Speaker lauds work of McGuffey Centre

YOUNGSTOWN — Many Mahoning Valley youngsters who have become productive citizens   were influenced and molded in part by being part of the McGuffey Centre during their younger years, a speaker said.

The city has reaped countless benefits during the center’s 87-year history, but the facility needs money, volunteers and community participation for its after-school and other programs.

Those were the main topics espoused in a presentation Barbara Sykes gave tonight as part of the Associated Neighborhood Centers’ annual meeting and dinner at the McGuffey Centre, 1649 Jacobs Road on Youngstown’s East Side.

“The center nurtures our neighborhoods, and we need to be sure not to take this center for granted,” said Sykes, president and chief executive officer of Ohio United Way.

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