Sunny Days After School
Serving the Matthews-Mint Hill area since 1991
The way we speak to our children becomes their inner voice.
Peggy O'Mara
Meet Our Staff
"Children have more need of models than of critics." -Joseph Joubert
Amy Guion - director
Mrs. Amy earned a Bachelor's
degree in Early Childhood
Education from The University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. She
was a classroom teacher with
CMS prior to opening
Sunny Days in 1991.
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Amy moved to Charlotte from
her hometown of Flat Rock, NC
in 1983.
Amy and Mark have been married since 1984. They have two adult sons, Payton and Garrett.
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Mark Guion - accountant +
Mr. Mark attended East
Carolina University before
graduating from The
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte with a
Bachelor's degree in
Business Administration. He
worked as an internal
auditor with Royal Insurance
prior to Sunny Days.
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Mark is a native Charlottean who has survived being married to Amy since 1984. Along with their two sons, they also have an English Bull Terrier named Tank, and a mixed breed rescue puppy named Callie.
Pam Mullican- group leader
Mrs. Pam earned a Bachelor's degree
in Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma
State University, then moved to Florida
for a job with the Department of Energy.
She moved to Matthews in 1988.
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She is a lifelong Girl Scout who began
volunteering as an assistant leader in
college, and continued to volunteer until helping with the troops her girls joined. Mrs. Pam and her husband have three daughters and one son.
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Mrs. Pam has been teaching preschool at First Baptist Church-Matthews for eleven years. She began working at Sunny Days in 2017.
Patti Pilsy- group leader
Mrs. Patti was born and raised in
Malvern, PA. She lived in Chicago,
Florida, and Colorado before settling in
North Carolina in 2003.
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Mrs. Patti has been in childcare for 19
years. She has been a nanny for 10 years,
has worked in preschool with all ages, and
has been at Sunny Days since 2016. She loves working with
children because it keeps her young at heart.
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Mrs. Patti and her husband have been married 25 years. They have twin sons who are 24.
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Summer staff 2024: Mrs. Amy, Mrs. Kim, Mrs. Pam, Mrs. Patti, Ms. Hannah, Ms. Kaitlyn, Ms, Abigayle, Ms, Ella, Ms. Caroline