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New Preschool & Childcare Center Coming

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There are many among us who are living proof of the impact and influence teachers have on our lives, perhaps none so much as Ashley Layne of Coloma. Ashley actually spent her last two years of high school in the Cadet Teacher and Early Childhood CTE Programs at Coloma High School. Her instructor, Mrs. Haley, gave her the educational foundation she is now using as the baseline to open her own pre-school and childcare center in her own hometown.

This Friday and Saturday, Ashley and her colleagues will swing open the doors onto her new Laugh N' Learn Preschool & Childcare Center at 7048 Curtis Drive in Coloma for an Open House. Ashley's strong background in Early Childhood education stems from that great start with Mrs. Haley and others who helped her discover her own passion for working with young children.

She has spent significant time volunteering in elementary classrooms and earned experience as a lead teacher. Her lifelong dream has been to open her own facility, and with the tri-city area of Coloma, Watervliet and Hartford showing very limited access to a preschool and childcare center, she found her niche. That region has relied largely on home-based daycare options unless they were engaged in a Head Start Program or through an elementary school.

Ashley is hopeful that the new Laugh N' Learn Preschool & Childcare Center will fill a void in the community as she hopes to make a significant difference in the community where she, herself, was raised.

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She consulted her good friend Anita Skaggs, who has joined as part owner and they are now introducing the center this weekend with an Open House slated for Friday, May 20th from 6pm to 8pm and Saturday, May 21st, from 11am until 1pm. Both women studied Early Childhood Education at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor.

The new Laugh N' Learn center will feature a school age summer program, before and after school care, daily help with homework, a large, fenced-in playground, preschool programs for infants and toddlers, individualized age-appropriate curriculum, affordable rates and more in a secure, safe, nurturing environment. 

Staff members at Laugh N' Learn are CPR and First Aid Certified, and the center will be open every Monday through Friday from 6am until 6pm. Pre-registration will be available during the Open House at half-off of the regular registration pricing.

The new center is tentatively set to officially open on June 13th, and can be reached by phone at 269-202-6090, or check on Facebook and through their website by clicking this link:  http://www.LaughNLearnChildcare.net  

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