More than 100 children and adults attended the event, held at the center’s amphitheater. It was part of an annual summer series launched more than 30 years ago. For the past five, Salmans has been teaching several of the center’s programs.
This animal-loving officer understands that, for many people, fear is connected to the species he displayed and discussed.
Meadors said the YMCA of Greater Kansas City, which runs after-school programs at dozens of sites across the metro area, was forced to drop some locations in Olathe. That led the Olathe School District last year to ask the city to take over the program in those schools. “They invited us to come in, and we chose to start with one school,” he said.The program specialists will coordinate games, clubs and other activities before school (7 a.m. to 8:20 a.m.) and after school (3:40 p.m. to 6 p.m.) at each school building during the school year and work with the city’s existing summer camp programs when school is out. The city’s camp and out-of-school programs are already licensed by the state.
Meadors stressed that the specialists will be funded through user fees. The exact costs to parents depend on the number of children they are enrolling and whether the students are attending the program every day or only part of the week. For a single student attending four or five days a week, before-school care will cost $33 a week, after-school care will cost $69 a week and attending both will cost $88 a week.
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