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March 2009 Parent Newsletter
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Impact 2012
Learn about how the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley is taking initiative to help provide resources and education to children who are faced with many crisis in their every day lives.
Read about it: Impact 2012: A Call to Action on Behalf of America's Kids
Youth Report to America: National Keystone Project
An Ounce of Prevention Read about the Boys & Girls Clubs' success in Newsweek!
BGCA Media Coverage:
It Only takes One- as seen in Parade Magazine from our spokesman Denzel Washington
BGCSV Press & News
Get Your Yard Ready for Summer and Help the Club
Get your yard ready for Summer!
With the impending increase in the water rates and the mandated water rationing, Conny Gustafsson of Scandia Landscaping, is offering a special deal through July 30th that will benefit you and the Boys & Girls Club. » read more...
Congratulations to Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to Sonoma Valley High School graduate Nick Bremner for receiving the Minigan Family Scholarship. Nick is a Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma Valley alumnus and will be attending CSU Chico in the fall.
Congratulations to Sonoma Valley High School graduates and Boys & Girls Club alumni Jacob Benning, Jaevonne Headley and William Doran who are recipients of the Stash Valdez Memorial Scholarship awards. All will be attending Santa Rosa Junior College in the fall. » read more...
Peterson Mechanical Tribute
Congratulations to Les Peterson of Peterson Mechanical, who received the 2008 Bay Area SMACNA (Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association) Leadership Award. Les designated the Boys & Girls Club as the beneficiary of the $10,000 tribute check. The money was used to underwrite a staff training in classroom behavior management. Congratulations to Les and thank you! » read more...
The Red Grape donates corkage fees to BGCSV
Throughout the month of June, the Red Grape will be donating the $10 corkage fee to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley. Bring in your favorite bottle of wine to enjoy with the delicious meal prepared by the Red Grape, and support the Club! » read more...
Club Gets New Stove Thanks to Rotary Club
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley, the Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma Valley has a brand new stove!
Pictured with Gary Edwards, President of Rotary, are Boys & Girls Club members and weekly cooking class participants Eliza, Vianny and Ashley. Each week, the Club provides cooking classes where the kids participate in the process of preparing, cooking and eating healthy meals and snacks, often times using ingredients from the Club's garden. Thanks to Rotary, the new stove makes it possible for more kids to learn how to prepare food and eat healthfully.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley (BGCSV) is the only multi-location youth facility offering afterschool education and development programs to over 2000 Sonoma Valley youth annually. BGCSV is entirely funded by individuals, local businesses, and private and public grants. Although associated with the national organization, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Club receives no direct funding from them. Our mission is to provide positive opportunities for youth to learn and succeed.
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BGCSV Hosts SVHS Teachers
08.17.09 The Boys & Girls Club hosted Sonoma Valley High School teachers for lunch and a tour on their first day back to work from summer break. Nearly 70 teachers were in attendance for the Club tour, information and lunch. The goal of the afternoon was to introduce the faculty to the Club's many programs available to the high school students so that they can encourage teens to attend the Club. So far it's working; we've seen a large increase of high school students attending the Club already, specifically to take advantage of the Intel Computer Clubhouse's video lab and music recording studio. » read more...
7th Annual Fashion in the Vineyards
The Seventh Annual Fashion in the Vineyards fashion show benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley will hit the runway on Thursday evening, the 17th of September . Glamorous models will strut their stuff on the elevated catwalk under the tent at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa. Fashion in the Vineyards is a wonderful event for both men and women.
As always, the models in the show are both professional and local Boys & Girls Club supporters. Helen Lyall is providing the latest elegant fashions for the female models while Gene Hiller of Sausalito will be providing their luxurious clothes for the men. The Boys & Girls Club member fashion show will feature clothing provided by Kohl’s Department Store. The models will be perfectly coifed and made up thanks to the team at Catalina’s Skin & Body, an Avenda Salon.
Guests at the event can expect to see the latest fashions while enjoying heavy hors d’oeuvre, food and wine provided by Arrowood Winery, Atmosphere and Gundlach Buncschu Winery. The event will also feature a silent and live auction as well as a fund a need to support the Club’s afterschool programs.
Fashion in the Vineyards at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn begins at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $125 each, this year runway seating only. To purchase tickets, call 707.938.8544 x 106 or go online at www.bgcsonoma.org and purchase through paypal.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley is the only multi- location youth facility offering afterschool education and development programs to over 2000 Sonoma Valley youth annually. Since 1962, the Boys & Girls Club has provided the critical means for parents who live and work in and around Sonoma Valley to ensure their children engage in meaningful and constructive activities during the critical after school hours of 2:00 – 7:00 p.m. and all day during the summer months and school holidays.
