New Head Start Facility a ‘Community Treasure’
By: R.J. Cohn
Editor
If stepping up to the plate to do the right thing is part of the tightly-woven fabric of Boundary County, then the new Julien Bucher Early Learning Center is a testament to a community that dug deep into its pockets for a facility that will enrich preschoolers for generations.
More than a year after Bucher died in a farming accident, his name and the passion he had for Boundary County will live on in the 3,000-square foot Head Start building bearing his name.
Thanks to a community fundraiser that brought in $70,000 and an acre of land donated to Head Start by Boundary County Commissioners, preschoolers will no longer have to shuffle into a poorly insulated makeshift room at the Fairgrounds that served as a food service and restroom facility.
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