A quahog in the hand is worth two in the sand. Photos courtesy: Kat Garofoli
Kids who would usually be at the Boys and Girls Club for the summer take part in a swimming lesson.
Students from the Wareham CARES summer program kayak.
Onset Bay Explorers take a ride with Onset Bay Center Program Manager Quentin Chafee.
The Onset Bay Center is buzzing this summer with a full slate of programming, including everything from sailing lessons to oyster growing to water safety for families.
And many of those programs are in collaboration with organizations around town that educate and care for kids: Wareham CARES, Wareham Schools’ accelerated summer academy program, the Christopher Donovan Day School, and Onset Kidz Block, the program set up in the wake of the Boys and Girl’s Club’s abrupt closure this spring.
Madison Czopek May 18, 2021
Wareham Tigers Cheer team members and their siblings pose with a large pile of leaves they helped rake at the Ethel E. Hammond School. Back row: Brianna Whitney, Lydia Kirkland, Chelsea Tiernan, Gloria Jorjakis, Amber Besse and Arabella Besse. Front: McKenna Besse and Raymond Tiernan. Photos by: Madison Czopek
Volunteers rake leaves and clear up debris.
Jared Chadwick of the Wareham Tigers uses a leaf blower during the Hammond School clean up.
The groups cleared out remnants of some supports from the garden. Chadwick said the “wind took its toll on it over time and just destroyed it.”
Was the Wareham Boys and Girls Club’s closing a ‘blessing in disguise?’
Wicked Local
WAREHAM – Was the Wareham Boys and Girls Club’s recent closing by the New Bedford parent organization “a blessing in disguise?”
Shayla Tavares, who is running the Club at the Bridge Church as the Onset Kidz Block at The Bridge, used the phrase in describing new plans to offer the services the Club offered in the past out of the Hammond School - and much more.
Currently, the Bridge Church has offered its space to keep the club going. The church initially agreed to provide the space for six weeks until school closes, and has since offered to extend that period if needed.