And the persistency award goes to...
The Youth Dreamers, a group that started as a class at the Stadium School in 2001, has raised nearly $650,000 in the past seven years to further the dream of its members to have a safe, engaging place for youth to go after school. The original Youth Dreamers have grown up, with a new generation stepping in to continue the work. At last, the youth center is scheduled to open in the summer of 2009. The group got a step closer to that reality on Saturday, when 200 youth and volunteers from Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse got together to build a picket fence, landscape and make decorative stepping stones for the previously abandoned house being transformed in Waverly. Thanks to Kristina Berdan, the Youth Dreamers' dynamic adult adviser (currently an Open Society Institute fellow on leave from her teaching job at Stadium), for the photos she sent me.
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WOW,JWR SERVICE DAY WAS THE BEST I REALLY HAD FUN IT WAS AWESOME
Posted by: Khristina | October 15, 2008 10:42 AM
It was so fun,we planted flowers. it was totally wicked
Posted by: Ai'kerra | October 15, 2008 10:46 AM
JWR Day was awesome! We really did a lot to get closer to our dream YAYYYYYYYYY
Posted by: Khamari | October 15, 2008 10:48 AM
I thought this day was a great success I was there and it was hard work. All of the things the Youth Dreamers are doing is soooo awesome. GO YOUTH DREAMERS!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Danielle Parham | October 15, 2008 11:11 AM
JWR Day was such a success.I was there to help.Im currently a Youth Dreamer.We got alot done during the day.Getting dirty was my favorite party!Im totally excited and looking forward to the opening of the youth center.
Posted by: Jessica White | October 15, 2008 11:22 AM