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Anna Hudson Mayflower Boys and Girls club to have ribbon cutting
By MONICA HOOPER
LOG CABIN STAFF WRITER
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 The Mayflower Anna Hudson Boys and Girls Club will have its grand opening and ribbon cutting at 4 p.m. today to celebrate becoming a year-wide program.
Allan Hudson, board president for the organization for about six years, said that the organization has held summer programs in the past, but has been operating as an after-school program offering homework assistance for students ages 6-18 for about a month.
"We have about 100 kids," Hudson said, who take advantage of the after-school programs offered by the Mayflower Boys and Girls Club, which operates out of the Mayflower Elementary School Gym.
"Right now we're kind of in a limbo with our facility because of the renovations that they're doing at the elementary school. There are still four classes that are occupied with students. Once that transfers (to the club) we'll have the entire facility, which will focus on computer labs, arts and crafts, game rooms, social recreation, that kind of stuff," Mike Neuhofel, director of the Faulkner County Boys and Girls Club said.
Projects for the Boys and Girls Clubs include homework assistance during the school year. During the summer the club offers educational programs and field trips.
In addition, "we have a grant, which is for a program called Immersion Presents, which is a program by Dr. Robert Ballard who found the Titanic, and they have an online curriculum and activities that happen weekly. And then kids do essays and our top two candidates are actually qualified to go to Mystic, Conn., to Camp Hercules and that there again is to engage kids in science and math."
Neuhofel said, "We're currently running a lot of social recreation programs, physical fitness programs and homework assistance programs. We hope to fully implement all programs by summer of this year. We're just trying to locate that funding."
Currently the Mayflower Anna Hudson Boys and Girls Club works in collaboration with the Mayflower School District, Neuhofel said the club's longterm goal was to have a standalone facility.
Four years ago 9-year-old Anna Hudson was hit by a car and killed in Mayflower. Allan Hudson, her father, said that Anna was an active member of the Mayflower Boys and Girls Club. The club was renamed the Anna Hudson Mayflower Boys and Girls Club in her memory.
(Staff writer Monica Hooper can be reached by e-mail at monica.hooper@thecabin.net or by phone at 505-1266. Send us your news at www.thecabin.net/submit)
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