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RICHMOND, Ind. The crack of billiard balls mixed with quiet laughter as Boys & Girls Clubs members explored a new facility Thursday.
“This building is beautiful, said Derek White, executive director of Richmond Housing Authority. It’s going to have a lot of good years of use, and we’re looking forward to a long partnership.”
Housing Authority residents permitted $750,000 to be used to prepare the former Townsend Community Center building for the Boys & Girls Club. First Bank Richmond also committed $300,000 over five years, and the club received financial help from Reid Health, Pat and Paul Lingle, the Stamm Koechlein Foundation, the Urban Enterprise Association, the Wayne County Foundation and the Economic Growth Group, according to Bruce Daggy, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Wayne County.
Wayne County Boys & Girls Clubs to celebrate new Townsend unit
RICHMOND, Ind. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Wayne County is expanding its after-school programming with a new northside unit.
The First Bank Boys & Girls Club at the Rev. James M. Townsend Memorial Building will be celebrated with a ribbon-cutting and open house 4-6 p.m. May 27 at the center, 855 N. 12th St., according to a release. The First Bank Boys & Girls Club at the Rev. James M. Townsend Memorial Building will help further the Clubs mission of promoting academic success, healthy lifestyles and good character and citizenship to its members, said Garry Kleer, the president and CEO of First Bank Richmond and a Boys & Girls Clubs board member. First Bank s gift fosters our philosophy of Doing Great Things Together within out community.