The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 2008 Page: 2 of 36
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THURSDAY 1 3 NOVEMBER 2DDB
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WINNERS OFTHE
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FOR COURAGE, TENACITY B INTEGRITY
IN COMMUNITY JOURNALISM
A GREAT PUBLIC OUTCRY met the announce-
ment last spring of plans to close the YMCAday
care center's doors. A deafening silence has fol-
lowed, and a fund-raising campaign to build a
new Rachel's Little House which could better
serve the needs of Canadian's youngest citi-
zens—as well as their working parents and the
businesses which employ them—has faltered.
Today, those children are literally fighting
for space in a 100-year-old building as crowd-
ed as that of the old woman of nursery rhyme
famed who lived in a shoe. And those are the
lucky ones—the ones fortunate enough to be
accepted as students rather than being put on
a waiting list.
This community, it seems, pays better lip
service to its causes than it pays in dues.
One of only two certified day care centers
serving this community, the Y facility's clos-
ng was expected to have a dramatic impact on
working families and 011 the ability of local busi-
nesses to hire and retain employees. The inevi-
table fallout would spread eventually to what
has been a slowly expand ing local economy.
Whether or not those doomsday warnings
have been borne out is hard to know—and may
not be fully evident for years to come. Canadian
ISD's decision to provide free pre-Kindergar-
ten classes has certainly taken some of the sting
out of the day care shortage. Dozens of other
former Y-dependant families have apparently
found solutions to their day care needs, though
whether those solutions provide the safe, reli-
able and stimulating environment so vital to the
developmental health and education of young
children is not clear.
] ittle House director Dana Koch says she
receives calls every day from parents seeking li-
censed child care options, and maintains a wait-
ng list of fourteen families who are in immedi -
ate need. Those fourteen families do not include
the many others who have expressed interest In
nfant care—an option neither the Little House
nor the YMC A have ever been able to offer.
CI Id care is an essential part of any strong
economy. Not only does the child care industry
employ workers, pay wages and taxes, and pur-
chase goods and services from other industries,
t also enables parents to enter and remain in
the workforce.
A good day care center also offers children
a helpful head start in educational basics and
n developing good social skills. While nothing
takes the place of good parenting, it is not un-
common to find good parents who must work
to support their families, and who need skilled
childcare workers to stand in for them during
the day.
The $1.3 million building project proposed
by the board of Rachel's Little House would re-
place a cramped and antiquated day care facility
that has served this community well, but can no
longer adequately meet the needs of its young
families. The new facility not only would offer
some much-needed elbow room to the children
t could serve, it would serve more of them. For
the first time, it would also offer infant day care,
more modern kitchen and laundry facilities and
six—count them: six—bathrooms, a compelling
enticement for anyone who has stood in line with
a young child waiting to meet nature's call.
Think of those squirming children, their
legs crossed, their faces locked n anguish, as
they await their turn in one of the Little House's
four bathrooms. Ponder that when you pick up a
pen and write a check...for $5, for $50, for $500
or $5,000.
If you are a parent, or a grandparent, it's
your turn to ante up for a child's future. If you
are an employer, it is in your business's best in-
terests- if not your moral obligation—to con-
sider the needs of your employee's children
while they are at work.
If you are a resident of Hemphill County
who relies on local businesses for their services,
or whose own business is affected by this com-
munity's economic health, you cannot afford to
gnore this plea for financial assistance. If you
are an educator—regardless of the ages of your
own children—these young citizens are your
future students. Your partnership with them
begins now.
If you have profited from this community's
economy, or enjoyed the resources it offers, or
been served in any way by its workforce, you
can contribute to ts brighter future by writ-
ng a check today to help Rachel's Little House
meet its goal. If you railed about the loss of one
of this community's day care centers, and have
not written a check to support its other one, it is
time to pay your dues.
Let's give all of our children—the ones born
and as yet unborn—a great Christmas present
this year. To contribute to the Rachel's Little
House Building Fund, send your tax-deduct-
ble contribution to RO. Box 961, Canadian, TX
79014.
LETTERS
Thankfulness
PAT AND I ARE most pleased with the doc-
tors, nurses, EMS and Sheriff's Department,
who very professionally restored my wife back
to health. Certainly much thanks and praise to
the invisible One who works quietly behind the
scenes.
However, as we made our way to the lab,
we were accosted by a bloody hand protrud ing
from the wall, skeletons with long fanged teeth,
witches with brooms, cobwebs and spiders.
These are objects that will probably be seer in a
place nobody wants to go.
In time of uncertainty, I would much rath-
er see a picture of Jesus with staff in hand car-
rying a lamb, or walk under a statue of Mother
Mary with kind eyes and loving hand extended
toward my fevered brow.
During the Christmas season, let us make
the manger scene even more visible. As Chris-
tians, we all know the birth of Jesus is our very
existence of living. Santa Claus is a jolly old
man, not an underworld figure, and I'm not an
anti-trick or treater.
Also, thanks to the many who prayed for
Pat's recovery and the scrumptious meals.
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