Boys & Girls Club finds home in Minden

After first opening at Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School in 2008, Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada is opening a clubhouse in Minden just in time for the 2024-25 school year.

Currently, the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada is located at two sites in the Carson Valley, at Pau-Wa-Lu and Minden Elementary School.

The new clubhouse will be the Valley’s first standalone club and will also include Minden’s first Smart Start Center, a new daycare and preschool program for ages 9 months to 5 years old.

The club will be named ‘The Wray Family Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada’ to pay homage to Lois Wray who donated the building at 990 Ironwood Drive and will serve a capacity of 350 kids from infants to teens, as well as opening up 25 new staff positions.

The clubhouse will include a library, a learning center, a game room, a STEM center to encourage math, science and engineering activities, and a teen center dedicated to 13-18 years with culinary activities, outdoor games and arts & crafts exclusively for their age group.

Construction will begin in May and the building will open for the After School program in August.

Club members attending the Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School and Minden Elementary school Boys & Girls sites will transfer over to the new clubhouse at the start of the 2024/2025 school year and any new members will be first come, first serve. K-12 club members must re-enroll for each school year.

The Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada opened in 1993 and has since expanded to three locations in Carson City, Minden and Gardnerville serving over 1,500 members. Earlier this year the Smart Start daycare was introduced to provide care for those 3 to 5 years old at the Carson City’s Russell Way Clubhouse, with new locations coming in late 2024 and early 2025. Visit www.bgcwn.org for more information.