The Haines Borough’s new Community Youth Development (CYD) director Al Giddings said he wants to get away from the historically basketball-centric nature of the program and expand it to include a wider variety of activities.
Not that he has anything against basketball – Giddings fully supports CYD basketball and his wife, Lori, is a coach in the program – but in talking to youth around town and other members of the community, he realized there…