Moosomin Thrift Store commits $15,000 to daycare
February 3, 2025, 2:32 pm
Nicole Taylor
On Thursday, January 23, Moosomin Thrift Store presented a $15,000 cheque to the Playfair Daycare planning committee for the construction of a second daycare facility in Moosomin.
“We are donating $5,000 each year for three years. This fits in with our whole mandate of helping children, helping families, and this plays into what the food share is all about,” says Lori Shepherd with the Thrift Store.
“We’ve been hearing the alarm bells ringing for a while now, the community is in dire need of daycare. We need it for the whole region,” said Jonathan Pearce with Moosomin Thrift Store.
“This is huge, we are not going to be able to get it built without the community, so it’s amazing to see,” said Jill Jones with The Daycare Committee. “We are probably just over that $200,000 point. It is awesome! Little by little, we’ll get there.”
Play Fair Daycare has been approved for a second building with 90 new spots. The new daycare building will be located on the south side of the MacLeod School grounds, on Gertie Street.
The daycare is looking to fundraise about $1.5 million—approximately one-third of the cost of the $4.4 million project.
The daycare has received $1 million from the provincial government as a startup grant for the project.
