Com mun ity
DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff'Writer
A
fter months of moving walls,
laying carpet, installing kid-
size bathroom fixtures and
completing all the other
details needed for a fully accredited pre-
school, the $4 million expansion of the
Sarah and Irving Pitt Child
Development Center opened for busi-
ness Aug. 28.
Located at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield, the Pitt
Center offers day care and preschool
education for infants through kinder-
gartners.
"It's gorgeous," said Stephanie Kaplan
of Commerce Township, whose daugh-
ter Ashley, 3, is beginning her second
year at the center. "It's kid-friendly,
pleasant to look at — and you don't
have to traipse through the entire Jewish
Center to get there any more."
Ryan Tokowitz of West Bloomfield,
3 1 /2, is the youngest in a family that has
been involved with the JCC's preschool
for eight years. His father, Mitchell, said
the new
_. facility is "clean, well-organized
and very conducive to child develop-
ment."
The Mizrachi family moved to West
Bloomfield from Israel this summer. Son
Amit, who will soon celebrate his fourth
birthday, has made an excellent adjust-
ment to the Pitt Center.
"It's only been three days," said his
mother, Hilah, last week. "But he likes it
very much." ❑
First
nay
Parents agree the Pitt Center
renovations were worth the wait.
Ashley Kaplan, 3, of Commerce Township enjoys her snack of crackers
and juice during opening day at the expanded Pitt Center
Left:
Elizabeth
Le Trudet of
Wixom p icks
up her son
Natthan, 3.
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Rosalie Fox picks up her grandson Adam
Fox, 2, of Commerce Township after the
Pitt Center's first day of classes.
Jacob Bowser, Pk, of West Bloomfield inspects the
world through the door of his new classroom at the
Pitt Center.
Making play dough cookies are 5-year-olds Brittany Murray of
Farmington Hills; Yuta Ito of West Bloomfield; Jake Feinbaum of
West Bloomfield; Rachel Zack of Walled Lake; and Samantha
Murray of Farmington Hills. All are in Shirley Davis' kindergarten
class at Pitt Center