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Jun 7, 2023 8:56 am
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In the ex-theater's, future childcare center's front lobby ...
... and refurbished screening room.
Voices lifted in exuberant song outside a movie theater overlooking Middletown Avenue?
Just a few years ago, a scene like that might have been unthinkable at the scruffy but beloved Cine 4 theater that closed last year after 51 years in operation.
The occasion was a sneak peek of Friends Center Flint Street — named for the pitted drive that leads up to the familiar flat-top white building where a local childcare nonprofit plans to build a new early education campus.
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‘Lights, Camera ... Childcare! Previewed’
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Feb 28, 2023 10:00 am
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Allyx Schiavone at LEAP fundraiser dinner at Taste of China.
When Brittny Barnes had her first baby, child care came with sticker shock.
“ It was like a mortgage,” she told the 20 attendees assembled at Taste of China for a conversation featuring Allyx Schiavone, executive director of the Friends Center for Children and a champion of affordable child care.
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‘Dinner Talk LEAPs Into Child Care Crisis’