By Joanne McQuarrie
It has been a long-anticipated service and on December 16, the Village of Canal Flats hosted the grand opening of its brand new daycare facility.
“There was a large crowd,” said Sylvie Hoobanoff, corporate officer in Canal Flats. “There would have been about 20, 25 people there.”
Canal Flats mayor, Mark Doherty, along with CAO, Richard Wayken, Sioban Staplin and former mayor, Karl Sterzer, gave presentations to the crowd. The person who donated the land the daycare is on, Brian Fehr, owner of CF Bidco Property Holdings Inc., attended the grand opening too.
“There were former and current council members in attendance, and the daycare staff – manager Ashley Nielsen and early childhood educators, Sonja Bond and Caroline Marisett,” Hoobanoff noted.
The daycare opens on January 3, and many parents have requested pre-registration. “We’ve always had interest from the moment the grant was announced,” Hoobanoff said, and added at first, “It’ll be a staggered opening for age range.”
