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Show THE PARK RECORD www.park record.com WED, THURS, FRI, JANUARY 5-7, 2005 B-9 Education. EDUCATION EDITOR: Jared Whltley 649-9014ex1.118 educatlon@parkrecord.com Total Energy's days could be numbered Community ed classes Park City School District's 'The Compass" brochures are out, listing winter Community Education classes. For adults, classes include art, fitness, computer, scrap-booking, and other hobby-related classes. There are a variety of fun classes for kids. Brochures are available at school offices, both libraries, or the school district office at 2700 Kearns Blvd. Class listings are aiso available online at pcschools.us. Click on "Community," then "Community Education" and register online! For more information, call Julia Jones at 615-0215. Preschool Fair A preschool fair offers parents the chance to compare their children's preschool options in one , convenient place. Representatives from area preschools will be available to answer questions from prospective parents, as well as distribute informational booklets from their school. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public, so bring your friends and neighbors with preschool-age kids. Schools represented include The Colby School, Little Miners Montessori, Shining Stars Co-Op Preschool, Little Stars Preschool, Educational Advantage, Another Way Preschool, and Life Arts Preschool. The fair is Thursday, Jan. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Miners Hospital, 1355 Park Avenue in City Park. Please RSVP to Allison Stone at ayo944@yahoo.com or 647-0230 by Jan. 4. Teen drinking The Citizen's Alliance will hold a meeting on teenage drinking Jan. 13 at 6 p.m. in the high school lecture hall (room 149). "•- - ; To stay in business, broke daycare needs 'an angel/ says President Terri Santy By JAREP WHITLEY Of the Record staff The Pinebrook daycare facility Total Energy Preschool is in dire straits. The managers of Total Energy, which serves about 80 children ages six weeks to 9 years, are in danger of losing their building because of therisingcost of doing business. "This was our dream, this was our mission," said Terri Santy, Total Energy president. "We want to be here for this community and we need this community's support and we cant do it by ourselves anymore." Total Energy caters to two-parent or single-parent working families, and offers benefits that many other day care places don't, Santy says. For example, it's open during holidays and the summer. The increased cost of life in Park City has made it difficult for Total Energy to keep up on their mortgage payments. Total Energy director Kris Vipond hesitated to give specifics about losing the building, but described the preschool's situation as "extremely urgent." "You dont see other people coming in to do this because it's not' affordable," GRAYSON WEST/'PARKRECORD Santy said. "And what scares me is our community can't afford to be without us." Charlie Lambert (right) and Karsten Beling of Lillian Hauze's class at Total Energy might need to find a new daycare. \ The building's monthly lease payment is more than $14,000 per month on the $1 mil- do," Vipond said. "But we dont need the grant money "almost instantly dried up," throwing this out to the .community, (Total lion building. Total Energy brings in about whole building. The building is a little big- Santy said, as altruistic giving was directed Energy) needs to be here, we need their to the Red* Cross and other 9/11-related support." $34,000 per month in tuition, but payroll ger than what we need." The second story of the Total Energy charities. % Lynne Griggs has sent her 7-year-old alone is $22,000 per month, Santy said, let building has about 3,000 square feet and "We have never been able to recover son, Liam, to Total Energy since he was 2. alone other expenses. "More and more (preschools) like us are could serve as office space for a partner in and now we face the possibility of closure She's also a former board member. "The great thing about Total Energy is going out of business because they can't the building's ownership, Vipond said, unless we can find some serious donors or which would be a "phenomenal invest- more affordable space," Santy said. "If we there's always qualified, back-up child care, afford the real estate," Santy said. had the building paid for, we would never that's the huge advantage to working famiOne way many preschools stay in busi- ment." have a major financial issue again." lies," Griggs said. "If we can't make it go, The ideal solution is for a wealthy benefacness is by partnering with churches. Before Total Energy's monthly student popula- I'm not quite sure what I would do." moving tp its current space. Total Energy tor to buy the building and donate it back A large concern for Griggs is her infant was housed in the Park City Community to Total Energy, a non-profit organization. tion is about 80, and tuition costs are $500 "It's a complete write-off," said Santy, for a kindergartener coming in every day son, Gavin, whom she was planning to send Church until 1996. If Total Energy loses the building, locat- observing that when she bought the build- after school. If Total Energy raised prices to to Total Energy. Finding other infant dayed at 3160 Pinebrook Road, the school ing in 1996, it was priced at $1 million, but cover its expenses, its working families care might prove challenging. "It would be tough because there aren't administrators will have to find a different is now worth about $1.6 million because of couldn't afford it, Santy said. "It's what you're starting to see in Park a ton of after-school programs, where I space, something they don't want to do. the increase in property values. would really be in a world of hurt is infant City more and more," she continued. And since real estate is so expensive in Non-profit woes Many child care places in Park City stay care," Griggs said. She noted, ' i niay have Park City, it might be impossible. to go into Salt Lake, but if I'm doing all my In early September of 2001, Total afloat by serving wealthier clientele. "To find that in Park City and still be "Working class forces that keep this work up here, that would be very inconvenaffordable is our issue as to whether or not Energy became a non-profit organization, we're going to survive," Santy said. "We registered with the IRS, so they could community alive are finding it harder and ient." accept donations, hold fundraisers, and harder to afford living here," Vipond said. While there is infant care in Park City, kind of hope for an angel." "We're looking for an angel, we're look- there are not a lot of available slots, she "This is the perfect space for what we apply for grants. : c t- *-, %•-.•> i j ^ - t ( But then after Sept. 11, donations and ing for a miracle," Santy said. "We're said. F I N E A R T Presents REMBRANDT PICASSO CHRIST HEALING THE SICK - REMBRANDT - 1649 VIRGIN AND CHILD IN THE CLOUDS - REMBRANDT - 1641 LIFETIME ORIGINAL ETCHINGS DECEMBER 26 - JANUARY 15 HOLIDAY SHOW 10:00 a.m.- 10:00 p.m. Daily 751 Main St. BUST W/CHECK CLOTH BODICE - PICASSO (Lower Main St.) Park City (435) 658-1800 www.stanfieldfineart.com DANSEUSE - PICASSO - 1954 |