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A revitalized storefront near Como Park is browsing with preschoolers these days.
The building at 1503 N. Hamline Ave., merely south of Hoyt Ave., could be the new home of the Como Car park Language and Arts Preschool and Childcare Center. Owners/teachers Laurie Erickson and Nancy Shellum are offering to you year round half day or perhaps full day programs, two to five days a week, for children age range 33 months to five ages.
At right, Nancy Shellum and Laurie Erickson have got moved from St. Anthony Playground to Como Park every time they opened the Como Park Language and Arts Preschool in addition to Childcare Center. (Photo by means of Roger Bergerson)
"We're really excited to begin and gratified with the wedding celebration we've received from our fresh neighbors," Erickson said. "They're thankful to see some activity while in the building. It's become a incredibly lively place."
The site on the northwest corner involving Hamline and Nebraska avenues originally was a grocery store and meat market. Over the years it has housed your barbershop, garage  door repair and assembly shop, the Sally Jessica Gallery and a nursing staff agency. It has been vacant 4 hundred 33 in recent years.
Erickson and Shellum had offered the same preschool program at Street. Anthony Park United Methodist Church, Twenty two hundred Hillside Ave., in the St. Anthony Playground neighborhood, but wanted to broaden their curriculum. They necessary a fenced yard in addition to space for a children's relax area in order to do so, items that weren't available at the community center.
They didn't take possession of 1503 Hamline Avenue. N. until Aug. A single, so with the start of the fresh school year looming, your entrepreneurs felt some tension to get up and running. A change in zoning category was required in order to operate an educational facility on the site, and also city building and shoot inspections.
But the biggest probable roadblock was with the express Department of Human Solutions, where a backlog of license uses was made worse by the local government shutdown this past summer.
Erickson and also Shellum credit state Rep. Alice Hausman (District Sie war wie 66B) and state Sen. Mary Jo McGuire (District 66) for supporting a women of all ages owned business and helping expedite a licensing procedure that could have otherwise taken each year.
"It was nail biting time period," Shellum said of the time period.
With the help of friends and family they were capable to accomplish the necessary remodeling, for example the addition of a bathroom and a breakfast/lunch planning area, and decorating in only three weeks.
Erickson's daughter, Ali, who will probable pursue a career in graphic design, created a logo for the enterprise.
Erickson has a master's degree inside family education and is a qualified early childhood educator, even though Shellum has a degree in Spanish and foreign studies. In addition to their teaching duties, Erickson is answerable to curriculum development and Shellum functions as the center's business manager.
They desire to make maximum use of the large enclosed yard to the north on the building for exercise, along with nearby Como Park. Erickson, an avid gardener, plans to use a story on site to involve little ones in hands on learning, tending and gathering produce for cooking. There will also be language, art, songs and science activities.
They hinkuyskä  81 love the location, across the street by Chelsea Heights Elementary School, which will some of the children from the preschool and childcare center may attend.
Given the late start, the center's initial enrollment will fall short of the goal of 30 individuals. When the enrollment reaches Twenty, Erickson and Shellum plan to Allentown Ronald Woods 45 hire an additional teacher.
As with any start up business, Erickson and Shellum face a lot of work to obtain established. Now that the initial dust has settled, however, "We can cut back to nine hour a short time!" Shellum exclaimed.
  
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