The Boys & Girls Club of Fall River held a grand opening and ribbon cutting of the new Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Youth Building on November 2, 2005. The new addition to the club, located at 803 Bedford Street, houses a game room, learning center and the Rogers Teen Center. Funding for the expanded facility came from the Robert F. Stoico/First Fed Charitable Foundation and the Thomas A. Rodgers, Jr. Family Foundations, along with dozens of other donors. Click here to read the Fall River Herald News article describing the event. The Boys and Girls Club of Fall River is the first building erected in the United States specifically to be a Boys Club in 1897. It also operates the oldest continuously-running summer camp in the U.S.
 

(Top row,) Thomas Chew Memorial Boys and Girls Club Board Chairman John J. Feitelberg welcomes several hundred supporters and contributors including Louis "Skip" Freeman (left in top center photo). (Middle row, left) Mayor Edward M. Lambert, Jr. praises the work of the Board in raising the funds to provide a facility that benefits over 7,000 Fall River children annually while DeAndre Moreland, president of the Keystone Club, looks on. (Middle row, right) Executive Director Peter McCarthy is interviewed by Hector Gauthier of WSAR radio. (Bottom row) A student uses the new learning center on the lower floor, while others enjoy one of the many Kids Cafe meals prepared in the facility's new kitchen or play basketball in the new court adjacent to the building. Once fully open in the spring of 2006, the new facility will serve primarily teenaged members.