Boys & Girls Clubs Celebrate New State-of-the-art
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade celebrated a historic groundbreaking ceremony for its new 11,000-sq.-ft. state-of-the-art Club in Miami Beach.The celebration was attended by Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, various Miami Beach commissioners, and Olga Guilarte, president of the Board of Directors of Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade. Representatives of Bank of America and Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund, two of the project’s donors, were also at the event. The new club was completed by June 2011, which features a teen center, state of the art computer lab, teaching kitchen for children, homework rooms, games rooms and a creative arts room, and serves approximately 400 children from the local area.