New Balance opened its first U.S. global flagship store at Boston Landing in Brighton on June 24, 2016. To celebrate the company’s longtime commitment to its local community, Team NB athletes Brock Holt and Christian Vazquez of the Boston Red Sox joined youth from West End House Boys & Girls Club for a private event on June 22....
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On Tuesday, May 23rd, thirteen West End House young people learned about viruses and bacteria on their monthly visit to the Boston University Bioinformatics department. Youth ages 7 through 12 played microorganism-themed bingo and took home stuffed animals shaped like microorganisms such as staff infection, chicken pox, and the common cold.
On Friday, May 16th, 22 West End House youth attended the opening reception for the Museum of Fine Art’s Community Arts Initiative Artist Project, which is generously funded by the Linde Family Foundation. West End House has participated in this exciting initiative for 10 consecutive years. For this year’s project, our youth worked alongside...
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On Wednesday, May 11th, the West End House band, The West, packed their suitcases and boarded a plane to New Orleans. As if traveling to a cultural mecca with your best friends wasn’t exciting enough, Kevaughn, Carolina, Jonathan, and Jio had won a talent search to perform at the national Boys & Girls Clubs conference. As The West (accompanied by Music Clubhouse...
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Ian Jaffier, Jr., Rick Taranto, Emily Katz, Gracia Bonilla, and Rudy Ash ran and finished the 2016 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 18, 2016 as representatives of West End House. The team name, “Team Dawnn for Peace,” paid homage to West End House alumna Dawnn Jaffier who, before becoming an innocent victim of violence in 2014, was a...
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