By Laura Portier-LaLumiere | Director of Development
With your help, Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley made history this spring by opening California’s first Boys & Girls Club on a college campus! After more than 10 long years of planning and fundraising, and 18 months of construction, our new Boys & Girls Club at Golden West College finally has its doors open, welcoming kids from north Huntington Beach and the surrounding communities. We couldn’t have done it without your support. THANK YOU!
At the new Kingston Technology Family Campus, the Club now offers a continuum of care that spans programming for children as young as six weeks old at our Robert Mayer Child Development Preschool to high school students at our new Harry & Jaynne Boand Gymnasium and Pacific Life Foundation Branch School Age Center. Generations of kids will get to grow up on a college campus. This unique location will inspire kids to go on to college after high school and will also help moms and dads go back to school, with care for their kids right on campus.
200 of our community’s leaders gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the new site. Boys & Girls Club mom and State Senator Janet Nguyen gave remarks to the crowd and said, “Every dollar and penny you have given to help with the Boys & Girls Club, and all of the staff and volunteers, you’re helping children now know that college is not out of reach for them and that life can be better and that the American Dream is possible.”
From all of us at the Boys & Girls Club, including the generations of kids and their families who will benefit from the new Club for years to come, thank you for every dollar and penny donated. And thank you for every minute you’ve spent volunteering or spreading the word about the Club to your friends. You are making a big difference to the kids in our community who need it the most!
By Laura Portier-LaLumiere | Director of Development
By Laura Portier-LaLumiere | Director of Development
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