Kids Rock!
By Mavis FodnessNovember 12, 2025After an 18-year absence, Sue Stroh and Kiesli Smith are back together again. This time the two work together at the Kids Rock! Child Care Center in Luverne. Stroh cares for infants, and Smith works with school-aged children. The last time the two were together was when Smith was an infant in Stroh’s in-home day care in Luverne which Stroh operated for 53 years. For five of those years, she…
September 24, 2025Luverne High School Homecoming Royalty visited the Kids Rock! Child Care Center Friday morning before settling in for a game of bingo with residents at the Good Samaritan — Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne. The students were invited to stop at each location before returning to the high school, where an afternoon pep fest took place. Kids Rock! Director Sara Robinson said the children were in awe…- By Lori SorensonJune 11, 2025The Kids Rock! Child Care Center in Luverne received a $60,000 gift, thanks to two local banks who applied for grant funding through Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines. Minnwest Bank and First Farmers & Merchants Bank received grants through FHLB that will be used for operation support for the Kids Rock! Child Care Center Inc. The funds will be used to buy additional supplies, toys,…
- May 21, 2025We have a reputation here in Rock County of working together to solve complicated problems. This collaborative spirit — especially among local leaders and private enterprise — has put us on the map numerous times for many reasons. Thirty years ago, for example, Rock County emerged as a leader in the state when our planning and zoning commission adopted its own feedlot ordinance. It was 1995,…
By Lori SorensonApril 23, 2025U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith stopped in Luverne Wednesday, April 16, to celebrate the completion for the Kids Rock! Child Care Center. The senators were instrumental in securing a $2.6 million USDA grant for the facility’s construction, and Wednesday was a chance for them to see how the investment was put to use. After touring the interior, they paused in the lobby to congratulate…- By Lori SorensonMay 22, 2024Luverne’s Kids Rock! Child Care Center has been awarded a $250,000 grant through the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Luverne’s facility, scheduled to open next spring, is among more than 20 organizations to receive grant funding to expand child care access statewide. Governor Tim Walz last week announced $6.2 million in Child Care Economic Development Grants…
By Lori SorensonJanuary 24, 2024Luverne’s future Kids Rock! Child Care Center is currently a gutted office building awaiting renovation this spring. Meanwhile, the Kids Rock! non-profit organization that will operate the center took some major steps in the past week with strategic planning of its board. At a Jan. 16 retreat, the group decided on the organization’s function and priorities as it moves into its next phase of…
By Lori SorensonDecember 13, 2023Construction workers are in the process of replacing the roof on the future child care center, which will be established in the renovated former Total Card Inc. building. City leaders decided to re-roof the building before the actual renovation project starts next year, due to the poor condition of the roof and to prevent delays in the renovation project. The city, which owns the building, has…- By Lori SorensonOctober 11, 2023Community fundraising is underway for the Kids Rock! day care center in Luverne, and city leaders have been taking key steps toward a 2024 opening. The city purchased the former Total Card Inc. building on Roundwind Avenue in Luverne and is renovating the 1970s structure to house the community day care facility. Members of Luverne Economic Development Authority reviewed child care center…
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