ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, May 5, 1996                    TAG: 9605060134
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: A-1  EDITION: METRO 

GIVING DAY CARE A SPIN

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ROGER HART Staff. Kids keep the playground equipment 
          busy Friday at Country Bear Day School in southwest Roanoke County. 
          The school has quadrupled enrollment and expanded twice since 1988. 
          A Census Bureau report showed that the proportion of preschoolers 
          whose mothers worked and who were cared for in day-care centers 
          jumped from 23 percent to 30 percent. Story on B1. color.