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What started as a city project is reaching across counties. Rochester features some great high school athletes, but nobody seems to notice outside of western New  York, making it tougher for local kids to get college scholarships. Enter Greg Hopkins and his program CTC, Changing The Community

It all started two years ago as a humble idea for Greg Hopkins…

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A plan to get police and kids together through sports is finally reality. The Police Activities League (PAL) was announced Thursday morning at the Public Safety Building. The first event will be a softball game scheduled for Saturday night at Frontier Field.

The PAL team has members from the Emerald Society, the Italian-American Law Enforcement Organization, and Rochester Area Minority Police, and it will play a team of area high school students.

Former Rochester Police Chief David Moore had hoped to launch PAL five years ago and is pleased Chief James Shepard followed through…

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LIFE SKILLS TRAINING 2011

Athletes will have an opportunity to display their skills and talents amongst college scouts to help themselves in the recruiting process.  There is also a Life Skills component that will help improve our youth’s ability to be SCHOLAR ATHLETES first. Resume writing, interview skills and goal setting plans and ideas.  All Athletes that are in the camp Must attend both sessions for the camp and give 110%

Bruce Sackman Johnson, John Wood, Quentin Gause, Calvin Bain

Congrats to all the signees and all staff of CTC. Keep up the good work. Bruce Johnson, John Wood, Calvin Bain, Quentin Gause and more signed their letters of intent. Also the Democrat and Chronicle was there to speak to them all, as well as to get their take on the program.