"Teen Challenge" Needs Facebook Votes to Win Remodeling Money
From KOLO 8 Weather Now... The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a Wind Advisory. A wind advisory will be in effect from 8 AM until 11 PM on Thursday.
Save Email Print
Bookmark and Share
Updated: 9:44 PM Jun 8, 2011
"Teen Challenge" Needs Facebook Votes to Win Remodeling Money
Local program to help teen boys battling addiction needs Facebook votes to win $25,000 for remodeling.
Posted: 9:44 PM Jun 8, 2011
Reporter: Lauren Garber
Email Address: lauren.garber@kolotv.com
width:199 and height: 134 and picwidth: 199 and pciheight: 134
Font Size:

SPARKS, NV - Teen Challenge is a local non-profit working to reform the lives of at-risk teenage boys, and they need Facebook votes to win $25,000 to make some critical repairs to their building in Sparks.

"I ended up here because I was hanging out on the streets with bad people, the wrong crowd, and I was drinking a lot and using drugs, using hard drugs," said high school junior Aaron Lopez.

He credits Teen Challenge with turning his life around.

"It's just changed me. It's helping me a lot. It's helping me in school. I'm getting a lot of school done now. It's going to help me a lot when I get back to do my senior year," said Lopez.

His is just one of many success stories at Teen Challenge, where teen boys live, learn and work on who they are, and who they'll be when they finish the 12 to 18 month program.

"To be high all the time isn't the good thing to do. and you get to reflect on your life and realize that you weren't having all the fun you could've had," said another Teen Challenge participant, Javan Milbourn.

Teen Challenge has already made some improvements to their building with $10,000 from Home Depot, but there's still work to be done, especially to their aging roof.

"It's not leaking yet, but I don't know how long that'll stay," said Jered Rowe, the Director of Teen Challenge.

The bathroom needs work, too, because the walls are starting to rot out.

To help them out, visit The Home Depot Foundation's Facebook page . You can vote once per day until the end of June.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Anonymous on Jun 9, 2011 at 05:24 PM

What's facebook?
Posted by: Jenn on Jun 8, 2011 at 09:39 PM

Wish the link at the bottom of the page worked.

Posted by: Jered Location: Sparks on Jun 8, 2011 at 06:45 PM

As I was reading this just wanted to remind every one who wanted to vote, that liking this post will not count as a vote. You have to click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the story and vote actually through Facebook for Teen Challenge. Currently we are behind about 64 votes. So please vote every 24 hours until the end of June. Thank you so much Lauren and channel 8 for helping us get the word out about this contest!
KOLO First Alert Weather
KOLO Features
Northern Nevada Jobs
Find great local jobs here!
KOLO AP News
KOLO Blogs
Carter, Wolf Pack Deserve Our Support - 1 Comments Posted
I Already Miss My Friend JK - 1 Comments Posted
Joe Paterno Must Step Down - Post Your Comments!
No More "Whiteouts" - 1 Comments Posted
KUDOS to the Pack and Tyler Lantrip - Post Your Comments!
More Blogs >>>