The Wa Wa Wally Waddle was a smashing success!

What a day!

The 3rd Annual Wa Wa Wally Waddle was a great success, with more runners, more spectators and more pies!  It was a gorgeous day for the 5K race and the kids races- the 1 mile race and 100 yard dash.  There were a good number of families there, either running, walking or cheering on the participants.  Speaking of the participants, their numbers have increased almost 3 times since the first race!

A new addition to this years festivities was an option to purchase raffle tickets.  Camp Alum Georgia LoPresti Meckes donated the prize, a 2 night stay at Cold Moon Farm Luxury Farmstay for 2 in Jamaica, Vermont.  The raffle alone raised just about enough money to send a kid to camp!  Here's more on Cold Moon Farm- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwTn04RXJMg

And that's what the Wa Wa Wally Waddle is all about, raising money for camp scholarships to send kids to our favorite camp.   All together, over $4,000 was raised!

We want to thank all the volunteers who came out and helped organize the race, baked the pies, coordinated the registration, worked on the course itself, and we especially thank Josh and Lisa Perks, the race directors!  We also want to thank all the sponsors for their support as well as the MidHudson Road Runners Club for their hard work.

Babycakes Café
CAYA Restaurant & Café
Finnish Solutions
Mid-Hudson Oral Surgeons
Mid-Hudson Road Runners Club
Molloy Pharmacy
Morris Associates Engineering Consultants
Roadkill Racing
Soul Dog Restaurant
Tubby’s Bathtub Resurfacing
Zimmer Brothers Jewelers

Here's some pics from the day-  Thanks to the various picture takers for their time and efforts in getting the right shot!

                                                     Early on at Race Day

Sarah arranging the Pie Table

Wa Wa Wally is here!

The runners start arriving to register.

Some Friends of Segowea!

Turtle Cupcakes, naturally! (from Bella Cakes)

Zach and Dave having a stare down over who gets the last cupcake.

The Kids 100 Yard Dash.

The main Event- the 5K!

And they're off!

Race Director (and Dad) Josh Perks showing the way.

Lisa looking spiffy in the Turtle hat.

Mike and Amy on water duty.

Dave running hard.

Katie in the home stretch.

Sara and Abby taking time to smile.

Minna's not breaking a sweat! 

Amy posing.  Okay, what's the raffle?

The Harvey's out racing!

Announcing the winners.

Look at all those pies!

3 Time Champ Mike Insler!

3 time winner Marisa Strange choosing her pie.

Yes, that's the one!

Camp Alum Richard wins a pie!

Some more pictures taken of the day are here-

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The Spring season at YMCA Camp Wa Wa Segowea!

We're full into the Spring season at YMCA Camp Wa Wa Segowea with work weekends, Open Houses and getting ready for June 24th, the first day of Summer Camp!

Thanks to the people who participated last weekend in the work.  It was leaves, leaves and more leaves!  It took raking them, gathering them and using Norm's Leaf vacuum to get rid of quite a bit of them.  Also on the agenda, construction of the new front gate, some general cleaning and moving some stuff around and getting ready for the first Open House on Sunday.  It was a very small turnout of people, so we could really use your help the next time around.

If you plan on attending an Open House, you need to RSVP, so please contact Camp Director Kat Fitzpatrick at 518-656-9462 Ext 6632 or  kfitzpatrick@cdymca.org

Here's the schedule at camp:

Sunday May 6th- Open House


Sunday May 20th- Open House


May 26-27th- Work Weekend


Sunday June 3rd- Open House


Sunday June 10th- Open House


June 16-17th-  Work Weekend


Sunday June 17th- Open House

If by chance you would like to help get camp ready to open, but can't make a work weekend, please give Camp Property Director, Norm Button a call and make arrangements.  He's pretty flexible, especially if you can help during the week!
413-229-9110 or nbutton@cdymca.org

You'll notice something is happening every weekend at camp right up to when camp opens, except for May 12th, and that's because that day is all about the Wa Wa Wally Waddle!  It's the 3rd Annual Wa Wa Wally Waddle, a 5k Run/Walk held at Vassar Farms in Poughkeepsie.  Please see last month's post-
http://segowea.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-time-for-the-wa-wa-wally-waddle.html

Here's some pictures from the work weekend.

One half of the new front gate

The other half, almost complete.

A peek underneath of Norm's vision of the front gate.

Ed using the leaf vacuum.

Just one truckload of leaves- There was a few!

Some gravel for the canoe dock area, under construction.

The canoe dock area under construction.

The docks are ready to be put in their right location.

Some excavation work was done to make room for the newest camp addition.

(To be announced soon!)

Kat in full raking mode.