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City offers support to daycare

Council pledges assistance to protect needed service

The Sundance City Council has pledged support to KidPrints Inc. in an effort to help alleviate a tough financial time for the daycare.

As well as paying off the note on the building to avoid an increase in rent, the city has decided to replenish KidPrints's coffers in the amount of $4000.

The alternative to this assistance, said Mayor Paul Brooks, is to risk Sundance no longer having daycare facilities available – a service he feels is too important to the community for that to be an option.

The last time Sundance lacked a daycare, the mayor said, there was, "Really high absenteeism at w...