{"id":9089,"date":"2015-02-03T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2015-02-03T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:10:11","slug":"lionville-y-turns-on-saturday-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9089","title":{"rendered":"Lionville Y turns on Saturday Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/YMCA-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1039684\" alt=\"YMCA-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/YMCA-logo.jpg\" \/><\/a>The Upper Main Line YMCA and Lionville Community Y have added a popular weekend program for youth from fourth through twelfth grades called Saturday Night Lights.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">The program \u201cturns on the lights\u201d on Saturday evenings throughout the school year from 7:30 to 10:00 pm for kids to swim, play and have fun. Special events, like Zumba, dance nights, pizza nights, extreme dodgeball, obstacle races and three-point basketball competitions are scheduled throughout the year. It is free for members and open to non-members for a nominal fee ($3-$6). Parental permission is required.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<!--more--><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u201cWe are pleased to be able to offer such an important program to the youth in our community,\u201d says Denise Day, CEO and President of YMCA of Greater Brandywine. \u201cOffering Saturday Night Lights at two additional locations in our association will provide even more kids with a safe, healthy and enjoyable place to go on a Saturday night.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">YMCA of Greater Brandywine now offers the program at six branches in Chester County: Brandywine YMCA, Coatesville; Jennersville YMCA, West Grove; Kennett Area YMCA, Kennett Square; Lionville Community YMCA, Exton; West Chester Area YMCA, West Chester; and Upper Main Line YMCA, Berwyn.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">All activities are supervised by trained Y staff and kids hang out in age-appropriate groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper Main Line YMCA and Lionville Community Y have added a popular weekend program for youth from fourth through twelfth grades called Saturday Night Lights. \u00a0 The program \u201cturns on the lights\u201d on Saturday evenings throughout the school year from 7:30 to 10:00 pm for kids to swim, play and have fun. Special events, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5367,2959],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-lionville","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}