Rotary makes donation to Kitsap Community Resources
Published 11:30 am Monday, November 3, 2014
The Bremerton Rotary Foundation has donated $30,000 to Kitsap Community Resources toward its effort to build a new Early Learning Center at West Hills Elementary STEM Academy, part of the Bremerton School District.
The school is organized around STEM, which stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.” According to Larry Eyer, executive director of Kitsap Community Resources, “the early learning classes will be used primarily for Head Start and ECEAP pre-school for children from low-income families.
The longtime portable classroom at the school previously used for this purpose has necessarily had to be torn down. KCR coordinates the pre-school curriculum and transition to kindergarten with Bremerton Schools.
”Bremerton Rotary Club raises money for community service from various fund raising events, and from its Blackberry Festival held on the Bremerton waterfront each Labor Day weekend. “We are very happy that the success of the Blackberry Festival has enabled us to contribute these funds to the Early Learning Center and to our many other Bremerton projects, including scholarship and mentoring support for Bremerton High School students,” said Chris Henrickson, club president.
Bremerton Rotary Club meets at noon every Monday at the Kitsap Conference Center.
