Hundreds welcome Youth Enrichment Center at Floyd County Fairgrounds

Visitors to the Floyd County Youth Enrichment Center open house and fundraiser Friday night look over items for sale and for bid. Press photos by Bob Steenson

Mason Meyer, left, a senior at Charles City High School and president of the FFA chapter, looks over the list of checks received at a donation table staffed by Jacob Greenzweig, middle, a senior and FFA secretary, and freshman FFA member Bronson Forsyth.

Hundreds of people attend the Youth Enrichment Center open house Friday evening at the Floyd County Fairgrounds.

Hundreds of people attend the Youth Enrichment Center open house at the Floyd County Fairgrounds in March 2017. File photo

Bus shuttle service ferried people from parking across the highway to the new center open house.

The Floyd County Youth Enrichment Center is nearly complete inside except for some final kitchen installations. Funds were raised at the open house Friday to help pay for exterior work such as parking and landscaping.