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Groundbreaking Set For Atchison YMCA

By Brian Hagen

04/26/2016

(KAIR)--The expansion of the Atchison Family YMCA moves forward, with a groundbreaking for the $8 million project set for this week.

The ceremony is set to happen Thursday afternoon, at the Y, located at 321 Commercial Street.

According to the YMCA, the event is intended to to commemorate what the organization calls a “significant moment in the long history of our Atchison Y.”

Atchison Family YMCA Executive Director Loren Affield, in an interview with MSC News last year, said it's unique that the Atchison Y, which opened in 1872, "has changed and adapted to meet the community's needs over that course of a hundred plus years, and this [expansion project] is just another case where we are adapting and changing the Y to meet the needs of the community moving forward."

Donors, partners, and community members are all expected to be in attendance as the ground is broken, and a lunch is served.

Thursday's ceremony is planned to begin at noon.

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