{"id":450489,"date":"2026-09-02T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450489\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:56:09","slug":"youth-of-the-year-event-helps-support-boys-girls-clubs-northwest-san-diego-programs-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450489\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth of the Year event helps support Boys & Girls Clubs Northwest San Diego programs \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest San Diego hosted its annual Youth of the Year Celebration on Aug. 29 at the Del Mar Racetrack. This year\u2019s inspiring event, themed \u201cThe Future Is Bright, Wear White,\u201d invited guests to celebrate in all-white attire as \u201ca symbol of hope, possibility, and the bright futures of the extraordinary young people being honored,\u201d according to a news release.<\/p>\n

The trackside evening featured the announcement of Quinn Cannon as the 2026 Youth of the Year, as well as dinner, music, live and silent auctions.<\/p>\n

Funds raised during the Youth of the Year Celebration directly support Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest San Diego programs.<\/p>\n

Youth of the Year is the Boys & Girls Clubs of America\u2019s premier youth recognition program, honoring teens who exemplify leadership, academic excellence, service, and character. Through a competitive application and interview process, one outstanding club member is selected each year to represent the organization at the regional and state levels, the news release stated. For more information, visit bgcgreatertogether.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristin Tuck (Director of Development), Marineke Vandervort (CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest San Diego), Julia Brown-Farley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[310,311,4602,4603,6837,6838,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-450489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-del-mar-times","tag-del-mar-times-news","tag-encinitas-advocate","tag-encinitas-advocate-news","tag-rancho-santa-fe-review","tag-rancho-santa-fe-review-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}