Suky’s Daycare

Local center celebrates a year at second location

MOSES LAKE — It was 23 years ago when Suced Yusso started a daycare business in her home. “I always had a dream to open a center,” Yusso said through a translator, Jose Ureste, Associate Pastor at the Warden Assembly. “My husband thought I was crazy, but it was a dream that I had.” As Yusso speaks, Ureste’s four-year-old daughter Sofia sits at a table playing. It’s the end of a long day, and she’s the last child in the center. After getting a college degree and a lot of hard work, Yusso now has two Suky’s Learning Centers — an initial location at 414 Buress Ave. and a second location she opened a year ago at 900 E. Nelson Road in the offices of a former chiropractic clinic — and managed to keep the first location going in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic while she looked at that second building and dreamed. To keep the business going during the pandemic, Yusso said she and her husband borrowed from his 401(k) because they weren’t eligible for aid and couldn’t get a business loan...