WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — The sweets sounds of success didn’t come easy for Tyrell Jackson-Streets.
This fall, he’ll head to Western Michigan University as a freshman, but those plans weren’t always in the cards.
“I had a lot of friends that tried to bring me along to their bad influences. But I actually tried to help them… like, you don’t have to do this. There’s a lot of things you can do other than this,” Jackson-Streets said. “I really don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t come to New City Kids.”
New City Kidsis an after-school program that uses music to give an at-risk kids from the northwest side of Grand Rapids a constructive way to use their time starting as early as first grade.
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