
Ribbon cut for city’s newest child care centre; spots still available
KAMLOOPS — The City of Kamloops and YMCA BC officially cut the ribbon on what provincial grant money bought them — a new childcare facility with 32 spaces.
“One of the biggest issue we had with hiring the talent that we needed was daycare spaces. And so we started down a path about 3 or 4 years ago, saying, ‘How could we look at operating a day care?’ That’s what led us to today,” explains Kamloops councillor and deputy mayor Mike O’Reilly.
It took four years to get the YMCA Station Plaza Care and Learning Centre opened and it comes shortly after other applications for the ChildCare BC News Spaces Fund weren’t chosen. The city had recently applied to turn the Parkview Activity Centre into a childcare facility and the Early Learning Society of Kamloops also sought the grant to build an expansion to the Children’s Circle Centre on Ninth Avenue.