Mold forces emergency closing of preschool

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Mold forces emergency closing of preschool

40 students moved to another site

KeysNet - Tavernier,Florida*

By LARRY KAHN

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Posted - Tuesday, September 30, 2008

http://www.keysnet.com/news/story/25798.html

High levels of mold have been found at the Frederick s

Child Development Center in Key West, forcing the 40 students there

to be moved to another school.

The center, at 103 Olivia St., is operated by Wesley House Family

Services.

Wesley House Chief Executive Officer Doug Blomberg says " we were

doing some testing " and the results that came in Friday forced the

closure.

A " remediation " plan will now be developed -- and that could mean

something as small as " cleaning the surfaces " or completely " redoing

the building, " Blomberg says.

In the meantime, the 40 students, who range from infant to age 5,

have been moved to the Inez Child Development Center at 1100

Varela St. That Wesley House center has just recently been renovated.

" Inez will have about 100 students now, " Blomberg says. " And it's

capable of handling beyond that because we just renovated the Inez

facility. And we moved the teachers over from s. "

The s center will be closed " for an undetermined period of

time. "