Over 300 people attended the end-of-the-year PRIMEtime dinner and celebration on Wednesday at Bridgewater School. The party was for youth participants in the elementary PLUS program and the Middle School Youth Center, as well as their families. Volunteers from the Northfield Union of Youth/The Key and the Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH) program painted faces and led fun games for the young attendees. The amazingly talented youth from the local Aztec dancing troupe also performed.
The celebration was a fantastic way to cap off a great year of after school programming in Northfield! This school year, over 1,000 Northfield youth have participated in one of the after school programs in the PRIMEtime collaborative. PRIMEtime programming has been made possible by an “After School Community Learning Program” grant from the Minnesota Department of Education.
PLUS program administrators and staff served dinner to the youth and their families.
Partners in the PRIMEtime collaborative include the Key, the Middle School Youth Center, the PLUS program (at Bridgewater, Greenvale Park, and Sibley Elementary Schools), Reaching Our Goals, TORCH, the AmeriCorps Promise Fellow Program, the Connected Kids Mentoring Program, Project Friendship, and the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative.
