PARISH CENTER FOR DAY CARE ON ITS WAY OUT.Byline: Heather MacDonald Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - The first parish-sponsored day-care center day-care center: see day nursery. in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Archdiocese arch·di·o·cese n. The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction. arch  di·oc will close at the end of the school year, the victim of a space crunch at the Canyon Country church. St. Clare of Assisi's Little People Day Care Center, which was started in 1989 by two longtime friends and parishioners, now takes care of about 100 infants, toddlers and preschoolers every week, teaching them Catholic traditions, values and prayers. Monsignor Ed monsignor: see orders, holy. Renehan, the church pastor, told parents in a letter last week the Camp Plenty church will close the center on June 20. ``Additional space is needed for the pressing needs of youth programs, particularly confirmation, youth ministry and (Latino) programs,'' Renehan wrote. Renehan told parents that there was no other option but to close the day- care center because of the lack of available space. The decision to close the center will benefit the greatest number of parishioners, said Tod Tamberg, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Archdiocese. ``The good news is that St. Clare is a vibrant parish with 5,000 registered families,'' Tamberg said. ``However, as it grows, the parish must focus on its sacramental sacramental, in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament. Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings. duties and essential ministries.'' Tonja White, whose son and daughter attended the program for four years, said Monday she was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. to hear that the day-care center was being shut down. ``It breaks my heart because I've seen what this program can do,'' the Canyon Country mother said. ``It's a wonderful, fantastic preparation for kindergarten and elementary school elementary school: see school. . It's not a baby-sitting service.'' Seventeen part-time workers and six full-time staff members will lose their jobs, Tamberg said. The full-time employees will be offered severance packages, he added. Another mother, Lorena Aquilar said she was dismayed to learn she had to find a new day-care program for her two daughters, 2-year-old Catalina and 4-month-old Sierra. ``I had hoped to enroll Catalina in this wonderful program in July, but now I'll have to find something else,'' Aquilar said. ``And as for Sierra, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . Infant waiting lists in this valley are outrageous.'' White and Aquilar said they were hopeful that a solution to save the Little People Day Care Center could be found. ``It doesn't make any sense to allow such a successful, positive program to shut down,'' White said. ``Something has to be done.'' |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion