Parents seeking information about licensed child care have a new resource.

The state has a new Department of Early Learning licensed child care information system. To view it, go online to http://www.del. wa.gov/ccel/index. shtml, scroll down and click on Online Services, then click on Licensed Child Care Information System.

Rachael Langen, director of the Division of Child Care and Early Learning, said the new agency will consolidate child-care and early-learning programs scattered through several agencies.

The information system will include:

* A search engine allowing faster and more accurate searches for child care;

* Contact information about licensed care providers;

* A toll-free telephone number for state early-learning officials;

* Complaint history about valid and inconclusive complaints since July 24, 2005;

* The number and age range of children for whom each provider may provide care.

Let us know about Sweet 16 birthdays

If you’re a mother who will soon celebrate your first daughter’s 16th birthday, Herald reporter Yoshiaki Nohara wants to hear from you. E-mail him at ynohara@heraldnet. com.

Free waterfront concert tonight

Seattle’s 10-piece soul ensemble DoctorfunK will perform at 6:30 tonight at Port Gardner Landing, 1600 W. Marine View Drive, Everett.

The performance is part of the Everett Music in the Parks series.

Daughters of Norway to gather

Members of Stanwood’s Ingeborg Lodge No. 43 will attend a Daughters of Norway national convention July 13-15 at Embassy Suites in Lynnwood.

Tove Van der Maas, grand lodge president; Mandie Deeter, cultural director of Ingeborg Lodge; and Gundred Berg of Thelma Lodge in Everett, all lived in Oslo during World War II and the Nazi occupation.

The keynote speaker is Linda Lawrence Hunt, author of “Bold Spirit – Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America.”

For more information, visit www. daughtersofnorway.org.

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