Oak View Branch to OPEN on October 1, 2012 (continued on Page 4)

Grants: We submitted an

application to Chase, a report to

Los Angeles Times Family

Fund, and an application to

Staples Foundation. We also

completed our regular monthly

reporting for our OJP grant and

our OCTA grant. We continue to

work on negotiating additional

new buses with OCTA. We

received new grants from the

Angels Foundation ($6,000 for

Twilight), Wells Fargo ($5,000

for Twilight), and Disney ($1,000

for ClubHouse Theatre) and

$7,500 from the Angels

Foundation in honor of CJ

Wilson’s Roberto Clemente

Award nomination.

2012 Great Futures Start Here

Annual Benefit: Invitations

were mailed and we are

contacting sponsors to get their

program ads, their guest lists,

and to encourage committed

sponsors to make their

payments. If you’d like to make

your payment online, visit

www.bgchv.com/greatfutures.

We have been working hard on

auction night materials like the

program book, signage, etc. We

are preparing to build hundreds

of auction baskets and boards.

This is a perfect time to make an

auction item donation, so if you

have any bottles of wine,

unused gift certificates or

something you’d like to “regift” to

the Club sitting at home, please

bring them in.

Marketing: We hired a new

graphic designer this month,

Michelle King. She has more

than 10 years of experience and

we are excited to have her as

part of our team. In addition to

the auction’s many design

needs, we have been working

on a several program side

marketing activities as well. We

distributed back to school flyers

to all 30 schools we serve. We

distributed Twilight flyers to all

the English Language Learner

students in targeted areas of

Fountain Valley and Huntington

Beach School Districts. We also

submitted our ad to the Fountain

Valley Pen and the Boys & Girls

Clubs in Orange County’s ad to

the Orange County Business

Journal. We sent out a

promotional email to more than

5,000 parents regarding our fall

programs. We sent out press

releases about our fall programs

and the opening of the Oak View

site. The Oak View press

release was picked up by

several local newspapers,

including the Orange County

Register and the Huntington

Beach Independent. Links to

the articles can be found

on our facebook page at

www.facebook.com/bgchv. We

also began participating in

Festival of Children at South

Coast Plaza. For the next two

weeks we have a booth near

Rainforest Café at the mall to

help promote the Club’s fall

programs and instructional

classes.

Oak View Activities: We

developed registration and

promotional materials for our

new Oak View Branch and

incorporated the Oak View

branch into some of our existing

pieces, like staff shirts. We sent

a preliminary proposal to the

Huntington Beach Police

Officers Association to ask them

to consider support of the Oak

Development & Special Events - How we raise the money!

Program for their 2013 golf

tournament. We also set up free

snacks for the children at the

Oak View Branch through

Second Harvest Food Bank.

They will make a weekly delivery

of healthy snack foods so that

the kids can have good food to

eat every afternoon. The

agreement allows for growth, so

there will always be afterschool

snacks for every child.

Other activities: The new Habit

Burger in Huntington Beach is

donating the proceeds of a pre-

opening lunch event to the Club.

We helped promote it by sending

an eblast, sharing information on

facebook and twitter, and

handing out flyers to our

members. We expect to get

about $1,000 in proceeds from

the event. We submitted our

application to the Toys for Tots

program so that we will have toys

for our holiday party. We also

s u b m i t t e d a r e p o r t t o

GlobalGiving, which is an online

charity donation portal that

features our capital campaign.

It is hard to believe that in only

4 days, Boys & Girls Clubs of

Huntington Valley was able to

transform a classroom, gym and

outdoor areas into kid-friendly

space. We started by replacing

the older carpet in the hallway

and classroom with new tile and

baseboards. We continued by

patching walls, scraping ceilings

and adding fresh paint to the

areas where we will be

delivering programs. We added

a donated flat screen TV, new

microwave, DVD player, printer/

copier and a 16 foot counter top

to hold the six brand new

laptops donated by Toshiba. A

major part of the transformation

included cleaning and sorting as

we sifted through boxes of

supplies. Five truck-loads to the

dump later, we were on track.

The Club was thrilled and

amazed to find the extensive

supplies hidden within the

cabinets. Everything from art

supplies to sports equipment,

much of it in new condition, was

discovered and put away. The

changes continued as we

cleaned the gym and added the

familiar “Boys Club BLUE” stripe

around the perimeter walls of

the gym. The change was

instant. Next, we then headed

outside to begin the clean-up of

the concrete areas. Much graffiti

removal followed by eight

hours of power washing made a

dent, but didn’t do what we

wanted, so a commercial hot

steam clean-up is scheduled for

next week.

With the support of the City of

HB, 4 recycled plastic picnic

tables were purchased for us to

assemble and secure creating a

new outside play space where

program participants can enjoy

activites and snacks. The club

also purchased and assembled

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Robert Mayer Child Development Preschool, HB

Summer has flown by at the

Kingston Branch and our

members were busy and

engaged with fun and engaging

club activities, field trips, and

summer programs. We had our

end of the Summer Water

Carnival which was a huge

success! Over 250 members

attended and enjoyed sliding on

a 16ft water slide AKA “The

Wave.” They also enjoyed our

giant slip & slide, water balloon

toss competition, duck, duck

splash, and so much more. It

was a fun-filled day that our

members really enjoyed with all

new friendships they made

during their summer at the Boys

& Girls Clubs.

Our Summer programs ended

with great accomplishments

from all members, but especially

our teens. The Orange County

Coastkeeper’s teamed up with

our teens to learn how flood

contro l channels , water

treatment plants, and nature

reserves were all connected.

