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Director Courtenay O'Neill with kids from the Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center.

The Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center, or Davidson-Cornelius Day Care as it used to be called, has been offering quality child care for local children since the late 1960s. My two siblings and I attended for three years, and many of our friends did also.  So for this PaddySmack, I interviewed a few graduates of DCCDC and asked them what they remember and their favorite parts of the school.

Since its beginning, the center has served a lot of local families. One alumna, Lauren White, just graduated from Harvard with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology. She’s a pretty impressive person to have among the graduates of any school. It’s fantastic to think that her earliest education happened at our day care. Read the full story

Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center on Gamble Street is now accepting applications for a new pre-kindergarten Spanish immersion program to run August through next June.

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Paddy Millen

Young columnist Paddy Millen continues this week as a summer fill-in for Around Davidson columnist Brenda Barger.

Hey Davidsonians, I hope everybody had a great July 4th Weekend. For some, it’s back to work. For others, the vacation starts or gets to keep going. Today, we check in with a team of Davidson College Presbyterian Church volunteers just back from Kenya; get an update on Davidson College’s kudzu jungle, where goats are working this summer; and meet the Tamarro family.
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Davidson Cornelius Day Care Center becomes Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center; state rating and finances begin to rebound, thanks in part to community support

By MICHELE MILLER HOUCK
DavidsonNews.net

On Aug. 21, 2009, Davidson Cornelius Day Care Center announced it needed to raise $64,000 in three weeks to keep its doors open through the end of that year. Now a little more than a year after that near-death experience, board members are looking to the future with cautious optimism and giving thanks for an outpouring of community support that has included donations of more than $180,000.

A fund-raising letter that went out on Monday cited some of the milestones over the past year and highlighted the center’s recent accomplishments. It also brought news that the center – on Gamble Street on Davidson’s West Side – is adopting a new name, Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center. Read the full story

By MICHELE MILLER HOUCK
DavidsonNews.net

The Town of Davidson is considering a request from the financially troubled Davidson Cornelius Day Care for a $300,000 letter of credit to cover back withholding taxes and operating expenses. Read the full story

Also a discussion: Should the town make a loan to Davidson-Cornelius Day Care?

Davidson’s Town Board meets Tuesday night, March 9, with a busy agenda that includes presentations on a new marketing plan for the town and the MI-Connection cable system, a graduation for Civics 101 participants, and honors for Davidson IB Middle School’s national champion Future City team. The board also is scheduled to vote on a revised master plan for a Jetton Street development, a lease renewal for the Ada Jenkins Center and a master lease for the new PiES business incubator. Read the full story

By MICHELE MILLER HOUCK
DavidsonNews.net

After three months of analysis it came down to two questions for the Davidson-Cornelius Day Care center’s task force: First, does our community want to continue to support working families through affordable child care services? And second, can we count on continued financial support? Read the full story