Clubs

The exterior walls are up, the windows are roughed in and the shingles are going on the roof of the new Boys and Girls Club next to Park Orchard Elementary. The new club is still under construction, so it will be business as usual at the current location, 410 W. Third Ave., when school opens […]

The Boys and Girls Club will continue its emphasis on providing physical fitness opportunities for the youth of Coupeville by sponsoring a flag football league this fall. The four-week activity will run Sept. 18 to Oct. 11 with the help of volunteers from the Coupeville High School football team and coaching staff. “We will have a weekly […]

When Ron McHenry started at the Kennewick Boys & Girls Club in 2004, he quickly realized he had found his calling. The former high school band teacher was hired to establish a music and arts-based program from the ground up at that club. When the doors opened (just months after he began the project), just eight […]

SEATTLE — Seattle area kids and their families, many from the Boys & Girls Club of King County, tested their IRONMAN skills today at the UnitedHealthcare IRONKIDS Seattle Fun Run at Genesee Park in south Seattle. The kids, ages 3-15, had the opportunity to race on the same course as the IRONGIRLS athletes who will participate […]

What do Denzel Washington and Thurston County’s Terrance Gardenhigh have in common? Although they share an uncanny ability to entertain, that’s not it. And despite their rugged good looks, that isn’t it, either. What they share is something infinitely more important when it comes to determining future success: their common roots in the Boys and […]

They spent the week learning about space and rockets — and it paid off with a bang. Or, really, a blast. Kids from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties’ Music & Arts Center fashioned two-liter plastic bottles into sleek space craft, complete with cardboard wings held down by duct tape, and then launched […]