CLUB FOR KIDS TO OPEN NEW COMPUTER CENTER.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer BURBANK - The 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. of Burbank will be able to offer computer time to twice as many children as it can now with a new computer room opening this month, officials said Monday. ``A lot of the kids who come here after school don't have computers at home but still need to turn in typed reports and research material for class,'' said Tom Jamentz, president of the club board of directors. The board plans to use $90,000 of city block-grant funds for the portable classroom, which will be placed on the club grounds at 2244 N. Buena Vista St. There ultimately will be 15 new computers in the modular building Modular buildings are sectional prefabricated buildings that are manufactured in a plant, and delivered to the customer in one or more complete modular sections. Modular buildings are considerably different from mobile homes. , Jamentz said. The after-school program now has six Pentium computers, but they need repairs. Program coordinator Nor Oropez estimated that 80 percent to 90 percent of the club's 700 members, who are 7 to 17 years old, do not have Internet access See how to access the Internet. at home. Because five of the six old computers have recently crashed, there can be quite a wait to get online at the club. Joanna Joanna, in the Bible Joanna, in the New Testament. 1 Wife of Herod's steward Chuza. She was a follower of Jesus and was one who found the tomb empty. 2 Ancestor of St. Joseph. LeBrun, a fifth-grader at George Washington Elementary, said nearly every month she must turn in a book report that requires some Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the research. Last month, the 10-year-old Burbank girl said, she needed to write a paper on the summer Olympic games The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad are an international multi-sport event held every four years, organised by the International Olympic Committee. for her social studies class. ``When you're on the computers doing research, you only get like half an hour because other people want to do research, too,'' she said, pointing out the only monitor turned on. ``The others don't work.'' The club is asking people to donate money to help keep the technology center going. |
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