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The Clemmons Courier
- The leader of the Triad YMCA, Curt Hazelbaker, is looking at Lewisville as the location for a new YMCA, and Mayor Dan Pugh would not mind it coming to town.
Hazelbaker has been president and CEO since January, and before that for six months he was the interim director. He has been in Winston Salem for five years.
“We are gearing up for the capital campaign,” he said. “We officially kick off in January of 2009.We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now as far as identifying sites for a YMCA for the campaign. So we have been looking at the northwest portion of the county, Lewisville-Pfafftown, somewhere in there, and also in the southeast part of the county.”There’s the southern part of Kernersville and Greensboro, so there are a lot of different options we have. I’ve talked to Mayor Pugh a number of times.
“I think he is very interested in having a YMCA come to Lewisville. We are interested in getting to Lewisville at some part, and if this makes sense to us, we will certainly look to do that. We are looking at a bunch of different options at this point.
“It’s behind the scenes at this point. We are recruiting the leadership. We have a little bit of work going on in Clemmons, but we really haven’t started fund raising yet. We have done a feasibility study, and it came back positive. The people we interviewed feel good about the plan and feel good about the YMCA.
“We think we would raise about $6 million. It won’t be easy, but we think it can be done. We are still planning right now. We haven’t actually finished our fund raising plans right yet.”