After-school care program in works
Megan Grittani-Livingston
Whistler Question
May 27, 2009

Whistler – Pemberton’s new community centre will again house an after-school care program, after the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) board voted Monday (May 25) to rent out the centre’s after-school room to the Sea to Sky Community Services Society (SSCS) for a program.

Community members voiced concerns that local families would be in serious need of more local options for after-school care after SLRD officials concluded in February that they had to shut down the after-school program being run in the new community centre.

… The community centre space can accommodate 20 children per day, and the SSCS has a waiting list of 36 children who need care in September, the proposal states, so the new program would allow the SSCS to “accommodate all of the children… (taking) a great deal of stress off the parents.”

… Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy also welcomed the service, saying he heard the community feedback that this was an “important service” after the cancellation of the original program. He subsequently had conversations with the SSCS and Pemberton Children’s Centre operators to talk about ways of fulfilling the need….