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Heart of the Valley YMCA announces new president and CEO
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Heart of the Valley YMCA has announced Rob Gray as its next president and Chief Executive Officer. The YMCA said Gray will take over on August 11. The organization said Gray brings over 30 years of experience with the YMCA from various posts around the country. He most recently served as CEO of the Bath Area Family YMCA in Maine, but has also served in leadership positions in Maryland, Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky. Madison County BoE approves bid for construction of new middle school in Hazel Green 'Rob is a transformational leader with deep experience in mission-driven leadership andoperational excellence,' Board Chair of the Heart of the Valley YMCA Jared Sharp said. 'His commitment to collaboration, innovation, and community building makes him theideal person to lead our YMCA into its next chapter.' The YMCA said that while in Maine, Gray led the organization's post-COVID recovery and growth efforts and increased membership by 48 percent, and launched a $6 million capital campaign. 'I am deeply honored to join the Heart of the Valley YMCA, an organization with a stronglegacy of strengthening communities in North Alabama,' Gray said. 'Together with thestaff, volunteers, and partners, I look forward to advancing the Y's mission to put Christianprinciples into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.' The new CEO comes as Heart of the Valley YMCA has recently dealt with several issues. In August of 2024, the organization filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing mortgage debt from the Hogan YMCA in Madison. The bankruptcy led to the YMCA selling Camp Cha-La-Kee in Guntersville. The organization also announced the closure of its Downtown Huntsville location in April, saying that its lease with Huntsville Utilities expires on August 31. Heart of the Valley YMCA said that the closure has nothing to do with its bankruptcy and is entirely due to the expiration of the lease. The organization told News 19's Emily Moessner at the time that it was looking for other spaces downtown and is committed to continuing to serve the area. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
14-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Wimborne: How acidic Valentine's Day cards were sent to mock
An acidic collection of 19th Century Valentine's Day cards that were meant to mock their recipients are on of the so-called Vinegar Valentines cards are unsold stock from a Dorset shop that was open in Wimborne High Street between 1837 and cards were sometimes used to discourage the attention of would-be suitors through mockery and contempt and were sent Museum of East Dorset's curator said the collection of 350 cards would be the first thing staff would seek to save in the event of a fire. "Character assassination may be rife online nowadays but looking at these Vinegar Valentines, Victorians certainly also knew how to hit where it hurt," Rob Gray cards were popular from the 1840s after the Penny Post revolutionised the postal service and the volume of letters sent. In 1840, the first year of the Penny Post, the number of letters sent more than doubled and within 10 years that had doubled of the cards in the Wimborne museum's collection was taken from William Low's stationery and printing shop, where the museum is now collection, which also includes traditional - and more complimentary - Valentine's Day cards, were discovered by an ironmonger in 1904, who took over the old shop unit after it was boarded up by a previous occupier in were nearly pulped during World War Two as part of an effort to reuse paper but were successfully saved. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
