Boys & Girls Club Member Awarded Dwight Brydie Scholarship
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme is proud to announce Valerie Valdez as the 2010 recipient of the Dwight Brydie Scholarship. The scholarship was presented on January 20, 2010 at the California Workforce Association’s 10th Annual Youth Conference in Long Beach.
The $1,000 scholarship is named in memory of longtime California [...]
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VC Star – Rio School District gets $6.4 million in federal grants
Federal grants were awarded to both the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, which runs after-school programs on Rio campuses, and the district. The money will help increase access to the Mixteco population and parental involvement in after-school activities.
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VC Star – NFL player becomes Boys & Girls Clubs spokesman
Keary Colbert hopes to inspire youths to pursue passions in life
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VC Star – Teaching Kids to ‘be great’
Long before I was a professional football player, I was learning the fundamentals of the game at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme. From the flag football games there to the fundamentals of good character and leadership, at the club, I learned to “Be Great,” to follow my dreams and [...]
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VC Star – Reach Out Through Mentoring
By Tim Blaylock
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ ” This year marks 42 years since our country last heard his compelling voice challenging and calling us to “make America what it ought to be.”
Over those years, we’ve seen extraordinary progress [...]
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme Kicks Off Be Great Campaign
(Oxnard, CA) – What do Denzel Washington, Martin Sheen, General Wesley Clark, Keary Colbert and Oxnard Chief of Police John Crombach have in common?
All five are products of the Boys & Girls Clubs. And the faces of our local alumni and community leaders – from when they were young members of the Club – [...]
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Be the difference: Help kids graduate
As we begin this fresh, new decade together, please take a moment to think about the difference you can make by helping to support young people. In doing so, you are creating a better community for generations to come.
The economic crisis been devastating, but it is not the greatest crisis we face. There is another [...]
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Online giving is growing in popularity
(Source: Ventura County Star)By Kathleen Wilson, Ventura County Star, Calif.
Dec. 31–With today forecast as the biggest day of the year for online giving, growing numbers of donors are beating the tax deadline while doing their bit for charity.
Contributors made 13.2 times more online gifts last Dec. 31 than the daily average for the rest of [...]
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VC Star – B&G clubs there for kids
A 2008 economic impact study of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme found that the arrest rate of youths who attend the Boys & Girls Club is 4 percent, one-third the rate of Ventura County youths as a whole. For incarcerated youths who participated in the Boys & Girls Club program at the Ventura County Juvenile Justice Center, the repeat crime rate is 9 percent, while the national rate is 60 percent.
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Hueneme Pilot – Fire, police units raise gloves, funds
The event, held at Oceanview Pavilion in Port Hueneme, raised about $20,000
for the organization by pitting the Ventura County Fire Department against the
Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in 11 matches billed as Guns vs. Hoses.
The firefighters, after falling behind early, rallied to win, 7 bouts to 4.
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