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| H&N photos by Andrew Mariman The Klamath KID Center has helped Bobbie Kramer, 30, raise her three children, Kirstin, 4, Kamdon, 16 months, and Kadence, 4. The center charges a small fee for day care, allowing the single mother to hold down a job so she can provide for her children. |
Klamath KID Center has been in operation since 1973
By STEVE KADEL
H&N Staff Writer
Bobbie Kramer is a 30-year-old single mother with three young children.
She works as a room attendant at Microtel Inn and Suites, and needs day care for her youngsters when she’s on the job. She investigated some day care facilities locally, but wasn’t satisfied with what she saw. Then she found the Klamath KID Center, where she is happy to leave her children on workdays.
“It’s a good place to be,” Kramer said of the agency, which receives funding through United Way of the Klamath Basin. “You won’t go wrong with their care.”
She drops off her children — Kadence and Kirstin, both 4, and 1-year-old Kamdon — between 8 and 9 a.m. and picks them up about 4:30 p.m.
With child-care help from the state along with the KID Center’s scholarship policy, Kramer figures she has paid a total of $90 for the past seven months of day care.
She pays only for time her children are in day care beyond 100 hours a month.
What would she do without the center?
“I have absolutely no clue,” said Kramer, who gets no financial help from her former husbands.
The KID center provides lots of activities during the day, as well as breakfast, lunch and a snack for the children. Kramer said her kids enjoy going there.
“I know they get to play outside,” she said. “And they sing songs — my kids have been singing lots of songs. Everything’s just the way it’s supposed to be.”
Son Kadence will be in kindergarten next year, but Kramer hopes to keep her other two at the KID Center. She even found her weekend babysitter at the center.
“I am so glad I came to them,” Kramer said.
She works as a room attendant at Microtel Inn and Suites, and needs day care for her youngsters when she’s on the job. She investigated some day care facilities locally, but wasn’t satisfied with what she saw. Then she found the Klamath KID Center, where she is happy to leave her children on workdays.
“It’s a good place to be,” Kramer said of the agency, which receives funding through United Way of the Klamath Basin. “You won’t go wrong with their care.”
She drops off her children — Kadence and Kirstin, both 4, and 1-year-old Kamdon — between 8 and 9 a.m. and picks them up about 4:30 p.m.
With child-care help from the state along with the KID Center’s scholarship policy, Kramer figures she has paid a total of $90 for the past seven months of day care.
She pays only for time her children are in day care beyond 100 hours a month.
What would she do without the center?
“I have absolutely no clue,” said Kramer, who gets no financial help from her former husbands.
The KID center provides lots of activities during the day, as well as breakfast, lunch and a snack for the children. Kramer said her kids enjoy going there.
“I know they get to play outside,” she said. “And they sing songs — my kids have been singing lots of songs. Everything’s just the way it’s supposed to be.”
Son Kadence will be in kindergarten next year, but Kramer hopes to keep her other two at the KID Center. She even found her weekend babysitter at the center.
“I am so glad I came to them,” Kramer said.
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SLH wrote on Sep 22, 2008 12:06 PM:
" My daughter has gone to the Kid Center for the past three years and is now in kindergarten. I have nothing but postive things to say about the Kid Center. My daughter is well above her classmates now in school and I give many thanks to the Kid Center for helping her to be well prepared for school. "
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