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Uptown's First Presbyterian Church's daycare program will reopen Wednesday after a broken furnace forced it to close all day today.
The program on West Trade Street is one of the uptown area's largest child development centers, serving 200 families who scrambled for child care when the center closed this morning because there was no heat.
By 4:45 p.m., workmen had repaired and tested the furnace and church officials deemed the center ready to reopen, said church spokeswoman Kathleen Conroy.
"We have the heat functioning in the child development center and we're ready to go tomorrow," Conroy said. "State law says the temperature has to be at a certain level, and it is now at that level and staying there." The Child Development Center operates full-day daycare service for children from the age of 8 1/2 weeks to 5 years.
First Presbyterian's Weekday School is in a different building and had heat, Conroy said. That program is operated as normal.
