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Oswego Family YMCA Announces New Executive Hire

(Brent Finlay Brings 20 Years of YMCA Experience To The Oswego Community)

 

Oswego, IL…..Tom Beerntsen, President and CEO of the Heritage YMCA Group is pleased to announce the hiring of Brent Finlay as the full-time Executive Director for the Oswego Family YMCA. Brent comes to the YMCA with twenty years of professional career experience with many successful YMCAs. Finlay has directed YMCAs in Wisconsin, Illinois and North Carolina.

 

With an official start date of April 15th, Finlay will hit the ground running as he begins his new duties. "Brent is a leader with a deep commitment to advancing the key human service mission in the Oswego community. He is a competent, reliable professional that will work closely with the Oswego Family YMCA team already in place to bring the expanded YMCA experiences to many more kids and families in Oswego," said Tom Beerntsen, President and CEO, Heritage YMCA Group.

 

The Oswego Family YMCA also noted that effective September, 2009, they will have a new home in Oswego. School District #308 approved an agreement on April 6th that allows the Oswego Family YMCA to occupy over 22,000 square feet of space in the Old Traughber Junior High School which was also just renamed to Oswego 308 Center, in Oswego. The YMCA will occupy the former band and choir rooms, the new gymnasium, the locker room area as well as having access to the athletic fields on the south side of the building. For YMCA Members and Community Participants, this equates to a double court gym, teen center area, aerobics studio, space for exercise equipment and free weights, locker rooms and space for programming and offices. This represents about a 20% occupation of the Oswego 308 Center by the Oswego Family YMCA.

 

"Acquiring the new space is an example of a true partnership between the school district, the community and clearly will be of great benefit to our YMCA Members and Community Participants living in Oswego. We can now have a full YMCA program on the ground that will provide an expanded offering of quality programs and services to children and families. I am tremendously excited to have this opportunity to work with the Oswego community, and given the difficult economic times we all are facing, this couldn't be a better time to be connected with the good works of the YMCA," said Brent Finlay, Executive Director, Oswego Family YMCA.

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