The Club serves approximately 40% of the total youth population in Sonoma (ages 6-18) with attendance of over 400 kids per day.
Our mission is to provide positive opportunities for youth to learn and succeed.
Visit us on the web at www.bgcsonoma.org.
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Keystone Club Attend Regional Conference
Press Release: Nov. 19, 2009
Boys & Girls Club’s Keystone Club members Attend Pacific Region Conference
Last weekend six teens from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley attended the Keystone Club Pacific Region Conference in San Mateo, hosted by Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula. The Club’s Keystone members attended sessions about Time Management, Goal Setting, Diversity, Spoken Word and participated in career-based fieldtrips to Google, Oracle, Apple, Ebay and Facebook. Sonoma Keystone members quickly came out of their shells and made friends with teens from Utah and Laguna Beach.
Keystone Clubs are chartered small group leadership development clubs for young people ages 14-18. Keystone members elect officers, choose their own activities and plan and implement community service projects.
"I have learned a great deal from Keystone. I have learned to plan events when people don't think that it's possible. I've learned to get along with people my age along with older people. I've learned that if I put my mind to things, I can accomplish anything, especially if I have support from others. I feel that I still have a lot to learn from this program as I continue to attend and set my mind to things." BGC Sonoma Keystone member
One of the biggest highlights of the conference was hearing Maria Reyes, one of the original Freedom Writers, speak about the challenges she faced growing up and how reading and writing, encouraged by an influential teacher, changed her life.
Boys & Girls Club Keystone members are currently planning a toy drive, food drive, an all night lock-in and several activities to take place at the Club and on the Sonoma Valley High School campus. The bar has been raised and a commitment has been made to truly “Be the Difference” in each of their lives and in their community.
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Girls on the Run
Congratulations to the members of Boys & Girls Club’s Girls on the Run (GOTR) team on completing their first 5k run/walk! » read more...
Boys & Girls Club Announces New Board Leadership
Larry Krieger, who recently began his two year term as Executive Board President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley, announced Joe Capriola as a new member of the Executive Board. » read more...
New Running Clubs Offered at the Club
The Boys & Girls Club is on the run….literally. Two new running Clubs at the Club have our members getting fit! » read more...
SiteSeeing : Making Neighborhoods Visible
The Boys & Girls Club is currently running a wonderful new program called SiteSeeing, Making Neighborhoods Visible, authored by Mary deLaittre. The environmental literacy Neighborhood Based Learning is an interdisciplinary curriculum teaching students how to see, read and think.. and more » read more...
Using Sun in the Valley of the Moon
It seemed like a bright idea at the time, despite the costs and large investment. For David Pier, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley, putting solar panels on the roof was a mission worth pursuing. » read more...
Boys & Girls Club Members Take on Graffiti Removal
Through collaboration with Sonoma County Sherriff’s Department and the City of
Sonoma Police Department, the Keystone Club members of the Boys & Girls Club
Springs Village Unit have been spending many of their summer afternoons removing
graffiti. more... » read more...
Club Members Attend Camp Mendocino
Over 180 campers from around the Bay Area attended the 10 day session. Club members participated in a wide variety of activities and for many it was their very first camping experience...more » read more...
Boys & Girls Clubs Athletics..Something for Everyone!
From 4 year old T-Ball to
over-30year old men’s basketball league, our program has it all! Utilizing our full
size gym and outdoor fields, the Athletics program is packed year round.
Nearly 750 Sonoma Valley kids participate in our instructional athletic leagues each
year...more » read more...
Club Awarded Grant from Sonoma Valley Fund
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley was awarded a Branch Out Grant in the amount of $2500 to conduct GIS Day 2009 from the Community Foundation of Sonoma County’s Sonoma Valley Fund...more
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Club Garden Project
When a community comes together to tackle a project, the results are often far beyond what was originally expected. Such is the case with a recent project to build a learning/working garden at the Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma Valley at the Maxwell Farms clubhouse...more » read more...
Numbers Don't Lie
“Numbers don’t lie.” This old adage is certainly true when considering those organizations that serve and support our youth...more » read more...
102nd Annual Boys & Girls Clubs of America National Conference
Boys & Girls Club alumnus and best-selling author of Good to Great Jim Collins delivered the keynote address on attaining superior performance at your organization...more » read more...
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley gets an upgrade!
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley, with the help of neighbors at Nelson Family of
Companies, is completing a series of upgrades to their computer systems and computer network...more » read more...
