{"id":567483,"date":"2016-12-14T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567483"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:55:00","slug":"two-boys-and-girls-clubs-uniting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567483","title":{"rendered":"Two Boys and Girls Clubs Uniting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Boys-and-Girls-Club.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Boys-and-Girls-Club-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-567486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Boys-and-Girls-Club-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Boys-and-Girls-Club-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Boys-and-Girls-Club.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; Two youth organizations in East Texas have announced a merger. The Boys &#038; Girls Club of Gregg County will be merging into the Boys &#038; Girls Club of The Big Pines, which is based in Marshall. The union becomes effective with the start of the new year. The announcement was made Wednesday morning at a news conference  in Longview. The move will enable an expansion of school-based clubs in on campus sites in Longview, Pine Tree and Spring Hill school systems. The expanded locations are scheduled to open January 9.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As part of the merger, Bryan Partee is being named the new Executive Director of the BGC Longview club.  Partee has 12 years of experience as Executive Director for the Boys &#038; Girls Clubs of the Big Pines. The organization started as a single site serving 80 kids a day and has grown to 15 sites serving about 1,000 kids throughout East Texas serving Elysian Fields, Gladewater, Hallsville, Harleton, Hughes Springs, Jefferson, Marshall, Mount Pleasant, Ore City and Waskom.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; Two youth organizations in East Texas have announced a merger. The Boys &#038; Girls Club of Gregg County will be merging into the Boys &#038; Girls Club of The Big Pines, which is based in Marshall. The union becomes effective with the start of the new year. The announcement was made Wednesday morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Boys and Girls Clubs Uniting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":567486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:23:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567487,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567483\/revisions\/567487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/567486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}