The Boys & Girls Club's 2019 Youth of the Year, Soraia Hazard, a junior at Davies Career & Technical High School, was named the State Youth of the Year this week at the State YOY Dinner & Celebration. Soraia will be representing the State at the North East Regional Competition in New York City! Congratulations Soraia!

To learn more about Soraia, below are links to two articles, published after she was named the Club's Youth of the Year:

 

Come hear about the history of Pawtucket's Narragansett Park Race Track (1934-1978) at the Pawtucket Public Library on April 18 at 6:00 pm. 

Popularly known as "Gansett", the race track attracted crowds of 40,000 and more. By 1937, it was the most profitable race track in the country. Richard J. Ring, Deputy Executive Director for Collections and Interpretation at the Rhode Island Historical Society, will speak about the Rhode Island Historical Society's major recent acquisition of the surviving archive of approximately 20,000 negatives of photographs taken at Narragansett Park Race Track (1934-1978). 

For more information, contact programs@pawtucketlibrary.org or 401-725-3714.