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Who will speak about her upcoming book

Remember My Soul

mysteries of the soul and afterlife.

Ms. Palatnik has an engaging personality and is known for her
charm and wit. She has hosted a Canadian television programs
and is a frequent guest on radio talk shows.

Please join us in welcoming Lori

Sunday, February 22nd from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center

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about the cost of the program.
But other parents are deciding the
program is worth the price.
Ellen Berlin originally got off the
ast spring, when the Jewish
infant-toddler wait list, in part because
Community Center
of the tuition increase, but ended up
announced that it would
enrolling her daughter at the JCC
raise infant-toddler care fees
after all.
to $975 per month, the program
"Cost was originally the reason I
boasted a wait list of 129 children.
took her name off the list, but then I
Now, five • months since the new
rates went into effect — and the JCC's had some problems with my other day
program became the most expensive in care situation," she said. "Cost is still
an issue, but sometimes you have to
metropolitan Detroit — the
make some changes in your
number of hopefuls on the list
A six-m onth-old
life. I'm.very happy at the
has plummeted to 20.
plays a t the JCC's JCC and the care is phe-
Disenchanted parents
infant- toddler
nomenal."
attribute the decline to price
m.
progra
Child Development Center
sensitivity, speculating that the
(CDC) Director Fredelle
JCC is being abandoned for
Schneider said the wait list has shrunk
less-expensive day care options. The
not from lack of interest, but because
head of the program, on the other
the procedure has been made more
hand, claims greater efficiency in the
efficient. In the past, parents — think-
system has whittled down the list.
ing that the wait was two years long
One parent, who asked that her
— put their names on the list just in
name not be used, said she is "actively
case their alternate child care arrange-
looking elsewhere," but she is still in
ments fell through.
the program. "They're not listening to
"Now we require more of a com-
the parents, and in the long run
mitment," said Schneider, explaining
they're going to lose out," she said.
that parents must make a deposit of
Parents complained last spring

JULIE WIENER
Sta Writer

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