Mid-City daycare operator does double duty with food bank

The sounds of 26 children clapping their hands, stomping their feet and laughing as they recite numbers are barely audible outside the house, where a growing line of subdued adults waits patiently for the food bank to open. Tommye Lambert, owner and operator of Tommye's Tiny Tots Daycare Center, is the link between these opposite worlds.

It's a Friday morning, and a bustling hive of activity has taken over the Mid-City day-care center. Parents drop off their children, some bouncing into the room full of energy; others sleepy and tearful and in need of Lambert's soothing embrace before they too are intoxicated by the infectious laughter that fills the rooms.

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