Looking for a summer option for your youngsters that can double as a day care of sorts?

The Boys & Girls Club of Manteca-Lathrop is offering a solution.

It is conducting a Sunrise Program Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.  The hours dovetail into the normal summer hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Children must be a club member. That costs $24 a year. membership is open to youth from age 6 to 18

The program is $15 a day or $50 a week per child for the Sunrise Program.

The cost covers breakfast, lunch, daily snack arts & crafts, physical education, cultural enrichment, and more under trained adult and professional staff supervision.

The program was added at the request of a number of working parents that were looking for supervision for their children during the summer before the club opens for its normal hours.

When school is in session the club hours are 3 to 8 p.m. at the main site at 545 W. Alameda St. and 3 to 7 p.m. at the Lathrop School site. On school year holidays, the hours are 10 a.m.to 6 p.m.

During the school year the club offers homework assistance, computers for doing school work, and various character building programs. It also offers a variety of recreation games, sports leagues, arts classes, or simply a safe place to spend time with friends.

For more information, call the club at 239-KIDS.