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Help Us Turn Locker Rooms into Classrooms at the New Teen Center
Members from Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland County are pictured with the Club's Executive Director Josh Propst at the new thermometer sign dedicated to the $500,000 goal.

Members of the Boys & Girls Club gather around a thermometer showing progress toward reaching the $500,000 goal to have funds to renovate the former Shelby Middle School Gymnasium building turning the locker rooms into classrooms. As of January 1, 2015 the Club had $310,000 toward the goal. As of the ninth of February, they had moved the thermometer to $350,000 with donations from the Dover Foundation, the Paul and Margaret Potter Foundation,and an anonymous donor.
The Club is currently serving almost 100 children every day in the after school program. As Joshua Propst, Executive Director observed, "With the Teen Center in operation, we would be able to serve students from the middle and high schools with the same type of programming we do every day for the children in the elementary and intermediate grades." Shown checking the progress to the new center are left to right: Michael Toms, 14, Shelby Middle School; Amir Hayes, 11, Shelby Intermediate School; India Briscoe, 10, Jefferson Elementary School; Essence Ervin, 14, Shelby High School; and Joshua Propst, Executive Director.
If you want to help to raise the heat and contribute to the Mabel Hamrick Whisnant Teen Center, contact the Boys & Girls Club at 704 471 CLUB (2582) or e-mail Propst at joshp@bgcclevelandcounty.org


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