{"id":10857,"date":"2024-01-11T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:25:17","slug":"blue-gill-fishing-club-members-donate-to-boys-and-girls-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/blue-gill-fishing-club-members-donate-to-boys-and-girls-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Gill Fishing Club Members Donate to Boys and Girls Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10858 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4744.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As always, the generosity of the members of the Blue Gill Fishing Club has impacted yet another organization that works to better residents of the inner city.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, January 6, the Blue Gill Fishing Club donated $500 to the Toledo Boys and Girls Clubs and accepting on part of the Club was Billy Mann, director of Development for the Toledo area clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Blue Gill Fishing Club is about the inner city helping out the inner city and taking care of youth,\u201d said John Chapman, president of the club. \u201cWe don\u2019t want the youth entangled with drugs and gangs. We want to try and put them on the right path so they don\u2019t wind up in prison \u2013 we want to have them have an outlook in life that they can move forward. We don\u2019t want them penalized for the rest of their lives for a dumb thing they did early.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10859\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10859\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Billy-Mann-explains-the-workings-of-the-Boys-and-Girls-Clubs-as-Nate-Green-and-John-Chapman-look-on.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billy Mann explains the workings of the Boys and Girls Clubs as Nate Green and John Chapman look on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Boys and Girls Clubs provide services to kids from first grade to high school seniors including: after school programs, job training, athletic leagues, leadership skills, summer fishing opportunities, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The local clubs typically worked with around 6,000 kids before the pandemic but had to close doors for a while. However, over the course of the last several years, three new club facilities have opened and the number of kids serviced has climbed into the 4,000 range, noted Mann who is responsible for the clubs\u2019 fundraising activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [money] will be used,\u201d he said appreciatively to the members.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Gill Fishing Club was organized in 1992 by five community men, initially as a social club. Over the years, the Blue Gill has also evolved into a service club that raises funds for scholarships, to feed neighborhood youth and to assist community action organizations in their missions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff As always, the generosity of the members of the Blue Gill Fishing Club has impacted yet another organization that works to better residents of the inner city. On Saturday, January 6, the Blue Gill Fishing Club donated $500 to the Toledo Boys and Girls Clubs and accepting on part of the Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[211],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10860,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}