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Three Crescent City nonprofit childcare centers were on the brink of shutting down by the end of the year — victims of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — when they received a $20,000 grant this week to prevent staff layoffs and keep serving 49 children and their families. “We were literally going to have an emergency board meeting this month to decide whether to close the three centers down in January. It was that dire of a situation,” said Melodee Mitchell, director for the Del Norte Child Care Council. “These families are working families and this would have directly impacted their ability to work — and we would have had to lay off employees, who would be forced to draw unemployment.”

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