2008.10.27
One dollar will do it
Radford City Councilman Bob Nicholson put in a plug for the Radford Child Care Center Monday night. The center, a non-profit that was the subject of a recent story, needs $10,000. The economic downturn has hit the center from several directions. Prices for all sorts of things, including an increase in the minimum wage, have gone up. Layoffs have meant fewer parents need -- or can afford -- child care. And some of them haven't been able to pay for the child care they already got. The center called in a consultant and came up with a plan to turn the current situation into a self-sustaining arrangement. But there's still that $10,000.
There are 16,000 people in Radford, Nicholson pointed out. If everyone gave the center $1, he said, that would get the center, which has been watching Radford's children for more than 50 years, back in good shape.
-- Tim Thornton
