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KENNEWICK, WA – A teenager at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties Music & Arts Center will soon help shape teen programs across the country. The organization has selected 14-year-old Monyae Rizzuto of Kennewick to serve on the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s 2014 National Teen Advisory Council. He is […]

The Vancouver Housing Authority and Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Washington have agreed to share the cost of the new clubhouse, envisioned as 13,000 square feet near the entrance to the development, at Council Bluffs Way and Wichita Drive, just off Andresen Road. At a Jan. 23 meeting, VHA commissioners expect to approve spending […]

Nicholas Jefferson was eight years old when he first walked through the doors of the Al Davies Boys and Girls Club, home of the Tacoma Boxing Club, just as Olympic and world champions – Leo Randolph, Sugar Ray Seales and Johnny Bumphus, to drop a few names – had as kids before him. It’s an old […]

  This year our Boys & Girls Club did something that was out of the ordinary — and discovered something extraordinary as we found that giving is a gift itself! This season, we gave out gifts to Club teens who put their academics first and participate in programs. There were some heartfelt moments when the teens were told […]

Heather Powell, the new CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Whatcom County, does not lack for energy or enthusiasm. She rolled into Bellingham at 2 p.m. on Halloween after a drive of more than 2,000 miles from Wisconsin. At 4 p.m., she, husband Dan and 10-year-old daughter Gracia were joyfully trick-or-treating in Fairhaven. […]

The vacant 2.5 acres south of the homes Habitat for Humanity Tri-Cities is building in east Kennewick represent an opportunity. It’s where Rick Jansons, the nonprofit’s executive director, says Habitat plans to build more homes in the subdivision known as Garden Court, near South Jean Place and Fifth Avenue. It’s also where Jansons and Brian […]