Roslindale Community Center Starts Wish List

With a multi-million dollar renovation starting to show its age, the Roslindale Community Center has started a "wish list" of various items and creature features that will make the facility a bit brighter and more accommodating to those that use it.

The community center operates as a partnership between the City of Boston (Boston Center For Youth and Families - BCYF) which owns and operates the building, and a community-based non-profit in residence that operates a day care service and various in house programming. The non-profit acts as the voice of the Roslindale Community in the center's operation.

In March of this year torrential rains resulted in the community center building experiencing water damage from above (a roof leak) and from below, when storm drains in Roslindale Square backed up resulting in a 6-8 inch flood in the basement prompting a need to replace some furnishings.

The center is also in need of adding to its capacity to address youth and adult programming, and also to facilitate access to numerous community-based organizations that use the facility as a meeting place.

The new wish list page at their "Google Sites" web site will be periodically updated. Suggestions are always welcome and people wishing to offer donations of tangible goods or monetary offerings are welcome. All donations are facilitated through the Roslindale Comminity School Council, the in house non-profit, which is an accredited 501c3 charitable corporation. As such, donations may be tax deductible under certain circumstances.

The wish list page is at: http://sites.google.com/site/roslindalecc/wish-list

The main address is http://www.roslindalecc.org

The Roslindale Community Center also facilitates activities at the Flaherty Swimming Pool located at Healy Playground on Florence Street.

The Roslindale Community Center is also a member-participant in the "Commonwealth 5" charity matching service hosted by the Hearst Corporation at the web site of WCVB television (www.thebostonchannel.com)

- DMK