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By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
January 29, 2007
The Denver Broncos announced today they will contribute $50,000, matched by $50,000 from the Morton Publishing Company, to be paid over five years to the Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives program to assist that organization in working with at-risk youth in the metro area.
Broncos media information coordinator Patrick Smyth said the contribution was influenced by the unsolved Jan. 1 slaying of second-year cornerback Darrent Williams, and it is being called the Darrent Williams Memorial Grant.
Rev. Leon Kelly said that he is meeting in the next few days with Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle, plus a representative of the Denver Nuggets, and that both those teams have indicated an interest in helping Kelly's community-based non-profit.
"They see we’re working with 100 to 110 (future) Darrent Williamses every day, at our school, and trying to give them structure," Kelly said. The Broncos-Morton donation, he said, "hopefully will set the pace, for the Nuggets and the Rockies to step up. There are forces like the Broncos, who aren’t willing to let this die, and who are committed to keep this in the eyes of the public."
Kelly runs an after-school program at Wyatt-Edison Charter School in east Denver. The program lasts two hours each day, with the first hour devoted to study and the second given to team sports and other activities.
By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
January 29, 2007
The Denver Broncos announced today they will contribute $50,000, matched by $50,000 from the Morton Publishing Company, to be paid over five years to the Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives program to assist that organization in working with at-risk youth in the metro area.
Broncos media information coordinator Patrick Smyth said the contribution was influenced by the unsolved Jan. 1 slaying of second-year cornerback Darrent Williams, and it is being called the Darrent Williams Memorial Grant.
Rev. Leon Kelly said that he is meeting in the next few days with Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle, plus a representative of the Denver Nuggets, and that both those teams have indicated an interest in helping Kelly's community-based non-profit.
"They see we’re working with 100 to 110 (future) Darrent Williamses every day, at our school, and trying to give them structure," Kelly said. The Broncos-Morton donation, he said, "hopefully will set the pace, for the Nuggets and the Rockies to step up. There are forces like the Broncos, who aren’t willing to let this die, and who are committed to keep this in the eyes of the public."
Kelly runs an after-school program at Wyatt-Edison Charter School in east Denver. The program lasts two hours each day, with the first hour devoted to study and the second given to team sports and other activities.
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