Throughout the summer the

teens tested our local water

channels, visited our local water

treatment plant and finally took a

fieldtrip to the Bolsa Chica Wet

Lands. On the fieldtrip, they

teamed up with the Huntington

Beach Branch and had a beach

cleanup. Also, 5 of our teens

participated in the 3rd Annual

Taco Bell Graduate to Go

Business Camp. This camp was

an interactive workshop for our

teens that allowed them to

create a product for Taco Bell

and participate in a number of

activities designed to cover a

w i de r an ge o f ca r ee r

opportunities. Some of the

activities included: product

deve lopme n t , f i nan c ing ,

operations, and marketing.

As summer came to an end we

quickly prepared for our fall

programs. We are very

excited to see familiar faces

and new members join our

program. We look forward

to the start of all of our

excit ing school year

programs again for our

members to enjoy!

September was a great start to

a new school year, about 30 pre

-k children all left ready to enter

kindergarten! Open pre-k spots

were f i l led by chi ldren

graduating to the next age

a p p r o p r i a t e c l a s s r o o m .

Enrollment is continuous with

frequent inquires and tours. The

children have been adjusting to

their new classrooms and

teachers. Staff have been busy

documenting and observing

each child so that individual

needs can be added to lesson

plans starting in October.

September 28th we will hold our

annual “Parent Orientation

Night” which will give parents

the opportunity to sit down with

staff and go over classroom

expectations and goals for their

children. Children have been

working on art projects and self

portraits that will decorate the

room for this night. Pre-K

children have started on school

readiness by incorporating the

letter of the week, counting, and

name recognition.

Learning Center Child Development Preschool, FV The end of August and

beginning of September kept us

busy as we conducted tours and

enrolled new students at the

Learning Center. On August 29

we celebrated our first year

anniversary with an Ice Cream

Social event. It was well

attended and we were able to

say “Good-Bye” to our Pre-K

children. We started the new

school year on the good side

with four out of our six

classrooms at full capacity and

our Infant/Toddler classrooms

have a waiting list. We are in

the third week of September and

we are still conducting tours and

enrolling children. On Friday,

September 28, we will be having

our Open House and Parent

Orientation Night and we are

thrilled to be starting of the new

school year on the right side.

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Over the course of the summer

we had a wonderful opportunity to

partner with the Orange County

Coastkeepers. The O. C.

Coastkeepers is a non-profit

organization that works with local

organizations such as schools

and clubs like ours to educate our

local children on the local

watersheds and our impact on it.

The program consisted of three

classroom and three field trip

components. The field trips were

to a local flood control channel to

do water testing, a water

treatment plant to see how the

water is reclaimed, and finally we

went to the Bolsa Chica

Wetlands to see the wildlife and

how it depends on our local

watershed. All of the classroom

sessions were introductions to

the field trips which was dynamic

to gaining knowledge about this

program. This program was

specifically designated for our

teens and would

have been great

for our younger

children as well.

This was truly a

highlight for our

teens and has

left a lasting

impression on

the way they

look at their environment.

As always we finish our

summer off with a huge

celebration called our water

carnival. The carnival consists of

a forty-foot waterslide, dunk tank,

slippyslider, and snow cones for

everyone. Our children had an

absolute blast at the carnival and

it was the perfect culmination to a

great summer.

ClubHouse Academy, Fountain Valley September marked the end of

the summer sports seasons.

Our basketball finals were full of

excitement and great play.

These finals really demonstrated

the skills our kids developed

over the season. We had a

dramatic finish in our division 4

final that went into double

overtime, but even under all the

pressure the coaches and

p l a y e r s s h o w e d g r e a t

sportsmanship. Our soccer

season finished in just as

dramatic fashion. In division 2,

regular time and overtime was

not enough to decide a winner

and we had to go to penalty

kicks to decide our champion.

We will be holding our

evaluations at the start of

October and begin games

towards the end of October for

our fall season.

At the ClubHouse Academy

we began our fall class

schedule. We added many

theater classes with our new

Theat re Manager , Pau l

McGlinchy. These classes will

help introduce many of our

members to theatre as well as

help some of our seasoned

performers improve their skills.

The theatre program has

kicked off their production “Lady

Pirates of Captain Bree.” We will

continue shows the next two

weekends. Show times are

Fridays at 7:00, Saturdays at

2:00pm and 7:00pm and

S u n d a y s a t 2 : 0 0 p m .

On October 7th, after the

last performance all the

casts will come together

for a cast party to

celebrate their hard work

and great performances.

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Page 4 Oak View Branch to OPEN on October 1, 2012 (continued from Page 1) two rolling metal racks where

backpacks can be stored since

the kids come to us directly from

school. The final work will

happen in the next few months

as we observe needs and

contunue to make improvements

including the constructtion of a

shade structure to cover the

picnic tables. We have made

some significant changes and

the kids and community noticed!

Officially we take over on

October 1st. To make the

transition seamless we have had

staff present since last week.

They are meeting the kids and

talking to parents. Last week we

attended two open house events

at the adjacent Oak View

Elementary School and passed

out fliers about our program.

The first night was only for K-2

grade parents. The two staff

members present were very

overwhelmed by the intensity of

the interest. Gricel, Kingston’s

Unit Director was one of our

staff onsite. She happened to

bring with her a pad of paper to

take notes and/or write down

parent questions. One parent

listed their name and phone

number on the paper and

suddently 75 other parents

followed. In a short time, the

200+ fliers we brought to

distribute were gone. At the

second open house for grades

3rd to 5th, we were more

prepared. Everyone repeated,

“THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB IS

COMING TO OAK VIEW!”

It’s great to be wanted!

Our Classroom

Outside Area Gymnasium