Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club

10/27/2026

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and our Club Kids are definitely taking the Think Pink campaign seriously. 🎀💗

Club Kids were eager to show their support this month by engaging in fundraising and awareness efforts this month, and we are super proud of them. Is 17 photos of our adorable Club Kids in head to toe pink too many? 🍥🩷👛🌸 Maybe to some... but if you ask us, the limit doesn't exist.

10/21/2026

Remember when we told you we had something realllllllllly special up our sleeve? We're so excited to finally share it with you! 💙

On October 7th, we had the chance to debut our new spotlight video: Growing Bright Futures at the Boys & Girls Club. ✨ If you give us 7 minutes, we'll give you a peek behind the curtain about what makes the Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club so special.

You can also watch the video on our YouTube channel by visiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elSBNBS9Tsw!

We are so thankful to our friend Amanda McKnight of AMack Productions for so generously donating her time and talent to put together this beautiful piece for us! 🫶🏽 https://amackproductions.com/

10/20/2026

Did you hear the news? ⁉ It's officially Giving Tree season!🌲

Every holiday season, the Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club distributes holiday gifts to hundreds of families in our community. 🎁 In 2025, we put gifts under the trees,🎄 menorahs,🕎 and kinaras🕯️of 619 children!

Thanks to donations from our community members (like you!) and the generosity of our local host sites, we are able to spread joy and magic to families in our community who need a little extra support this holiday season. 🩵

From mid-November to mid-December, we coordinate with local host sites to collect holiday presents that we distribute to families living below the poverty line in the Hudson Valley. It means the world to us to ensure that the holiday season is merry and bright for all children in our community. ✨

🛍️ Interested in receiving holiday gifts for your child(ren)? Please visit https://www.bgcorange.org/news-events/the-giving-tree.html to apply ➡️until Friday, November 6th.⬅️ Due to a high volume of requests, please note that applications are honored on a first-come, first-serve basis and we sadly cannot accommodate requests beyond the deadline of November 6th.

🪄 Wondering how you can help spread joy and magic to families in need? Please visit http://bit.ly/4nisuTl to send gifts from our Wishlist directly to our door.

10/16/2026

Did you know that it's Food Service Worker Appreciation Week? ❣️

Here at our Circleville + Pine Bush Programs, we are so lucky to have the best food service workers in Orange County. Our Club Kids just adore Miss Leticia and Miss Kim, the absolutely iconic duo that serves our Club Kids every day. 🫶🏽 We appreciate them this week for sure, but also every week! They are a constant for our Club Kids, and their years of friendship mean the world to us.

PS: Not only does Miss Leticia spend her school year with us, she also spends her summers with us at camp! All summer long, Miss Leticia is in Circleville Park while serving two meals a day to our campers. 💙

10/15/2026

We are super excited to share our 🍂September 🍂 Members of the Month!

We are thrilled to recognize Reid, Isabella, Ramsi, Abigail, Vera, and Veronica for being outstanding Club Kids! We'll keep it simple: this crew of kiddos embodies what The Club is all about. Each one of them is kind, inclusive, focused, helpful, and determined, and we are proud to have them as role models for their peers. 💙 We're so lucky to have them!

Our Members of the Month get some extra special perks, like planning activities for the group and being assigned structured roles that encourage their peers to look to them as leaders. 🫶🏼

Let's hear it for our amazing Members of the Month! 📣 We're so proud of you.

10/14/2026

We are so lucky to call the heroes at Garnet Health and Garnet Health Foundation our friends. It meant the world to us to have so many members of their team at Grown Here this year! ❣️

Garnet Health representatives recently attended the Boys and Girls Club of Town of Wallkill, Inc.’s annual Grown Here event.

This year’s honorees were Karen Fisher and our very own Garnet Health board member, Jay Anthony pictured left with Assemblywoman Paula Kay and CEO Garnet Health – Catskills Jerry Dunlavey.

The Boys and Girls Club serves youth from Northern Orange and Sullivan County. Garnet Health is proud to support this organization and its mission.

10/14/2026

First Federal Savings of Middletown girlies rise up! But on a serious note: all of us at The Club are so thankful to have the entire team as friends and supporters. 💜

First Federal Savings of Middletown proudly attended and sponsored the Town of Wallkill Boys & Girls Club's 11th Annual Grown Here fundraising dinner on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.

It was a great night filled with celebration and fundraising for the local children who participate in their programs, live music, and dining on locally sourced foods produced and grown in the Hudson Valley.

Pictured are: First Federal Savings of Middletown AVP Shateema Smith, CFO Jennifer Traverse, AVP Mary Ann Popek, and Board of Directors Margaret Smith and Bonnie Orr.

10/13/2026

We sure are going to miss our dear friend, Mr. Chris! 😭

Mr. Chris is a dedicated First Student Bus Driver right here in Pine Bush. 🚌 For the past four years, Mr. Chris has driven each and every one of our Club Kids who attend Edward J. Russell Elementary School in Pine Bush! 💙

We can't understate what an important piece of every Club Kid's Day Mr. Chris was. Not only was he one of the first friendly face's our kids saw every day, but he always made a point to check in to see how every kid who boarded his bus was doing that day. Mr. Chris took his job of keeping our Club Kids safe extremely seriously, and to say that they are going to miss him is an understatement... just ask the crew of kiddos who had tears in their eyes while breaking the news to our staff! 💔

Thank you for everything, Mr. Chris! Our Clubs will not forget you!

10/09/2026

We’re so lucky to have our Wallkill East Rotary friends in our corner! 💙💛 They show up for us year after year, and we feel grateful to have their support.