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Coaches ask Escambia commissioners to reopen Wedgwood Community Center for youth programs; county staff to follow up
Summary
Coaches and parents urged the board to reopen or staff Wedgwood Community Center so youth basketball, tutoring and mentorship programs can resume; commissioners asked neighborhood services to follow up and to investigate hiring/posting decisions.
Coaches and parents representing Pensacola Elite urged the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners on March 6 to reopen Wedgwood Community Center or create a part-time athletics position so their youth programs can resume.
"We take our at-risk youth in the community. We mentor them. We tutor them. We try to keep them out of the streets of Pensacola," said Sean Parker, who identified himself as representing Pensacola Elite. Parker and other…
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