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Speaker 1: The Emily and John Brown Social Recreation Room now has

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Speaker 1: everything from pool tables to foosball tables, arcade games, the

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Speaker 1: Nintendo switches and to no.

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Speaker 2: Surprise, the kids are having a blast. I'll be everybody

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Speaker 2: in pool, so like I be him too. Don't lad

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Speaker 2: fool you.

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Speaker 3: And this is exactly what this room allows young people

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Speaker 3: to do, is to be the kids that they are.

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Speaker 1: Corey Manning is the executive director of the Yockey Boys

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Speaker 1: and Girls Club in Roxbury.

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Speaker 3: A lot of the young peoples in our communities are

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Speaker 3: growing up with difficult challenges. Some of them are having

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Speaker 3: to grow up a lot faster than other kids in

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Speaker 3: other communities because of the responsibilities. And here at the

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Speaker 3: Yokey Boys and Girls Club, what we do with this

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Speaker 3: space is we not only create a space where they

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Speaker 3: can be young, but we embrace them and encourage them

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Speaker 3: to be young in a responsible and responsible way.

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Speaker 1: Celtics star Jordan Walsh was also on hand playing the

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Speaker 1: kids in all the games.

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Speaker 4: Everybody trying to get a piece of it and try

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Speaker 4: to interact with me, to try to be me is

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Speaker 4: definitely the finest.

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Speaker 2: Part from Roxbury.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's news radio