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Boys and Girls Club dinner honors local club's progress.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Boys and Girls Club dinner honors local club's progress.(Neighbor)(Sleepy Hollow)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Barbara Ferguson

It was just 10 years ago that negotiations began between representatives of our community and the Boys and Girls Club of America about starting a Boys and Girls Club here in Dundee Township.

Ben Blake, who was police chief in Carpentersville, was familiar with the merits of the organization and spoke to Tom Mammoser of the Dundee Township Park District, who was running an Operation Outreach Program to provide athletic programs for youths from lower-income families.

Back then, both large and small cities were experiencing a drastic rise in gang problems. At a seminar held at Motorola in late 1994, a statistic was cited stating that Los Angeles and Chicago had half of all of...

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