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Childcare facility receives $36,000 grant from province
Emily Plihal
for Express
After a year-long application process, the Smoky Regional Childcare Society has received a grant for $36,000 from the provincial government.
The grant is part of the Making Spaces Grant available through the government.
The childcare society will be using the grant for repairs and upgrades for the facility, which will be located in the playschool building southeast of Routhier School. The grant will allow the society to purchase furnishings, materials and supplies needed to set up the space.
All operation costs for the daycare will be covered by registration fees paid by parents of the children in the daycare.
“We have space for 22 kids,” says Smoky River Childcare Society President Tina Fournier. “Children from ages 19 months to five years, or until they begin school will be eligible for the care.”
Fournier explains the project has been worked on for over a year, and the society has crossed every “t” and dotted every “i” to ensure the daycare will run smoothly.
Parents who were questioned in a survey last year were willing to pay an estimated monthly fee of $600 to $650 for daycare services, and would put their children in daycare for more than a year.
Letters were also sent out to local schools, churches, community halls and organizations to find a spot for the facility to be held.
High Prairie School Division generously donated the spot at the playschool for the childcare facility to be held.
Last month the group put final touches on licensing and application processes that will help to get the childcare facility running.
Tentative date for the facility to be opened will be Aug. 16, 2010. Fournier explains the date will allow parents and children to receive a full orientation to the facility before becoming full time in Sept.
More information about the childcare facility will be available in upcoming editions of the Smoky Riv er Express.
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Tina Fourner receives a cheque from MLA Hector Goudreau for $36,000 to help fund the childcare facility set to open this fall.
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