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Volume 24 Number 3
Your COMMUNITY... Your NEWSPAPER
March 2023
Vanscoy and District Early Learning Centres are the First Rural Multi-Site, Multi-Community, Centres in the Province
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he Vanscoy and District Early Learning Centres (VELC) are the first rural multi-site, multi-community centres in the province. The Vanscoy Centre was built in 2010 with support of community volunteers and families from the Rural Municipality of Vanscoy include Delisle, Asquith and Pike Lake. Over the years the centre was supported by families from across the RM of Vanscoy. In 2020 the Delisle center opened, and now the Asquith centre is scheduled to open in 2023. The centres encompass all areas of childcare and early childhood education including infant, toddler, preschool and school age children. Recently the VELC opened the Asquith and Pike Lake ‘before and after school’ programs, at the local schools. Day camps for school age children are available during some school breaks and summer.
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The centres employ local people from each community and offer paid training to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Education. The centres have their own unique culture that embraces the lifestyle of rural Saskatchewan. Many of the families are from farms and ranches therefore the children learn and experience everything that comes with farming, from growing plants to raising cows and horses. Each community has a rink that many children spend countless hours at in the winter months. The centres also have access to the local school, and of course the spectacular prairie sunrises !
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