By BOBBIE MOORE

B&G Club Advisory board

The North Kitsap Boys and Girls Club has existed for several years at the Kingston Middle School, and has expanded to 50 kids.

The kids are enjoying cooking, art projects, and games that include ping-pong, pool, and bumper pool. They also get homework help. Lessons are being planned that include quilting, guitar-playing, and Native Horsemanship.

But the club is working hard to raise money to support its programs.

Here’s how fundraising stacks up. Suquamish tribe; Kiwanians; Nikki and Ross McCurdy of the Oak Table Café; and Shannon Harry along with the staff at American Marine Bank: You all rock.

The Greater Kingston Kiwanis Club has donated $7,000 to our Boys & Girls Club. This money is the foundation of our operations for the school year, and was raised by hard work selling berries, Mustang raffle tickets, and other fundraising efforts.

The McCurdys held a Spaghetti Feed Aug. 5, and dedicated the $1,184 raised to our Boys & Girls Club.

We were awarded $2,500 in Suquamish Tribe Appendix X funds to help us expand the program.

American Marine Bank has donated $350 for Boys & Girls Club scholarships.

We’ll need to raise about $10,000 more so that we can continue our successful operations in the second school term. Watch for a no-bake cookie fundraiser starting Nov. 11.

You provide your favorite holiday cookie recipe along with a check (made out to the NK Boys & Girls Club) that would buy the ingredients needed for the cookies.

Several recipes will be selected for the Boys & Girls Club kids to bake during December.

The Club will compile the recipes into our first Boys & Girls Club recipe booklet that can be sold for a nominal amount, based on the number of recipes submitted, also during December.

You can turn your recipes and donations in to any of the following during their open hours: The Kingston Chamber of Commerce, Kitsap Bank, or American Marine Bank. Contact Judy Osborn at (360) 297-4693 to help or with questions.

We still have a need for volunteers, especially energetic men of any age, to help with the more physically active games.

Call Bobbie Moore at (360) 297-2845 to volunteer.