Organizers are hoping for another big year at this year’s “Evening of Heart and Hope” — the chief annual fundraiser for the Boys & Girls Clubs of West Central Missouri.
Last year’s event brought in a record $143,000 in much-needed supplemental funding for the organization, which provides afterschool and some morning programs for 1,465 members in 11 area schools.
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