The Columbia School Board recently reached an agreement granting the local Boys and Girls Club access to Field Elementary School. The club is working to expand their facilities so they can serve a larger number of students, and moving to Field will be a step in that direction.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon at the club’s current location shooting video interviews. Every afternoon and evening during the week, the building is full of staff, volunteers and students ranging from kindergarten to high school. Kids run around, laughing and playing, and volunteers and staff who really care are right there with them.
Even though organizations like the Boys and Girls Club don’t actually belong to the education system in Columbia, they provide the town’s students with guidance, advice, friendship, academic help, entertainment … the list goes on and on. The club gives younger kids a wide variety of role models and allows older students the chance to become those role models.
The School Board’s decision to help the club shows the dedication this city has to its students. For updates on the Boys and Girls Club, as well as video interviews with staff, volunteers and students, keep checking ColumbiaMissourian.com.
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