Kids’ voice

What I like about the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows

Ilike the Boys and Girls Club because they are always offering new and fun activities. Donner Springs is where I go and yes it is small. The staff here always manages to help us out with anything that we need especially with homework. My favorite programs from The Boys and Girls Club is SFR (Sport, Fitness and Recreation) and Art. I like those two programs because it shows us what team work is also learning new facts from each other. I feel safe here with the rest of my friends because the staffs are always asking if we are okay or need anything that they’re here for us. If there is anything I need, I know I can always count on them. The Boys and Girls Club staff is my second family, I just love being with them. This is why I like the Boys & Girls Club.

Joaquin Palomino, Age 9, Donner Springs

Icome to the club after school, to do my homework and do other things. I enjoy being with other people and meeting other people. I enjoy being in the keystone club and the cool things we have here. I like how we have time to do our homework and then we have rest of the time to do things in the recreation room and work with music.

Skyler McAnany, Age 13, Pennington I am 10 years old. I have been coming to the Club for 5 years. My favorite thing here is art especially art that involves pastels and chalk.

Savannah Murray, Age 10, Nancy Gomes

Ihave been at the Club for about a year a half. My favorite thing to do at the Club is watch movies on fun Friday. I love when we do art projects and coloring stuff.

Jowan Romero, Age 6, Nancy Gomes

I’m 9 years old and I been at the Club for about 2 years. My favorite subject here is SFR. I think the Club us great and they help a lot of people.

Justin Robinson, Age 9, Nancy Gomes

My favorite thing about Rollan Melton Boys & Girls Club is the staff and are really nice and Tiffanee is my favorite staff. She is my favorite staff because she does two of my favorite activities: Girly Girl and science. In October for Girly Girl we raised money for breast cancer. We raised $216 for the Susan B. Breast Cancer Foundation. For science we did traveling water using colored cups, paper towels and water. That is why I love this site so much.

Abby, Age 9, Rollan Melton

My Boys & Girls Club at the FIS campus is a well developed Boys & Girls Club. This Club also has wonderful staff and LITs that care about what they do. My Club is very creative, the staff make the holidays light up with decorations, arts and crafts, and parties. They also take about half of their day making sure ours was great and safe. We also have very fun with games, outside activities and inside activities. I think the Boys & Girls Club is a good place to be. The Boys & Girls Club means a lot to lots of people including me.

Jordyn Martin, Fernley Intermediate

Ilove going to the Club at Hug because the staff make us feel at home. They help us with schoolwork and also encourage us to go for the things we love. I’m glad I joined the Club, and encourage everyone to join, even if it’s not at this site. Since I’ve been a member the trip that was most memorable was the Money Matters Program trip to San Francisco. I learned time management and was able to meet members and staff from other clubs. I’ve only had positive experiences at the club!

Melaia Pouli, Age 17, Hug Teen Center Hi my name is Natalie Jade Lacayo, I go to Project Solution. What I love about the Boys & Girls Club is that it helps my dad because he can’t get off of work to come pick us up so that really helped my dad. I like to come to Project Solution because the staff is nice and I see most of my friends and it is awesome! My favorite things to do at the Boys & Girls Club is play, do art, and hang out with my friends. Those things help me because art makes me want to be an artist, playing helps me get my energy out and helps me exercise.

Natalie Jade Lacayo, Age 9, Project Solution What I love about the Boys & Girls Club is that I get to spend time with friends and favorite staff’s like: Tracy, Jose, Luis, Michelle, Alex, Vicky, and many more. What I love about my site at Bernice Mathews is that they teach me to be polite and respectful to others.

My favorite program is National Fine Arts because we get to show our life and dreams in drawings. One of my other favorite things that I look forward to is when we get to sit down in assembly and the coordinator tells us to be GREAT and always use our Great Values but most importantly to be respectful and to teach the younger kids to have respect towards others. I’ve learned that people will respect you no matter what you look like and no matter what you draw. The reason I love the Boys & Girls club at my school is because I grew up here and every time my birthday passes I feel like the Club gets more and more into my life.

Jaiden Quicksey, Age 11, Bernice Mathews

Hi my name is Jack Nady and I go to the William N. Pennington Facility at the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows. What I love about the Club: I think I can speak for every one when I say that we love all the activities here and the staff. What I love about our site: It’s brand new and very clean and has a bunch of different games like, Air Hockey and the brand new computer lab.My favorite program: My favorite program is the technology program we have here. Buttonbass. com is my favorite website because it teaches us how to make different music.

Jack Nady, William N. Pennington Facility What I love about Boys and Girls Club is that they have different activities for the community and us to do like Basketball, Day for Kids and Kick off to summer. My site is the Fernley Teen Center I like that I get to hang out with my friends there and we do a lot of fun things. The staff is really nice to. My favorite program is the Claymation because it was fun and we got to create cool videos out of clay and Legos.

Hailey Cleven, Age 12, Fernley

Ilike the Boys & Girls Club because it is SO fun. It’s fun because we get to be with our friends and the staffs are so nice. We play really fun games at the quad (aka dodgeball). In the afternoon on Wednesdays sometimes we get to go to the park. On Fridays we get to watch a movie. We get to do our homework in the afternoon and we earn Club Cash doing hide in seek. And that is why Boys & Girls Club is the best.

Alex Logan, Rollan Melton

Icome to the club after school, to do my homework and do other things. I enjoy being with other people and meeting other people. I enjoy being in the keystone club and the cool things we have here. I like how we have time to do our homework and then we have rest of the time to do things in the recreation room and work with music.

Skyler McAnany, Age 13, Pennington

Ilove a lot of things about my club at Hug! There are always activities to do, the environment is especially welcoming and the staff is great. I love the fact that the staff is always supporting us in sports and our education. The Club always makes me feel wanted, safe and secure. My favorite program is Money Matters. It sounds boring, but we learned so much about how to save money, how to write checks, etc. We even got to go on a trip to San Francisco!

Malina Funaki, Age 17, Hug Teen Center

Ilike the Boys & Girls Club because it is SO fun. It’s fun because we get to be with our friends and the staffs are so nice. We play really fun games at the quad (aka dodgeball). In the afternoon on Wednesdays sometimes we get to go to the park. On Fridays we get to watch a movie. We get to do our homework in the afternoon and we earn Club Cash doing hide in seek. And that is why Boys & Girls Club is the best.

Alex Logan, Rollan Melton The boys and girls club helps me out by getting my homework done. I like to hang out with the staff and play around with my friend and new one to have special moments. I also like to enjoy talking to the staff when it’s a bad day but make it better by making me laugh and get me throw the day. The club is best play to hang out with your friends and the staff.

Zuma RomeroLinarez, Age 14, Pennington