TRELAWNY, Jamaica— Members of the Harmony Community Club in Bounty Hall, Trelawny staged a back-to- school treat and fun day for children in the community last week.

Scores of children were gifted school items, and were provided with refreshments and rides throughout the day.

The club members, which included a number of people within the Diaspora, staged the fun day at the nearby community centre which they were instrumental in renovating recently.  The playing field has also been spruced up by the membership of the club.

An executive member of Harmony Community Club, Linton Brady said the back-to-school treat and fun day was the club’s first project.

“We are going to try to do it as an annual project. Next year we are trying to put on a ball. But the general thing is to stage events to generate funds to help the community [and] to help the children,” Brady said.

“And we are trying to control the community centre and the playing field so that we plan in the future to establish stands, put in lights and so on. It is total development so this is just the start of greater things to come,” he added.

He said the ultimate mission is to return the Bounty Hall-based club to its former glory days when the community produced national representatives.

He added that plans are well advanced to establish a football and cricket academy in the community.

“We used to produce a number of national players but we haven’t done so for the past couple of years because we have the brain drain so we are trying to develop that,” Brady said.