The ForestKids Early Learning Centre in Hammonds Plains is still behind an evacuation zone. The child-care facility, which aims to foster a love of the outdoors among children, has 82 kids enrolled.
A photo showing the daycare before and after the wildfire swept through the subdivision in Hammonds Plains.In the meantime, some kids and their parents have been gathering at a Bedford park to support each other.“Yesterday, there were at least, I don’t know, 14 families here with their children,” said Terri Kottwitz, the daycare owner and operator.
“So we all did a cheer together and we had a good talk and a couple of tears and some hugs and parents asking what they can do for us when we get ready to rebuild. So it’s definitely a ForestKids community for sure.”Terri is especially touched by the empathy shown by her young students.