The Newark City Schools bus doors swing open in front of the door of the Louella Hodges Reese Boys & Girls Club of Newark.
Jacob Palmer, assistant director of the club, holds the door open as eager children pass through on Friday, Sept. 27. The first four to enter jump to tell him about their school days. Palmer tasks one of the kids with drawing a birthday cake on the whiteboard, representing their fifth anniversary, or as they tell the kids, “the club’s birthday.”
The evening prior, the Boys & Girls Club of Newark, Ohio celebrated this five-year anniversary with a thank-you to the donors, a speech from former Ohio State University and Indiana Pacers basketball player Clark Kellogg, and a short video showcasing a day at the club…