Please join us! 
Boys & Girls Clubs Celebration in Marysville
Monday, Sept. 15 – 12 p.m.
1010 Beach Ave., Marysville WA 98270

The City of Marysville and Boys & Girls Clubs of Snohomish County will celebrate the history of generosity and commitment to our youth that brought the Boys & Girls Clubs to Marysville. Now that the Boys & Girls Clubs has paid off the 15-year lease/purchase contract to the city for the Marysville branch building, the city will hand over the keys with a short ceremony and community open house.  

The late Dennis Kendall, former Mayor of Marysville, strongly believed the city needed a safe drop-in youth recreation center downtown. He spearheaded a fundraising campaign that enabled the city to purchase the building and property from the Marysville School District in 2009. The Washington State Legislature granted $487,000 toward the project, with other generous donations from Marysville Rotary, the Tulalip Cares Charitable Fund, and several individual donors. 

Among those generous donors was Carol Bjorg in honor of the late Gordy Bjorg, for whom the branch has been renamed, and the late Harv Jubie and his brother Larry Jubie, recognized on the gymnasium floor. 

History

The building opened in 1961, the product of hard work by Marysville Police Reserves who saw the need for a community center, raised the funds and built the building themselves. It was home to the Marysville YMCA for several years after that. The building site was home to Marysville’s first high school, which opened in 1907, and later housed both an elementary school and a middle school.