Our Mission and Vision Our Mission is: TO EMPOWER ALL YOUNG PEOPLE TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. Our Vision is: To be the place in our community where all young people are welcome. To have all of our members advance each grade level on time and prepared for the next school year. To be a second home for our members where they get to participate [...]
In January Terri Arnold stepped down as the Club President, a position that she has held for the past 6 years, and during which the Club has gone from strength to strength under her leadership. Terri has sat on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club for over 15 years, and spent much of that time as a member of the Executive Committee. Terri was encouraged to join the Board by her boss and former Club President Brian Hogan. Brian appreciated the importance of involving his US Bank staff in the community and Terri's local knowledge, combined with being a mother herself, was the perfect fit for the Club.
The Club's FREE hot supper program returned this month and it came back in style. Finding a new Kitchen Manager was a long and exhaustive process, but the Club finally struck gold in Chef Dennis. Trained as a chef, Dennis is a Club parent and knows how to make restaurant quality food that the kids will love, and which hits all the USDA requirements for nutrition and quantity.
In an otherwise gloomy and COVID filled January, the hands on the sign of our building have shone out into the dark nights, and as I turn for home each evening have reminded me that the new building isn't just bricks and mortar - it is a community. Not only has it been built by the community and funded by the community, but it is a reflection of our community.