KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The Lakeside School for Children, which is a very special place for very troubled kids has just snipped the ribbon on what they are calling their new Health and Wellness Center.
It was built mainly with donations from some of Kalamazoo’s wealthier families who have been benefactors for the Lakeside Facility off Oakland Drive for generations now.
The facility is a full sized Gymnasium with retractable basketball hoops and a retractable wrestling mat that can also be a volleyball court or just a place to gather. It has a scoreboard and bleechers for 250. The gym they have been using was built in 1963 and offered few of those amenities.
The Lakeside facility is a residential school that takes in children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect, and provides them with counseling and schooling, taking in children from all over the country.
