Programs are offered in various age divisions, including juniors, for ages 7 to 12, and seniors, ages 13 and up. The club also has snack bars. Just one boy wasn't keen on the club's expansion for the opposite sex. Girls talk too much. Boys and girls will have an impressively large and shiny club to join.
Fresh paint give rooms a crisp look, and the wooden floors glow.
The arts and crafts room, furnished with tables in primary colors, welcomes visitors with a large bulletin board. Marilyn Helterline, sociology professor at the State University College at Oneonta, cautioned that separating boys and girls without a clear purpose, such as contact sports where physical injury is possible, creates unnecessary distinction or segregation. Emphasizing differences is the first steps toward discrimination, she said. Staff and volunteers encourage boys, and now girls, too, to be individuals, to ask questions and to show them they can have a good time without drugs or hurting others. Valk said club staff has done a good job of making the addition of girls and the expansion a natural phenomenon without hints of gender distinctions.