Mayor’s Nights in Kansas City, Missouri, kicked off Saturday, June 7.
‘It kept us out of trouble’: Mayor’s Nights kick off in Kansas City
The initiative is a “defensive strategy” to allow teenagers to have fun in a safe space.
“These are the programs that helped myself and people like me get to the places that we are in life right now,” said Stuart Wright, head girls basketball coach at Grandview High School.
During the summer, he’s not coaching; he’s just supporting his students from the sidelines, watching them follow in his footsteps.
“It kept us out of trouble. It gave us things to do,” Wright said…