If you're looking for a charity to slide a few bucks to in the season of giving, you can't go wrong with the Boys and Girls Club of the Wausau Area.  The services they provide to the youth of our area, especially with the recent economic issues we've all been facing, are more valuable than ever.  Please read the letter below and donate.

Be Cool,

TS

www.bgclub.com Thank you! Last week you helped us raise $5,600 through the Midwest Communications radio-a-thon in support of our Great Futures Start Here campaign! Thank you!    If you didn't have a chance to participate you can still help by donating now. Through December 31 each new or increased gift will be matched $.50 for every dollar, up to $50,000. Each dollar raised helps the Club provide daily opportunities to kids in our community like Nicole.    Nicole's story Nicole turns to the Club because her family struggles daily. Her dad is a single parent and can't keep a job; her older brother and sister have been in and out of foster care, secure detention and have multiple arrests. By contrast, almost every day for the past four years, Nicole has come to the Club to do her school work, spend time having fun with friends, talk with Club staff about her future and eat a healthy meal. She has set goals for herself and worked consistently to achieve them so she can be the first in her family to go to college. She wants to become a police officer and have a family of her own. Without the Club in her life, it would be easy to follow the same path as her siblings. With the Club, Nicole has the support she needs to help her work toward a healthy and productive future.    You can help Your contribution can help the 250 -300 kids who attend our three Club sites daily $500 sponsors 25 Club memberships for 2013 $250 provides dinner for 75 kids for one night $100 supports homework help for 100 kids for one week  $50 provides safe, free after school transportation for 40 kids daily To include the Boys & Girls Club in your year-end giving you can donate online at bgclub.com or by mail to P.O. Box 2386, Wausau WI 54402-2386.   Thank you,    Brian Stezenski-Williams Executive Director Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area