The Prosser Boys & Girls Club is set to open Tuesday. The new club at 823 Park Ave. will initially only serve kids in grades 1-5 during the day after school.
The Prosser Boys & Girls Club is affiliated with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties. The organization has grown to include 11 sites in Finley, Kennewick and Pasco and serves more than 2,500 members annually.
ConAgra Foods Foundation has donated $15,000 to support "Healthy Habits" programs at the Prosser club.
Executive Director Ron McHenry said the donation, the largest received by the club so far, "will not only provide staffing for regular activities in nutrition and healthy living through our Healthy Habits initiative, but will allow us to integrate organic, locally grown fruits and vegetables into an expanded snack program."
The donation also will provide food for activities targeting teens in winter and spring.
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PROSSER -- A new aquatic center. After-school programs. Student participation in school board meetings. And a Boys & Girls Club that hosts 84 kids per day.
The wide spectrum of resources and programs to make this city kid friendly was recognized last week when Prosser was named one of the nation's 100 Best Communities for Young People by the America's Promise Alliance.
"My biggest challenge on this application was to fit everything in," Lisa Schmitt, the Prosser mother who nominated the city, told a crowd of city and school officials, youth advocates and about 680 pre-teens watching the news on an Internet broadcast inside the Housel Middle School gymnasium.
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PROSSER -- Prosser is close to being listed as one of America's top 100 communities for young people for 2011.
Charlie Bush, Prosser city administrator, leaked the news this week in a memo to the city council.
The award, which will be announced Wednesday, would put Prosser in a highly respected list created by America's Promise Alliance. The organization was founded by Colin and Alma Powell and Colin Powell is a Boys & Girls Club alum, Bush noted.
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