Month: December 2021

Winter Sessions Provide Excellent Childcare During Holiday Break

Throughout the Central Coast, Club sites have been offering winter sessions for Club Members during the school break.  Parents and kids are benefiting from these high quality, immersive day long experiences so kids are engaged and active during their time off from school.   From holiday-themed activities, to science-based investigations, to physical activity, Clubs in Guadalupe,… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Irma Espinosa

Irma was chosen to be our staff of the month for November. Her passion for helping the members and parents is what makes her shine bright. Parents love her, they feel comfortable coming and talking to her about any concerns their child may be having at the club. Irma does an outstanding job with leading… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Shantal Castro

Shantal has been employed with the Boys & Girls Clubs for the past 3 years, 2 of those years at our McKenzie site.  Shantal will be leaving us soon to focus her attention on school in order to become a teacher.  Shantal will be missed, but we thank you for all your hard work and… Read more »

Holiday Fun at Our Clubs

Club Members Get Into the Holiday Spirit Up and Down the Central Coast The Holiday Spirit is alive and well at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast!  Thanks to the thoughtfulness of local community groups and donors, many of our Clubs were visited by Santa, Club members received presents and some lucky… Read more »

November 2021 Donors

Thank you to all of the donors for November!  We are grateful for your support. Mr. & Mrs. Tony Cossa Mr. Carlos Cortez Mr. Ernie Cuevas Mr. Nestor Frausto Mr. Rod Hallin Mrs. Dottie Lyons Ms. Brandi Garcia Ms. Margaret Larrabee Nadine Sullivan Pacific Imaging Management, LLC Patrick Chandler Rebecca McGuinness Richard Mason Roy and… Read more »

Youth Development Professional of the Month–Angela Ramirez

Angela has been at the Shandon site for about 4 months now. Despite her limited time at the club she has shown great perseverance and ability  to create the best experience for the members. She is always ready to learn and move forward on teaching new skills. Angela had been running Triple Play-Daily Challenges along… Read more »

Rotary Club Spends Holiday Afternoon at Railroad Club

Members of the Orcutt Rotary, led by long time Club donor and supporter Bob Ogden, came to the Railroad Club to share some holiday time with Club Kids.  With snacks and a sack full of gifts, the kids and adults enjoyed their time together.  Thanks to Rotary and Bob Ogden for always keeping our kids… Read more »

Anime Program Comes to Evans Park

Members of our Evans Park Club launched an Anime Program with the help of staff from the Santa Maria Public Library.  In this program, they are using their imaginations to dream up an anime character and title along with figuring out a creative superpower for their character.  Needless to say, this program is a blast… Read more »

Generous Donation of Bikes for Club Kids

Thanks to an amazing outpouring of commitment to giving back to the community, Waste Connections built and donated 60 bikes to our Clubs, along with hundreds of other bikes to other organizations serving youth.  A select group of Club Members at all of our Club sites were selected to recieve one of the bikes–which came… Read more »

Flamson Club Kids Give Back

Club kids at the Flamson site in Paso Robles, spent their time putting together hygiene kits for local people experiencing homelessness.  In partnership with CAPSLO Torchclub Members decided on this service opportunity during the season of giving.  CAPSLO will distribute the kits through their network of programs to help people in San Luis Obispo County…. Read more »

American Riviera Bank Kicks Off Giving Tuesday

We started GivingTuesday off in a BIG way with a very generous donation from American Riviera Bank! Steve Harding, Regional President and Heidi Cummings, VP shared their generosity with Alanna Andruszkiewicz, our Chief Philanthropy Officer at their Paso Robles Branch.  In lieu of a staff holiday party, employees of the Bank voted and chose Boys… Read more »

Quality Childcare Available During Winter Break

Thanks to our partnership with the Guadalupe School District we will offer all day programming at our Mary Buren Club Site during the entire Winter Break.  Grades TK through 8th grade in the Guadalupe School District will be served with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast’s high quality programming, including arts, sports, reading,… Read more »

RE/MAX Success in Templeton Supports Sports and Healthy Lifestyles at North SLO Clubs

RE/MAX Success, based in Templeton, just donated $1000.00 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast to help support our sports and healthy lifestyles programming.  After completing a local fundraiser that generated $42,000, RE/MAX Success considered our Clubs as one of the first organizations they would pass the donations to.  Rebecca Repetto and Lorelai… Read more »

Flamson Club Spreads Holiday Cheer

Club Members and Staff from the Flamson Club in Paso Robles, built an amazing float and were joyful participants in the City’s annual Holiday Parade of Lights.  The Club chose “Country Christmas Memories” as their float theme and all worked very hard to make it beautiful.  Alora McNulty, Club Director reports, “We had a lot… Read more »

Generous Gift Kicks off Season of Giving

 Administrators for the estate of Annabella Reinhold surprised Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast with a gift Ms. Reinhold was kind enough to bequeath to us.  Ms. Reinhold passed away in August in Arroyo Grande and listed the Boys & Girls Clubs as one of her beneficiaries.  After a long and interesting life,… Read more »

New Annual Fund Manager Joins Our Team

After an exhaustive search, significant sales experience and local connections make for a winning candidate The Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast is excited to announce the hiring of Daniel Rushing as the Annual Fund Manager for Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast.  In this role, Daniel will be responsible for… Read more »

BGCMCC Voted Best Place to Work

For the 2nd year in a row, Boys & Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast was voted “Best Place to Work” by the Pacific Business Times .  The print publication sends out surveys throughout San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties and crunches the numbers to determine workplace satisfaction among those surveyed.  With a… Read more »