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Article: Special-needs day care to end along with other Arc programs.(City/Region)(With donations down, the nonprofit agency is laying off 15 employees)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2009
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Byline: Shelby Martin The Register-Guard
At the YMCA on a recent afternoon, Jason Cannon watched a small boy in goggles doing barrel-rolls in the swimming pool.
"That's Ben - he's been coming here every day since this summer," Cannon said. The boy has a single dad who works full-time, Cannon explained. "I don't know what he's going to do."
On this day, Cannon was supervising Ben and other children with developmental disabilities in an after-school program run by the Arc of Lane County. But citing monetary woes, the Arc plans to soon end its after-school care, as well as a life skills program for disabled adults. Last week, the nonprofit agency ...