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Children enjoy a socially distanced picnic lunch at the Chautauqua Lake Child Care Center.
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Families across Western New York know the pressure of securing quality child care, often times being placed on waiting lists before their children are even born.
In Chautauqua County, that pressure has led to the region being referred to as a child care desert, a census area with over three times more children than licensed child care enrollment spots, with 20 child care centers and school-aged child care programs and 49 home-based providers.
“Access to high quality, affordable child care was a challenge for families long before COVID,” said Tory Irgang, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation executive director. “The pandemic, and subsequent stay at home order, revealed the critical impact child care has on workforce participation in our community, particularly for women.”
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Children enjoy a socially distanced picnic lunch at the Chautauqua Lake Child Care Center.
Submitted photos
Families across Western New York know the pressure of securing quality child care, often times being placed on waiting lists before their children are even born.
In Chautauqua County, that pressure has led to the region being referred to as a child care desert, a census area with over three times more children than licensed child care enrollment spots, with 20 child care centers and school-aged child care programs and 49 home-based providers.
“Access to high quality, affordable child care was a challenge for families long before COVID,” said Tory Irgang, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation executive director.
Feb 15, 2021
Pictured from left Lt. Kirk Lyon, Sheriffâs Academy director; recruit Jacob S. Dietzel; and Verna Feather, widow of Dan Feather).
This fall the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Academy awarded recruit Jacob Dietzel the Dan Feather Memorial Scholarship worth $1,000.
Dietzel is attending the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Academy at Jamestown Community College. He is from Jamestown and graduated from both Jamestown Community College and the State University of New York at Fredonia, and also serves in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
Dietzel was accepted into the Sheriff’s Academy in August 2020.
The Dan Feather Memorial Scholarship was created by Verna Feather, the widow of Dan Feather, an 18-year veteran of the Jamestown Police Department. The recipient must be a Chautauqua County resident who is attending the Sheriff’s Academy and possesses qualities which reflect the professionalism and character that Dan Feather demonstrated during his service as
Jan 25, 2021
Audubon Community Nature Center’s Snowflake Daze: Embrace the Winter will be held Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 6-7.
The Audubon Community Nature Center is transforming its annual Snowflake Festival into Snowflake Daze for 2021.
On Saturday, Feb. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or Sunday, Feb. 7, from noon to 4:30 p.m., area residents can explore the winter landscape, learn about some activities that embrace the snow and engage in some hibernation-friendly hobbies and crafts.
Sign up for an hour-and-a-half time slot to choose activities ranging from scavenger hunts to a backyard fire to bird feeder making candy. Audubon will have s’mores kits available for sale and use over the backyard fire. A child-sized cardboard village will spark imaginative play in the backyard along with ice bowling, group skis and other outdoor games. A self-guided nature hike will help those attending understand what is happening in the natural world.