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ST. CLOUD U.S. Sen. Tina Smith met with child care leaders and providers Friday to talk about the toll of the pandemic on child care in Central Minnesota.
After touring the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge Friday morning, she arrived at Blooming Kids Care Center off West St. Germain Street to tour the facility and talk with owner Abdi Daisane.
Daisane s center is one of four Somali-owned child care centers in the St. Cloud area. In the pandemic, Daisane said he s seen a drastic drop in attendance.
Since opening in 2017 he said his center was usually fully booked, and sometimes the staff had to turn kids away. Now there s only around 30 kids and 8 employees in the space, a dramatic decrease from around 150 kids and 38 employees who would typically use the space before, he said.
On April 27, the Centers for Disease Control released new COVID-19 safety guidelines including expanded outdoor options for small groups. Once fully vaccinated, adults can now gather outdoors unmasked, travel within the U.S. without quarantining or testing, and join limited numbers of other vaccinated people indoors without masks or distancing.
This is good news for the approaching summer as better weather will allow many to take advantage of recreational opportunities that were sorely missed last summer under necessarily tighter precautions.
Nearby outdoor recreation is abundant. Here in St. Cloud the city’s Parks and Recreation Department manages nearly 1,700 acres of parks, ranging from the massive Whitney Park complex and the showplace Munsinger and Clemens Gardens to modest neighborhood parks like Lions Park on the edge of Pantown. With almost 100 parks and two dozen trails, there is likely some city-owned green space within walking distance of most residents. Everything f
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We re rolling into 2021 with a whole lot of optimism. Here s hoping this year, thanks to the vaccine rollout, we ll finally be able to start traveling again and that we ll dust off our passports and get to reschedule those ambitious 2020 trips we had to cancel.
It ll be some time before we get there, though, so like last year our upcoming plans are hyper-local, as we do everything we can to reduce the virus s continuing spread. But staying close to home doesn t have to mean shutting off a sense of adventure: We re taking great drives, plotting out epic meals, and finding slices of our favorite travel destinations right where we live (we re also continuing to support our favorite local businesses, as they need us more than ever).
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