Child care void worries residents
The Kamloops Daily News / The Canadian Press
19 Sep 2006

DAWSON CREEK - A lack of available child care is becoming an increasingly significant issue here, local child-care staff say.

"I've had eight families with infants (in recent weeks) phone me that I cannot place," said Pam Sawers, co-ordinator of the local child care and referral program.

Many parents are becoming frantic because there are few or no alternatives, she said.

Erin Oliver, who co-ordinates Dawson Creek's child-care programs, said many people are not going into day care as a career any more.

"Most seem to be going after the higher wages," she said.