SEQUIM – Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula has a new executive director.
Bob Schilling, who has been the senior executive for Clallam and Jefferson Counties Boy Scouts of America for the past 4½ years, will assume the new position July 9.
The Boys & Girls Club operates two units – a club facility each in Sequim and Port Angeles.
Prior to his position with the Boy Scouts of America, Schilling spent 26 years with the State Patrol.
Schilling said he was selected in part for his connection to the community and his passion for helping youth.
“It actually goes back to my law enforcement days,” he said, “because one of the things that I distinctly remember is having really good students who were observed doing something wrong.
“They were put in back of my patrol car and were just back there weeping, begging me not to arrest them and begging me not to tell their parents.
“The reasons being that they were wanting to go into military or had some other goals, and they knew that what they just got arrested for was going to destroy what they were working for.
He said he wants to “give youth in the community something else to do other than get in trouble.”
