{"id":8662,"date":"2025-05-07T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:12:55","slug":"kiwanis-club-of-liverpool-helps-light-up-new-scoreboard-at-south-queens-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/05\/07\/kiwanis-club-of-liverpool-helps-light-up-new-scoreboard-at-south-queens-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwanis Club of Liverpool helps light up new scoreboard at South Queens Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Schofield, president of the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool, Stacy Thorburn, principal of South Queens Middle School, and Ted Bulley of the Kiwanis Club at an announcement on Wednesday at the school. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sports teams at South Queens Middle School will be getting a new electronic scoreboard thanks to a donation from the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The service organization donated $7,000 toward the $17,000 piece of equipment that will hang in the gymnasium at the Grade 6-8 school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Principal Stacy Thorburn said the donation is “amazing”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo know that one of our organizations in Queens donated $7,000, it\u2019s just unheard of. Even through our fundraising, as thankful as we are to everyone, we weren\u2019t able to raise that much money, so a one-time donation of $7,000 is huge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, a scoreboard is projected onto one of the walls of the gym.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhich is great when technology\u2019s working, but it had its time,” Thorburn said. “And so we thought well, we don\u2019t have a scoreboard and we have lots of community basketball coming in, we have sports teams from other schools coming in, so we thought that would be a priority for right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thorburn said the whole community pitched in. A youth in the community donated what he made from giving basketball lessons, Liverpool Regional High School donated proceeds from their annual alumni basketball tournament, the school itself held an online auction and the school\u2019s advisory council contributed $2,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t have done it without the community and the parents from South Queens, which is amazing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Schofield, president of the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool, said usually the club gives up to $1,000 for specific projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInitially we were thinking a smaller amount. And one of our members said, we got extra money this year from running the canteen at Queens Place, let\u2019s go all in on the scoreboard, so that\u2019s what we did.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou like to see everyone working together for a common goal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The school held a short ceremony on Wednesday morning to unveil the Kiwanis contribution. Students, staff and Region of Queens Mayor Scott Christian were there, as well as Kiwanis Club members from Liverpool, Halifax and Kingston, Jamaica.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pam Rodney-White is governor of the eastern Canada and Caribbean district for Kiwanis International.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of her duties, she\u2019s touring Canada\u2019s six districts. And she was in town on Wednesday visiting the Liverpool chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said the Liverpool chapter\u2019s support for the scoreboard is an example of the kinds of contributions Kiwanis clubs make to help kids and communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic. I really want to congratulate the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool for the donation of the scoreboard. I\u2019m sure the students are going to be happy when they look up there and see that they are making some runs, not fouls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thorburn says she hopes to have the scoreboard installed over the summer in time for when students return in the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sports teams at South Queens Middle School will be getting a new electronic scoreboard thanks to a donation from the Kiwanis Club of Liverpool. The service organization donated $7,000 toward the $17,000 piece of equipment that will hang in the gymnasium at the Grade 6-8 school. Principal Stacy Thorburn said the donation is “amazing”. \u201cTo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3069,206,3071,3074,1573,39,3075,3072,3073,276,1626,3070],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-dave-schofield","tag-donation","tag-electronic-scoreboard","tag-kiwanis-club-international","tag-kiwanis-club-of-liverpool","tag-liverpool","tag-pam-rodney-white","tag-school-sports","tag-scoreboard","tag-south-queens-middle-school","tag-sports","tag-stacy-thorburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}