The Mathews Family YMCA, in partnership with the Mathews Yacht Club and Mathews County Public Schools, provided every second-grade student at Mathews Elementary School instruction on Safety Around the Water.
The two-week program, free for all children, included two on-land instruction sessions and six in-water sessions.
“With the many miles of waterfront in the county, this instruction is a much-needed life skill,” said Mathews Family YMCA executive director Buzz Lambert. “It is a joy to see the children master some basic water skills. I want to thank these volunteers who jumped in the cooler waters to ensure our second graders could improve their aquatic skills over the past two weeks.”
Lambert thanked Mathews Yacht Club and YMCA volunteers Pat Daniels, Marymac Hoffman, Janice Phillips, Cynthia Montague, Maddie McCay, Sandy Ambrose, Leslie and Amber Jingluski, Anne Stevens, Suzanne Georgel and Jan Mohr, who assisted the YMCA of the Virginia Peninsulas aquatics staff with in-water inst...