READING, Pa. – For Veronica Vang and Ana Del Rosario, this mural at the Olivet Clinton Street Club is something they helped create.<\/p>\n
“I liked when we painted it, it was really fun\u2026and I’m gonna say it’s very beautiful,” Vang said.<\/p>\n
It’s called Champions of Possibility, led by artist and Olivet Boys & Girls Club alumnus Theron Cook.<\/p>\n
“It was unreal because VOiCEup had partnered with East Penn Manufacturing, and we had a number of volunteers, I think around 40 or 50, who paired with our kids,\u201d said Kristen Orgera, development manager at Olivet Boys & Girls Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo these two generations were helping each other out, painting on the mural side by side,” Orgera added.<\/p>\n
Every color, every design, and every message started with ideas from the kids, and now they can see their work every single day.<\/p>\n
However, those ideas started months before the paint went on the wall. Before the murals\u2019 creation, kids were asked what leadership, community, and possibility mean to them.<\/p>\n
“I want them to think hope, inspiration, creativity, because that’s what we do here at the Olivet,” said Baba Waples, director of the Clinton Street Olivet.<\/p>\n
“We inspire our young members to be everything they could be,\u201d said Waples.<\/p>\n
And for the kids who painted it, it’s something they can proudly come back to years from now.<\/p>\n
“I would really be proud of myself because I helped Olivet make it more colorful,” Del Rosario said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – For Veronica Vang and Ana Del Rosario, this mural at the Olivet Clinton Street Club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[108024,734,103584,64237,48883,48804,128,130,129,108025,108082,4345],"class_list":["post-253344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-champions-of-possibility","tag-children","tag-community-mural","tag-east-penn-manufacturing","tag-olivet-boys-girls-club","tag-painting","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-theron-cook","tag-voiceup","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}