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Barbara Flaherty, president of the board of the Boys & Girls Club welcomes the crowd to the groundbreaking for an expansion of the BIllerica club yesterday. From left, significant donors Jerry O'Connor of O'Connor Hardware and Fran McCarthy of Kasher Corp., Robert Skelley, chairman of the board, Stoneham Bank, State Rep. Bill Greene, Ken Goode, vice president for business development at MassDevelopment, Donald Queenin, executive vice president, Northern Bank and Trust, Brian Bullock, senior vice president, Enterprise Bank, Town Manager Rocco Longo, Selectmen Chairman Michael Rosa, Architect Holly Darzen of Linea 5, Inc., board member Mary Ellen O'Dowd of Cabot Corp., and club Executive Director Roy Nagy.
Ground broken for $3.5M Billerica club expansion
BILLERICA -Don Ryan stood in the dirt where the new gymnasium will soon rise. The cement truck was on its way. He pulled a letter out of his pocket dated June 27, 1973. It was the first pledge letter drafted for the then newly incorporated Boys and Girls Club of Greater Billerica. It requests $10 per month over five years from contributors. Yesterday, he watched club and town officials, bank representatives, major contributors Jerry O'Connor and Fran McCarthy, and designers don yellow hard hats and lift small piles of dirt from the trench onto shiny shovels. The ceremony broke ground on a $3.5 million addition and renovation to the club's Campbell Road building. "It is just terrific," Ryan said. The club's three-year-old capital campaign reached its $1.2 million goal in September, green-lighting the project that will bring a new, 7,000-square-foot gymnasium and an entirely new building interior, and will allow the club to scrap two portable trailers brought to the site in recent years to accommodate growth. Additionally, there will be new locker rooms, a teen center, technology center, kindergarten room and activity space for the club's 3,600 members. The board will continue fundraising to reach $1.5 million, and then borrow the remainder, working with MassDevelopment and the Enterprise, Northern and Stoneham banks. "We have waited a long time for this day and it is finally here," said Barbara Flaherty, president of the board of directors, as she thanked everyone in the community who chipped in and supported the club. It's a day many thought would never arrive -- a new life for the building that opened its doors in 1975 and was nearly forced to close them shortly thereafter. "We were so far in arrears on our mortgage that we almost lost it," recalled Fred Ciampa, treasurer of the board of directors. "And the national Boys and Girls Club organization wanted to close our club and merge with Lowell." Ciampa added that Ryan, who was a state bank examiner, was able to save the club. "The banks eventually absorbed the late charges," Ryan said. "They listened to him," Ciampa said. Then, in 1988, the first capital campaign spearheaded by the board fell apart with the crash of the real-estate market. "This is the happiest day for everyone in the community, especially the staff," said Julia Greene, the board's second vice president. "Now we can look forward to the ribbon-cutting."
(Story Courtesy of the Lowell Sun)
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The Boys & Girls Club is more than a place, it is a movement to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
By reaching children at an early age and providing positive activities and encouragement, our Club provides a compelling alternative to youth crime, gang membership, drugs, and other negative influences that effect our youth today.
Our Club programs promote the development of young people by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, influence and belonging. When this strategy is fully implemented, self-esteem is enhanced and an enviornment is created which helps our members acheive their full potential. Additionally, our members learn to:
· Enjoy their interests
· Nurture their talents
· Dissolve their prejudices
· Express their personality
· Develop friendships
· Build self esteem
· Contribute to society
· Achieve personal success
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