A Day Care Center for children three to five years old will open at Hamilton Grade School on June 22 and run for ten weeks.
Flyers announcing the Center and listing job openings on the staff have been distributed throughout the neighborhood. Orientation for the program at the Day Care Center will take place during the week of June 15.
Project Five, as the center program is called, will provide day care between the hours of 7 A.M. and 5 P.M. for thirty children. Funds from HDC will enable Center officials to provide the care without cost to parents. Registration will be accomplished by interviews with parents of prospective students.
The staff, consisting of a director, a community developer, teachers and teen-age counsellors, will be recruited from the neighborhood as much as possible. The Neighborhood Youth Corps will supply teen-age counsellors. A hot lunch and snacks will be part of the daily program and officials hope to find a volunteer cook and a volunteer nurse for their staff.
Officers of Project Five hope to continue the Day Care Program into the fall and winter if funds can be found to support the project.
At a meeting last month Ernest Garrett was elected chairman of Project Five. Doug McKee is vice-chairman and Betty MacGrath secretary-treasurer.
Mrs. Macgrath said they hope Project Five will eventually become one part of an overall program for neighborhood betterment, with a Board composed of a wide range of community residents.
Neighbors interested in Project Five or with ideas of other local needs and how they can be met should contact Betty Macgrath (862-7624) or Elaine Moore (862-6897).
Originally published in The Paper, June 1970.
