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March:
Ladybug
Learning Club Christian Preschool: Do you struggle to get
your child to go play outside? At Ladybug Learning Club Christian Preschool,
children are given the opportunity to experience a fun outdoor environment
while developing social skills along with enhancing their large motor
skills. All things that owner and founder, Jenifer Merriam says are
essential to have prior to entering a primary classroom.
“That sets us totally apart from a lot of preschools,” said
Jenifer Merriam. “We try to be very hands-on and let the children
actually experience things.” On this newly enhanced playground,
children at Ladybug can build a big castle, plant flowers in the garden
area, and build structures with a variety of items including PVC pipe,
Styrofoam, etc. There’s a climbing wall, an extra wide slide and
a tire swing. There is also an art area with easels and tricycles to
ride around a newly poured sidewalk.
“What’s really neat is that if you go to our outdoor classroom,
all the children are engaged in something,” Merriam said. “There’s
something to capture all of their interests.”
Besides having fun at recess, they are developing skills such as measuring,
problem solving, and sharing, which Merriam points out, are foundations
for higher learning. “There’s so much research that goes into
why it’s important for kids to be outside, especially in the preschool
age.”
Merriam started this preschool in 2003 in her home. Now she has 130
students and 11 teachers (all with degrees), and they utilize six classrooms
at New Hope Community Church. “I enjoy working with 3-, 4- and
5-year olds, because you’re their first teacher. You’re their
first taste of school and you get to give them that first impression,”
Merriam said, “which I feel is a very honorable position to be
in.”
The preschool also offers parent seminars, where they talk about topics
such as what is developmentally appropriate for their children to be
learning. There’s even a summer camp program for 3- to 8-year olds.
If you are wondering when to start looking into a preschool, the answer
is: NOW. Ladybug Learning is currently enrolling new students. Merriam
gives tours of her facility on Tuesdays from 9:30-10:00 a.m. and by
appointment.
“Feel free to come by and visit our school. Ask lots of questions,
because if you wait until June, July, August, most of the time the spots
will have already been filled,” Merriam stresses. For more information,
visit www.ladybuglearningclub.com
or call 480-229-5809.
Green Systems : Envision your dream yard.
Maybe you see a perfectly cultivated garden, everything symmetrical
and in its proper place. Or maybe you prefer a more relaxed atmosphere
– vines lazily climbing a trellis, roses popping out wherever they
please.
Of course, dream yards require work. But thanks to Green Systems Landscape,
that work can be done by somebody else.
Gary Krauser, owner of Green Systems Landscape, loves his job. What
started six years ago as a Saturday job with his brother to earn some
extra money quickly took on a life of its own.
“We both had full-time jobs,” Krauser said of he and his brother.
“I ended up quitting mine as an auditor for a collection agency
and just doing this full time.”
Now he owns and runs the full service landscape company with his wife,
specializing in both commercial maintenance and residential installs.
He clearly does not regret it.
“I really enjoy being outside and I enjoy working with plants and
just seeing the change that adding new landscape can make to a house,”
Krauser said.
We all have an idea of what we would like our yard to look like; sometimes
we need a little help bringing that hazy vision into focus and making
it a reality. Green Systems is great for people who know what they want,
but just are not sure how to get there.
“We’ll go in and we’ll either redo a current landscape
or we’ll just add some new plants to a new building,” Krauser
said. “We have a designer that does work for us, so people come
to us wanting stuff designed and we take care of it.
“They know what they want,” Krauser sums up. “We do the
legwork.”
Between their services and their prices, Green Systems Landscape completely
caters to you – the average family. Krauser is the one you primarily
will deal with. He makes the plans with you, and carries them back to
his employees. He has two crews, and clients are always appreciative
that they can communicate easily with other employees when Krauser isn’t
there.
“We’re just really easy to work with,” Krauser said.
Most of the company’s business is generated from referrals, probably
because their reputation has been built on the fact that they are easy
to deal with, they show up when they say they will, and they get the
plans done when you want them done.
“I can’t think of any unhappy people that we have had,”
Krauser said.
With spring specials and discounts on residential installs coming up,
now is a great time to call and make your dream yard a reality. Leave
the blood, sweat and tears to the professionals.
Call Gary Krauser at 480-330-4745 for more information.
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Past
Spotlights:
September
Russ Lyon Realty Co.
Leap of Faith Dance
October
Earnhardt RV.
November
Treasures from the Past
Elements of Home Flooring
December
Vortex Sensory Rehabilitation
Rocky Mountain Window & Door
January
Interiors by Decorating Den
IRIS Centers
Paws at Home
Payne & Sons
February
Master Turners Martial Arts
Century 21 - Kathy Butts
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