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In three short weeks, avid readers of all ages and literary tastes will have an opportunity to meet 40-or-so authors and peruse their works at W. Walworth Harrison Public Library’s ....
Posted: May 09, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 9 The playground at the Little Blue Early Care & Learning Centre in Dawson City, one of many daycare facilities in the territory that are at maximum capacity.(Little Blue Daycare) comments Parents in Yukon now have subsidized daycare, but in some communities there is a shortage of space. Heather Menzies is a parent in Dawson City who is on that community s waiting list. It s great that it s been subsidized and it s an affordable place to send your child. It s just a matter of having the space to send them, she said. We need a new building desperately. Local women cannot get back into the workforce, it s hugely problematic. Eventually the [parental leave] runs out. ....
When I was a child and growing up in a small rural town, the nearest public library was 30 miles away. Periodically a book mobile (a library on wheels) would arrive at the school and we could âcheck outâ books. To peruse the shelves in that little mobile unit was a thrill beyond words, and the books were treated like gold. About that time, one of my aunts joined a library club of sorts and she received books in the mail. She treasured each one and kept them in a built-in glass hutch near the living room of her pristine home. She would allow the children to read them only if you sat on the floor near the hutch and take one out a time and put it back. And it was a cardinal sin if you ever dared to turn the corners back on a page. ....