Shown from left is WAG Founder Bruce Carter, WAG South Texas Area Representative Roselyn Garcia, Mario Cervantes and Eli Villareal of the Boys & Girls Club of San Benito, and Tommy Ramirez, Jr. of the Darrell Hester Juvenile Detention Center on Thursday, where it was announced that WAG had chosen to hold their 2011 Summer Youth Program Summit at the San Benito Boys and Girls Club and the Cameron Park Youth Center in Brownsville. (Photo by Jose Ramos)
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com
Representatives from WAG (We Are Graduating) visited the Darrell Hester Juvenile Detention Center in San Benito on Thursday to make some big announcements.
WAG has selected Cameron County for its 2011 Youth Summit, which will be held at the San Benito Boys and Girls Club, Cameron Park, as well as at six locations in Brownsville.
“WAG is a national, non-profit organization. Each year during the summer, through their funding sources, they select sites where they run a complete summer youth program,” said Tommy Ramirez. “Basically, we convinced them to adopt us for the summer program.”
Among those in attendance were WAG Founder Bruce Carter and Roselyn Garcia, the South Texas Area Representative.
“They bring in all the local staff to run the program, and they bring in academic activities, recreational activities, nutritional activities, they feed all the kids breakfast, lunch and supper,” Ramirez said. “They run the program Monday through Friday from 6:30 in the morning to 6:30 at night.”
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