It's extremely disheartening after being a ymca membership for my entire life and spending countless hours a week at the Port Angeles YMCA, making friends with some of the great locals who work out here, that our membership has ended this way.
It's absolutely disgusting that the YMCA organization would put such terrible women in charge of this facility. I realize there is a staffing shortage but it's sickening to think Nancy King & Cindy Wright have been in charge for so many years. No wonder their member numbers have severely plummeted every year. Nancy & Cindy have continued to take sides with many male member and especially elderly, long time members, who have repeatedly gawked at young underaged and married women. My husband has kindly called men out on several occasions and asked them to please stop. Most have apologized and stopped. Nancy and Cindy have called my husbands behavior "aggressive" and that these members have made complaints about him and they have these all documented. Although absolutely no instance from any member has ever been documented from the records they have printed out for us. So Nancy and Cindy are not only allowing, but also removing the member who have had several men and boys stare, make inappropriate comments, make humping motions from their facility. They tolerate harassment and sexualizing women. It makes me sick to my stomach that these young girls will continue to have men harass them at the Port Angeles YMCA and Nancy King and Cindy Wright will knowingly allow it because the girls don't come up to the front desk and complain themselves. Just a month ago, there was over 8 google reviews on the port angeles ymca regarding disgusting old men and even a past personal trainer (who no longer works there) who has had inappropriate behavior with minor girls. After my husband wrote a review, all the reviews regarding the matter were mysteriously removed. Cindy stated "I can't speak on that as there is huge chain of YMCA and people above us that view those." Two weeks ago, a well known local to PA who may have mental issues, stood inside the weight room threatening to take members lives if they continued to stare at him. This man has already been kicked out of the library in town but we have continued to see him at the Y. Today our unborn child was threatened along with our car which was parked out front of the ymca by another member.
Note that they have had their own equipment stolen and gas stolen from their work vehicles in the past. My husband even offered today to pay for new cameras to be installed in the entire facility to make sure these things aren't happening. Overall, this place would be a much healthier environment without Nancy and Cindy in the positions they are in. I see this gym flourishing if they were to remove the toxic and harmful individuals who they allow inside. I'm not upset about leaving this gym, as I refuse to have our money go into the pockets of employees that allow this but I do fear for those young girls and hope someone steps up to protect them. read more