Kirtland Community College will build Children's Learning Center
KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE -- It's been a project in the works for Kirtland Community College for quite a while now, but Wednesday, groundbreaking marked the reality.
The new Children's Learning Center will be a convenience, and also a spring-board for early-learning.
With a little toss of dirt and kids getting a chance to play with the golden shovels and cut into the ground that will soon be a place for them, Kirtland Community College broke ground for the new Warbler's Nest Children's Learning Center.
"It's a milestone, we should have done this 10 years ago, but it's a way of serving the students, and the children of the students," said KCC Board of Trustee’s Chairman Roy Spangler.
Right here in the midst of Warbler Country, that's where the new center's going to go. The $625,000 project will be 4,600 square feet, to help educate those kids of students and faculty who go and work here."
"We really want this place to be world class. And when I first gave the directions to the people that are taking care of work here on campus, I said let's have a world class facility, something that's a model for all of Northern Michigan," said KCC President Tom Quinn.
And Tom Quinn thinks it will be. The new "nest" will be a place for newborns to 6-year olds to get an early start on education. For faculty member Amy Coulter, it adds simplicity to her childcare routine and gets her kids on the right track.
"Preschool is so important, and the children's learning center just does a lot of great activities with the kids, of all ages,” said Coulter.
The groundbreaking was step one. Construction will begin in the next few days, with the project scheduled to be complete by January.
The new Warbler's Nest will replace the old children's learning center.
Students going into daycare or early education will work at the facility, giving them the early training they'll need as they embark on their careers.
