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Cartwright touts need for child care, early learning in Plains Twp. visitTimes Leader
Plains Twp.,
September 3, 2021
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Jobs and the Economy
Sarah Valonis put a very human face to the call for more affordable child care, talking of her daughter pulled from the Building Blocks Learning Center program during the pandemic. The girl seemed to disappear at home, until the Laflin mother found her under the dining room table crying, a math workbook nearby. “She said ‘I can’t do it. I just can’t do it’,” Valonis told the people gathered at Building Blocks Thursday for a visit from U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright. That’s when she reworked everything to get her daughter back into the center, provoking a gleeful response on the return: “She ran through the door.” Valonis joined Building Blocks CEO Zubeen Saeed and Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce officials Wico Van Genderen and Lindsay Griffin, among others, to discuss the need for quality child care and early learning centers. Cartwright touted $1.2 billion for child care that Pennsylvania received through the federal American Rescue Plan. |