By C.J. Hirschfield
Editor’s
note: On April 20, Children’s Fairyland will host Head Start Day for Oakland
Head Start children and their families. We’re grateful for support from Rogers Family Foundation, City of Oakland Head Start and – for chartered bus
transportation – the Quest Foundation. To give you an idea of what Head Start
Day is like, we’re republishing this column from 2011.
Last Friday we welcomed more than
2,000 Head Start kids and their family members. We were part of their Week of
the Young Child Traffic, Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Fair in Oakland.
And what a day it was.
When we saw the line stretching
for blocks just before opening time, we knew that, contrary to our predictions,
everyone was going to arrive at once. But Team Fairyland was ready.
