Delivering
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OPENING AT CAP MALL

Child-minding service
takes load off shopper

SHOPPERS. with children North Shore Neighbourhood = months and six years as part of a Manager Carol Tario Bobick four to six and a quiet room with a
can take advantage of a new House is providing child-minding community service offered at the said the service is not only for library and record player.

service at Capilano Mall for children between the ages of 18 = North Vancouver mall. shoppers but anyone in the com- “We're a non-promt agency so
we're not out to make a profit. We
just want to provide a service to

munity who needs a babysitting
service for a short time.

The child-minding service is cur-
rently run weekdays from 9:30
a.m. to 6 p.m., but by the end of
October the hours will be extended
to include weekends and the mall’s
regular evening hours.

On Monday, the service's first
day of operation, two children
were left with workers, who are
qualified early childcare workers.
By Tuesday the number of children
had increased to five.

When the service will be at full
capacity there will be seven
workers available to care for as
many as 28 children. The cost is $3
per hour,

Tario Bobick said NSNH is try-
ing to provide a ‘‘stimulating ex-
perience’’ for the children.

“Children are not just being left
in a room," she said.

“There are three play areas —
one for the children 18 months to
three years, another for children

the community,” she said.

Phil McArthur, general manager
of Capilano Mall, said the mall is
very pleased with its child-minding
service,

He said it’s the first child-min-
ding service of its kind on the
North Shore. Other child-minding
services in malls are in Coquitlam
and Nanaimo.

“We think we have a very
unique project,’’ he said.

“Our intention is to be very in-
volved in the community.’’

He said the child-minding ser-
vice is located in the mall’s upper
level above the grand concourse.

Tario Bobick said it’s an ideal
location, away from the hustle and
bustle of shoppers a floor below.

She said the space the child-
minding service is located in was
especially designed for the service.

“We're really pleased to be
here,”’ she said.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

CHILDCARE supervisor Alexandra Hammer holds Charlene Seward in her arms, one of the first children to
experience the new child-minding service at Capilano Mall, rua by North Shore Neighbourhood House.

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