Good morning everyone~
A lot of wonderful changes have happened at the Compadre Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley and I wanted to bring you all up to speed.
As of last week, all three of our old buildings were emptied out with most of the items being recycled to seven other Boys & Girls Clubs. The old facility is now gated up as our wonderful building team, Chasse, begins to demolish the three buildings to make room for our new entrance and parking lot.
In the meantime, the City of Chandler has once again been very generous to us by offering us space to continue our programs while this demolition takes place.
As of August 11, 2009, our youth program will be moved to the Chandler Community Center located at 125 E Commonwealth. Our youth hours are 2:30-7:00 pm and we provide transportation from five local schools----Humphrey, Bologna, Knox, Shumway and Sanborn.
Our teen program will begin at the Chandler Public Library (Downtown-22 South Delaware Street) in dedicated space specifically for our teens from 2pm-5pm. We'll be picking teens up at Chandler High School at 2:15pm daily to transport them to the Library.
Our teen program will continue at Willis Junior High School (located at 401 S McQueen Road) from 5pm-9pm each day. We will transport them from the Library to Willis at 5pm.
Our plan (and hope!) is to be in our brand new, 33,000 square foot, LEED Certified building before the fall break begins.
We plan to be in the facility for a month before our OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING so mark your calendars for Monday, November 16 with tours beginning at 4pm.
The new facility has:
- 2 gyms, one with a stage!
- A Community Room where HOA's, Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts, etc can use the facility as well as rentals for bridal showers, baby showers, etc.
- The worlds LARGEST Intel Computer Clubhouse with 45 computer stations, a state of the art recording studio and an amazing video editing room!
- An industrial kitchen where we'll be able to feed our members!
- A fitness center for our teens with free weights, treadmills, etc.
- A computer lab, gamesroom, art room and learning center for our youth!
- We'll have a wellness center with dedicated space for two doctor exam rooms and on dentist exam room!
- A focus on technology with over 80 brand new computers available for our members at all times!
As you can see, we're very excited about this new facility! Please pass this on to anyone else who might need to know where we are going to be over the next 8 weeks as well as anyone who might want to know what's going on with us!
If you are interested in supporting the club and purchasing a brick for our entryway, please visit http://buymybrick.com/ .
On behalf of the 2100 current members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley~Compadre Branch Chandler, thank you for your interest and continued support in our Club.
Mindy N. Elias
Branch Executive
Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley
Compadre Branch~Chandler
Palm Lane Branch~Chandler
480-899-8302
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