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Center gives day care option to parents with sick children Hy Angie Muni/. Of lh* Kmrralil When a child is sick, working parent* often are faced with staying home or hiring a sitter. Day i:ar« centers usually refuse to care lor sic k children Hut the Sick Child Cure center. 1047 Pearl St., offers an alternative. The center Is the only licensed sick child care program in the Pacific Northwest, and us of November 1985. one of six sick childcare programs in the country. ■} '’The center is a place where children can be comfortable during this first stages of illness or recovery." said Carrie Haynes, a center employee, •• 7 - ":''r The program will accept any child ;l mon ths to 12 years of ago us long us the disease is" -not contagions. . .. • Toressa llarfer said she established the / center about a year-ago;after attending <i. child care coiderence-iicNew (irleuns and in . response fo p<ire.nt's'.rc<|oests.li .‘M-gccr a tremcBmlini. amount of Inforrha-" tion. <U the conference .mdrnmhmeditwith common sense. ■ I, wOjked with]]other medical and child] citre .c enters; to ot'iginatcf my]"own • . • program." shpsdlda'. .V].^' ; ' ' .. ‘ "It deyeloped-ihrmigh uty Own experience (id having.a sick.cliilcf and; wc^rk) and".seeing the 'dilemma niajhy] parents at the other i enters . wore p.ut into.when their , hild was si, k and we r oiddii't accept (the , tn!d|." she said r^- .■ ! . .-r— In addition to the Sick Child Caro center. Harter operates the Security First Infant Center. Pearl St., and the Security First Preschool & Daycare Center. 1531 Pearl St. Linda McCueo. a local businesswoman who uses the service..said she noticed an advertisement for the center shortly after mov ing to Eugene. “I have three kids and a new business, so it was nice to find a place that will offer that kind of service/’ she said. A child enrolled at the center will receive love alfd attention, Haynes said. Medicine is administered only at a doctor's orders or a parent's request, and a team of doctors advises the center in emergencies, she said. McCuen said she appreciates the service's updates about her son's condition. "They are constantly in contact with me to tell me if Ryan's fever had gone up or down, etc.;" McCuen said. "I feel very comfortable, about Ryan being there." The center..- a .small refurnished house, has room for 12 children with.separate tiedrooms and a central activity room. The cost for one child is $25 a day or $:t an hour. Children enrolled at other Security First centers can use the service free University students whose financial aid pays for the KMU child care program also can use aid to pay for the Sick Child flare program Hholo bv M«ri4 (Jiirvrfllis / he Sick ('hihi Curt* t enter, located at Ui47 Pearl St., gives working parents a place to leave their sick children when other day care centers refuse to take them. Continued from Pork 1 meaning in the United States so that it now includes oral sex as well. Graff said. Uy taking gay rights cases to the courts. NGRA is educating the straight com munity and raising their con sciousness. Graff said, livery case educates the judges, the lawyers and the public, he said. "My message is this: We're not going to tolerate any infr ingement of our c ivil liberties at any time, any where.” Craft Looking for work? Qr What’s better than a shot In the dark? A: A Resume from ODE Graphic Services! 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