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Christine Phillips (left), Montgomery County Head Start Director; Nancy Davis (center), District Head Start Director; and Montgomery County Commission Chairman Charles Truett do the ribbon-cutting honors for the new county Head Start building Wednesday afternoon in Ailey.
March 21-- For 14 years, Christine Phillips has been with the Head Start program in Montgomery County, and Wednesday she and others dedicated a new building located next to the elementary school in Ailey. The $500,000 building replaces a portable classroom and will allow more Montgomery County kids to learn from the Head Start staff. "We are just so happy to have this large facility here. We are just trying to get these children started off and ready for public school. They just enjoy the many activities we have here everyday," she says.
The area coordinator for Head Start is Dianne Nash who says the new building is a major step forward. "We have an extra classroom here which means we can increase our enrollment from 31 to 54," she notes.
The building is a team effort using land donated by the school board, infrastructure from the city of Mount Vernon, labor from county employees, and $30,000 in local share money from the county commission which applied for the state grant to build the facility.

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