First Lutheran closing day care

The First Lutheran Daycare and Preschool in Havre will be closing its day care by the end of the summer due to an inability to find workers, a church official said this morning.

First Lutheran Church Pastor Tanner Howard said that after 20 years of providing day care services, a shortage of primary care givers has left them with no choice but to close.

“We are closing the day care not because of money, “ he said, “but we cannot get enough primary care givers.”

Primary care givers have specific certifications and meet the state standards, Howard said, and people with those qual...