The Price Boys & Girls Club is a non-profit organization that provides a safe place for after-school care for school-aged children. Director, Quakee Tabone stopped by Castle Country Radio to talk about the new operating hours and the wonderful services offered to members of Boys & Girls Club.

“So with us being an after-school program we’re open Mondays 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm and then the rest of the week, Tuesdays through Fridays open 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm,” said Tabone. The change in hours has been both beneficial for its members as well as for their parents.

The organization prides itself in helping its members succeed academically so they host a program every day to help the students. “We do a program called Power Hour and its basically where we help them with their studying, we help them with homework. Right now, we have it split up into 20-minute segments. So, we do 20-minutes of reading or homework and then we do 20-mintues of what we call Power Pages where they get to practice a skill and then we do 20 minutes of fun, educational games. So it’s a lot of fun,” said Tabone. The goal of Power Hour is to increase academic success for its members.

There are other fun programs that are offered once homework is done. “We have educational or like academic success activities that are like your STEM, financial literacy programs, things like that. Then we have the arts which we do drama, we do music, we do fine arts and we have a healthy lifestyles category. It focuses on things like sports, getting out and playing, how to eat healthy, how to fix healthy snacks for yourself after school, things like that,” explained Tabone. They also have a program that highlights one’s character and citizenship.

There is an event that the Price Boys & Girls club is excited to host this year. Tabone shared a few details, “It’s going to be October 21. We’re opening it up to members of the community if you want to enter a trunk, you can give us a call to let us know, it’s $5.00 to sign-up. We’re going to do some fun contests best decorated, most creative, spookiest. Our Keystone members are actually going to judge that, so our teens are going to get involved.” If you would like to be a part of the October 21 Trunk or Treat, call the Price Boys & Girls Club at (435) 637-6066.