BOYS & GIRLS CLUB LAUNCHED AT OLD VALLEY FAIRGROUNDS FACILITY WILL PROVIDE RECREATION FOR TEENS, DAY CARE FOR TOTS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - A new Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. teen center opened Friday in a former Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. building that is part of a city plan to revamp the old fairgrounds into a park, a university center, homes and stores. The fairgrounds' former Watch and Watcher building, equipped with computers, arcade games You can also check the Killer List of Videogames. This is a list of arcade games organized alphabetically by name. It does not include computer or console games unless they were also released in video arcades. See Lists of video games for related lists. , a snack bar and space for dancing, will be open Fridays and Saturdays for teens, and during the week will be used as a day camp day-care center day-care center: see day nursery. for children as young as 6. ``In a recent survey of Boys & Girls Club alumni, 90 percent of them said Boys & Girls Club saved their lives,'' Jay Duke, the Antelope Valley executive director, said at Friday's dedication. ``We don't need to build more prisons. We need to build more Boys & Girls Clubs.'' The Whitney Mac Teen Center will be open for teenagers from 2 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. It will be open as a day camp from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. ``So many people are calling us. Because they work, they have no place to send their kids,'' said Laura Setzer, the club's director of development. The name ``Whitney Mac'' was made up. ``Whitney'' represents the girls involved with the club, and ``Mac'' represents boys. The initials, WM, represent Waste Management, which has pledged $12,000 a year for five years for the teen center. The Whitney Mac Center will be the fifth Antelope Valley site managed by the Boys & Girls Club. More than 1,500 children participate in programs by the club. Day camp will cost $75 a week for children who stay from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., including transportation to and from school. Fees are less for children who stay for fewer hours. Club officials hope to start the year-round day camp with 40 or 50 youngsters, but say the building can accommodate more. Club membership is $25 a year, but the fee is waived for youngsters whose families can't afford it. The city, which acquired the 70-acre fair property with the opening of the new fairgrounds west of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , is leasing the building to the Boys & Girls Club for $1 a year. ``It's one of the best things we've ever done as a city,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The Boys & Girls Club center will adjoin a park complex that city officials plan to build with 15 fields for youth softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' and baseball teams. The nearby Challenger Hall, also a part of the old fairgrounds, will be converted into classrooms and laboratories for California State University-Bakersfield's Antelope Valley courses. On the former fairgrounds' northwest corner, the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale is building a campus for its Phoenix High School, the district's last stop for expelled students. Sixteen acres are to be sold off to developers to build homes along Third Street East at the fairgrounds' northeastern corner. An additional 10 acres, located at the fairgrounds' southwest corner at Division Street and Avenue I, is designated for a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into that will be anchored by a grocery store and a drugstore. ``It's a perfect setup,'' Councilman Andy Visokey said of the teen center's location. For information about the day camp or Boys & Girls Club programs, call (661) 274-2582. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) The new Whitney Mac Teen Center, in the fairgrounds' former Watch and Watcher building, has tables for pool, as well as other games for kids. (2 -- color) The new Boys & Girls Club facility offers electronics for teenagers to use on weekends. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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