Healthy Kids Day Big Success at Santa Monica Family YMCA

Healthy Kids Day in Spring at the YMCA is an event I have worked on for years.

This year it was especially important to appeal to so many children who were affected by the Palisades Fires. Caity King at the Y helped welcome new organizations to participate – Ballet Folklorico, Troop 2 Boy Scouts, the Santa Monica librarians, as well as our popular participants – the Santa Monica Breakfast Club, Santa Monica Police and Fire Departments with their dogs, and Charles Claverie, a member of the Rotaract club who took photos and brought other members to help. Xavier from Cuttin’ Up! barber shop returned again to give free haircuts to the kids. Caity also set up a community resource distribution table for families who fled the Palisades Fires and needed supplies.

By Diane Margolin