My Everett News

This in today from the YMCA of Snohomish County. In partnership with Everett Public Schools and Puget Sound Taxpayers Accountability Account (PSTAA) grant program, the YMCA of Snohomish County is providing free swim lessons to all district Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) students, filling an identified need to support water safety for local […]

Some fun news out of the Everett Family YMCA last week. The Everett Family YMCA gifted dozens of bikes to local children thanks to a generous donation from Nintex, a process intelligence software company headquartered in Bellevue, WA. Nintex employees built the bikes as part of a team-building event at its global sales conference last […]

The Everett Family YMCA kicked off their annual fundraising drive last week. The Everett branch is located at 4730 Colby Avenue in Everett, Washington. Here’s more about this year’s campaign. The Everett Family YMCA kicked off the 2023 Annual Campaign on Saturday, February 11, inspiring volunteers to campaign on behalf of the Y. This year’s […]

Word in from the YMCA of Snohomish County Association Office in Everett, Washington that a program to encourage 6 – 8th graders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is being launched at the Everett, Stanwood-Camano and Mill Creek YMCA locations. The program is open to all, YMCA membership is not necessary. Here are the […]

In March of 2020 the Swim Center at Forest Park in Everett, Washington shut down like most other public facilities during the Pandemic. However, due to budget constraints, the pool never re-opened. On Monday we checked in via email with Cory Rettenmier at Everett Parks and Recreation who reported the status of the pool at […]

Spent some time this Saturday and Sunday watching two huge machines take “bites” out of the former YMCA Annex which is being torn down to make way for apartments in downtown Everett, Washington. Here are way too many photos. Click to enlarge.

Wednesday night the Everett City Council unanimously agreed to a contract that will allow the YMCA of Snohomish County to operate the facilities at the Camp Patterson site at Thornton A. Sullivan Park at Silver Lake. The YMCA can use the Camp Patterson facilities Monday through Friday from 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM from June […]

This afternoon we received the real estate offering for the two properties now for sale by the YMCA of Snohomish County in downtown Everett, Washington. Here it is in case you’d like to pick up some prime downtown property: Exceptionally well-located development assemblage comprised of two separate sites totaling 1.25-acres in the core of downtown […]

On Wednesday the Everett City Council will be briefed regarding the naming of a new city park at the south end of the new YMCA under construction on Colby Avenue in the Glacier Park neighborhood. The Everett Historical Commission has proposed naming the park after Doctor Arthur S. Grossman, a family practice doctor and obstetrician […]

In 30 years or so people are going to look back and realize what a great opportunity this was. That was the message expressed by both members of the Everett City Council and the YMCA of Snohomish County Wednesday night after a unanimous vote by council members to approve a partnership with the Y that […]