Beth Beecher’s two sons wait all year for summer to come along, just so they can go to Montreal West’s day camp. “It fits with our budget, it fits with our lifestyle and yesterday we were informed that they’re not opening the camps for the summer,” she said.
Beecher says the cancellation is disappointing for her and her sons, but it’s also left her scrambling for other options. “The only alternative, other than bringing the kids to work, which is really the nine times out of 10 what happens, is to cheaply employ a high schooler with this as our budget.
This is what we got, what can you do with it,” said Beecher. Nearly two weeks ago, the provincial government announced day camps would be allowed to operate this summer amid the coronavirus