Keeping active. The Boys & Girls Club of Erie has a brand-new place to shoot some hoops for area children.<\/p>\n
The club celebrated its new basketball court Friday morning with some help from the PNC Foundation. Club members got their first look at the new court during the event.<\/p>\n
Leaders from the club and PNC marked the occasion with an official ribbon cutting before opening the court up to the kids.<\/p>\n
The new space gives children a safe place to get moving, hang out with friends and build some teamwork along the way. It also gives them another place to connect with the staff and mentors they see at the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery kid who comes here passes through this space, whether it’s at an assembly like this or an activity or a structured program or some kind of special event. So this is kind of the grand central station of this place,\u201d said Al Messina, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Erie.<\/p>\n
PNC representatives say supporting the communities where employees live and work is an important part of the company’s mission, and investing in local youth is one way they do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupporting the communities where employees live and where they work is a core PNC value, and there’s no better way for us to demonstrate how we live that value than by supporting the young people in our region,\u201d said Jim Stevenson, Regional President of PNC Bank Northwest Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keeping active. The Boys & Girls Club of Erie has a brand-new place to shoot some hoops for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85663,99914,2347,136,138,137,49210,6732],"class_list":["post-313004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-basketball-court","tag-boys-girls-club","tag-community-support","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pnc-foundation","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313004","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=313004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}