It was apropos that the retired Okanagan College (OC) instructor who spearheaded a dream of building an on-campus daycare centre at the Vernon branch was handing out sunflowers at the public launch of the Sunflower Campaign.
Lloyd Davies, who taught at OC Vernon for 15 years, was manning the sunflower table at the Plant A Seed Day launch of the Sunflower Daycare Centre campaign Wednesday, May 10. Davies and his wife, Janet Armstrong, opened the campaign with a donation of $500,000.
“I always found, many times as an instructor, students couldn’t get to an exam or an assignment because they would have problems getting childcare,” said Davies. “It was an on-going problem. I always asked during meetings when a childcare centre would be added to the campus, and was always told, ‘it’s in the plans.’ So when I retired, my wife and I decided to make a splash and kickstart …