Boys & Girls Club comes to town

Annette Beard

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Registration

5:30-7 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 12

Intermediate School gym

The Boys & Girls Club is coming to Pea Ridge with an after-school care program this month.

Thanks to a $90,000 grant from the United Way, the Boys & Girls Club will provide after school care for Pea Ridge students ages 6 to fifth-grade beginning Sept. 26, according to school superintendent Rick Neal.

"This is a one-year program," Neal said, explaining that the grant will fund the program for the 2016-2017 school year and no school funds will be used.

"It's going to take at least $100,000 to sustain this. Outside funding sources must be made available," Neal said."My concern is that we as a community

General News on 09/07/2016