A final reminder for those of you in the Griswold area: you have until Dec. 30^th to fill out an online Child Care Center Survey. (http:www.quia.com/sv/891022.html) Steve Baier, one of the organizers of the effort to get people participating in the survey, said families with young children in the Griswold area are being asked to fill-out the survey to gauge the need for child care. The initiative was made possible, thanks to a gift of $65,000 from the Noble Center Church, which is disbanding.

Those funds are being matched by Griswold Communications.

An Ad-Hoc committee was established to govern the project, which is expected to be run by a non-profit organization.

The survey may be answered anonymously, with names being optional. Baier says the information they’ve received so far from this survey and others, has been very useful.

He said about two-thirds of the respondants so far said they would use a non-profit run child care center, if it were offered. The deadline to fill-out the survey, which takes about 10-to 15-minutes, is December 30th. It asks you very basic questions, and some that are time-specific.

If you have questions or would like to complete a survey, but do not have internet access, call Steve or Barb Baier at 712-778-4452. The next step, after the results are compiled, is to find a facility to lease rather than build something new, with the hope of having ready by next summer, and a fee structure that would not be a burden on working families. In the meantime, organizers will be writing grant applications and looking for financial partners. They will also accept donations.