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Half the questions local businesses ask us are already answered in the note we send each month

Nobody on my board told me to write this

Behind the noise of a good afternoon there is a schedule somebody built and a person who stayed late to build it

An honest accounting: we serve thirty-eight kids and turn away about a dozen every fall

A former student now runs our Thursday craft table

Turnover is our biggest problem and I am not going to pretend otherwise

Pickup times account for most of our phone calls, which tells you something about how tightly families around here are

Skip this if you already gave somewhere this quarter and feel done

Twelve modules, each under twenty minutes, because your staff are watching them between homework help and pickup

Three programs like ours have closed within driving distance since I started

A snack budget ran out in March at a program serving sixty kids

There was a fifth grader last spring who came in every day for the puzzles and left through the side door without