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Mornings are easier for hundreds of parents and their school-age children in Boulder Creek.

Established in 1968, Scotts Valley's Baymonte Christian School is an independent, interdenominational Christian school for children ranging from preschool through eighth grades. It also runs three day care centers: one at the main Granite Creek Road campus, Baymonte Christian Preschool Too on Scotts Valley Drive and another one on Bethany Drive. In addition to the existing preschool for students between the ages of 2-years, 6-months old through kindergarten, they just opened an infant-care center.“We consulted Santa Cruz County's Children Development Resource Center before committing to open the infant-care” said Steve Patterson, Baymonte's principal. “Apparently there's a vast shortage of infant-care services, they encouraged us to have 35-beds facility, but we decided to go with just an 8-bed license for now, to see how it goes. We do mostly care about the quality of care” he said. The infant-care center will accept 2-month-olds that will stay at the upstairs unit until they're potty-trained and ready to move to the daycare unit downstairs, which accommodates up to12 toddlers.The bad news for those interested is that both units are already full, and there's a waiting list. At the opening ceremony last week, combined with the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer, city dignitaries mixed with chamber of commerce members, teachers and parents. It culminated in the perfect-PR ribbon-cutting photo, with all yelling “Babies!” in unison.

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