Preschool ready for Fall Fest
Like the rest of Utah, our Park City community and larger Summit and Wasatch counties are currently experiencing a dire shortage of teachers to care for and educate young children. The Park City School District Child Care Center is heartbreakingly scheduled to close this month after being unable to source teachers and care-providers. Housed in the Park City library, the Park City Cooperative Preschool, a community mainstay for the last 35 years, came within days of closing after an intensive – and ultimately successful – summer-long search for teachers.
To usher in autumn and celebrate our commitment to affordable preschool for any local child as we return from several challenging years during the pandemic, the Park City Cooperative Preschool will be hosting its inaugural Fall Fest this Saturday, October 8, at the Park City Library Field from 11 am to 3 pm. With admission, families and kids can enjoy a pumpkin patch, bounce house, face painting, games, and generously donated Starbucks beverages and Park City Bread & Bagel goods.
For over three decades, Park City Cooperative Preschool continues to serve local kids aged three to five. Led by a parent volunteer board, our nonprofit school recognizes the challenges that many families and workers who live or work in Park City face in caring for and educating their young children, and we are exploring ways to expand programming to meet their needs. To ensure tuition that’s in reach for all during a time of rising rents and teacher salaries, we need Park City’s support to sustain our work to meet our community’s evolving needs.
Please join us for Fall Fest at the Park City Library Field this Saturday. Tickets in support of our school can be purchased at parkcitycoop.com. If you’re unable to attend, please consider giving to the Park City Cooperative Preschool for Live PC Give PC on November 4.
Anne Evans
President, Park City Cooperative Preschool
Thaynes Canyon
A civic duty to be skeptical
In today’s toxic social environment, it is not only a civic duty to be skeptical with just about everything we see and hear, it’s a moral obligation. In a truly free and open government by the people, those who take time and energy out of their day, regardless of party affiliation, to stand up and be heard, are champions of truth.
The recent KPCW report and The Park Records’s biased rant entitled “Pillow Talk” on Karen Ballash and her successful attempt to bring attention to this unresolved issue, was nothing but a feeble attempt to divide us even further and dismiss Karen’s voice.
We are told the borders are secure, the FBI is just rounding up insurrectionists, the economy has never been better and yes, that horrible Russian guy is causing all the problems. Believe what you may, but be careful what you hope for.
America was founded on asking questions and demanding answers. Without that, we are just another country ruled by self serving despots. Thank you Karen.
Mike Quinones
Summit Park