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Article: NEWS SUMMARY; Boys & Girls Club proposed; Local leaders divided on need for another community center
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2006
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Racine A plan to bring a Boys & Girls Club to the city has
community leaders divided between launching another social service or
allocating more money to existing community centers.
Members of the community met last week to gauge public interest in
starting a Boys & Girls Club in Racine.
"If we are not doing things to save our youth, we are jeopardizing
our future," said Pastor Elliott K. Cohen, executive director of
Project New Life Ministries and a leader of the effort to bring a
Boys & Girls Club to Racine. "The Boys & Girls Club has a
very strong reputation of building character, competency, the arts
and education."
But others said Racine has enough community centers and ...