Published on Thursday, November 20, 2008
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
Just a week after burglars broke into the Hawthorne Teen Center and stole thousands of dollars of equipment, eager high school students joined city officials Thursday as the new facility finally opened.
The center's original unveiling was delayed from Nov. 13 because someone stole eight new computers and a flat-screen TV two days before the scheduled ribbon-cutting.
Set up inside a large room with an outside patio at the Hawthorne Memorial Center, the center offers board and video games, a lounge and TV area, pool and pingpong tables, a computer lab, tutoring, field trips and monthly dances. It is the first time Hawthorne has had a teen center in about 15 years.
The meeting space was designed by the South Bay Workforce Investment Board, a nonprofit agency that provides job training services to at-risk young people and adults transitioning between careers. Most of the funding came to the nonprofit from federal grants for serving teens in need of job skills
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