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Vienna Teen Center Fights Gang Violence

From the Vienna Municipal League comes this:

Since the late 1990s, Northern Virginia has experienced a dramatic increase in the violence, vandalism, drug use and other problems associated with youth gangs. According to a Fairfax County Gang Update presented at the 2004 VML conference, more than 80 gangs operate in the county with a total membership of at least 1,500. One of the more disturbing trends in these gangs is toward younger members, many of them in grades 6-8. The After School Program offered at the Town of Vienna’s Club Phoenix Teen Center provides a positive alternative to gang involvement for these younger students.

Does anyone care that this piece of writing is 100% made up nonsense? We are to believe that lily white Club Phoenix is an alternative for gang members? Well, maybe we are wrong here. Tell you what. Pass us some of that Club Phoenix Kool-Aid!


"HV, stop being so angry. Can't you just sit back and enjoy it? Club Phoenix is wonderful!"

Posted by Historic Vienna Posts on May 17, 2007 11:59 PM |

Comments

I've always been curious about this - how is this club doing? Do they get lots of participants? How did they get to have a room in the community center? Our local non-profit moms group has to pay to have anything at the community center.

Posted by: vienna mommy | May 19, 2007 08:03 AM

>>How did they get to have a room in the community center?

They are our children and, by our elected leadership, we try to provide for them. Their other option is to meet in the woods to suck quarts of Schiltz Malt Liquor through a fat slushy straw (all courtesy of 7-11) and smoke really good pot out of home made bongs. Take your pick. Do you know where your kids roam on weekend nights?

Posted by: Town Green | May 19, 2007 12:46 PM

Oh, come on! No 15-17 year old is hanging out at Club Phoenix. It's 12 year olds and they're not the ones smoking the good weed.

I highly doubt Vienna has changed that much - still just having drunk parties at whatever parent's house who dares to leave Vienna on any particular weekend.

Posted by: vienna mommy | May 19, 2007 07:45 PM

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