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Volunteer coach makes most of opportunity
Faustino Ventura recalls receiving a free youth YMCA membership as a fourth grader through the Keeping Our Promise award. Nine years later his younger brother Alex, a Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center student, is named a Keeping Our Promise winner, crediting Faustino for inspiration as YMCA director Chad Knight notes the program aims to foster leadership and civic responsibility.
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Faustino Ventura
Garden City “Ay Ymca
Garden’ City’ Community College
YMCA
Chad (Knight
Faustino
Alex Ventura
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
USC 457
Alex
Chad Knight