Bins will be available for ball drop offs from Nov. –Dooley Elementary, 5075 Long Beach Blvd.īut because of the Thanksgiving holiday, schools will be closed through Nov. –Holmes Elementary, 5020 Barlin Ave., Lakewood. –Cleveland Elementary, 760 Hackett Ave., Lakewood. Here are all the LBUSD campuses accepting ball donations: The Let’s Play Ball drive will end on Dec. You also may Donate gift cards from stores to the clubs. –You also may order donations online via Amazon and other web retailers and have balls ssent directly to the B&G Clubs of Long Beach main office, 3635 Long Beach Blvd. Thanks to the participation of Big 5 Sporting Goods, you can buy balls at their locations at a 25 percent discount. –You may drop off new sports balls at various locations throughout the Greater Long Beach area. There are two ways you can help with this year’s ball drive: The goal this year is to set another record. Press-Telegram readers donated more than 2,000 balls in 2020, breaking the record from the year before. Rodriguez said the club-LBUSD program, like the club standalone program, consists of one hour of homework help and tutoring, one hour of recreation/sports with the other time filled with enrichment activities, like STEM, art, Project Learn and Healthy Habits.
Rodriguez said that having clubs on school campuses gives families assurances that their children are safe, taken care of and still learning “as opposed to walking home and sitting in front of a TV until their guardians come home after work.” Club members, wherever they are, spend a lot of time outside playing basketball, soccer, football, foursquare, volleyball and dodge ball.” “Our nine afterschool sites are just as much in need of sports equipment as our standalone sites. “This is great news for the ball drive,” said Don Rodriguez, CEO of the B&G Clubs of Long Beach. 4 at Monroe K-8 School, 4400 Ladoga Ave., in Lakewood. The district will also host a ball donation drive-thru event from 8 a.m. And, also for the time, LBUSD is participating in the program by offering bin collection sites at several of its schools where residents may drop off sports balls.