. Sue not only made you a better swimmer, she made you a better person. Sue’s spirit will live on through the efforts of the coaches who will follow her and through the thousands of area swimmers and children in the Mercer County Head Start program where Sue worked, who were touched by her spirit and enthusiasm. Thank you Sue! Memorial contributions can be made to the Sue Slavik Scholarship Fund. Sue Slavik Memorial Scholarship Fund C/O Mr. Matthew Slavik Trustee P.O. Box 351 New Knoxville, OH 45871	Sue Slavik “Coach” You have touched our hearts  forever and will never be forgotten!
Layne Scott Memorial Fund First CEO of the Auglaize/Mercer Counties YMCA
Layne was the first CEO of the Auglaize/Mercer Counties YMCA. He served this association from 1983 through 1987. Layne began his career at the Anderson, Indiana YMCA. He came to Auglaize/Mercer from Anderson. Layne then went from here to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was the Director of the M.E. Lyons YMCA in Cincinnati. Ten years later he accepted the challenge of CEO for the YMCA of Huntsville & North Alabama where he continued until his death on the 21^st of June, 2003. Layne was a great Christian leader, a leader in bringing Scuba instruction to our area, and an avid pilot. He died on Saturday June 21, 2003 when his ultra light plane crashed into a wheat field in Madison County, Alabama. Layne is survived by his wife Karen and three children. A memorial fund has been established through the Auglaize/Mercer Counties YMCA Foundation. Contributions can be made in care of the YMCA Foundation, P.O. Box 46, Minster, Ohio, 45865.