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Gordon Weeks
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Between March 16 and July 6, the
Shelton School District served 57,000
breakfasts and lunches to students
made homebound by the coronavirus.
The schOol year is over, but Shelton
is among the Mason County school dis—
tricts that continue to offer meals to
families in need during the summer.
All children ages 18 and younger
in the Shelton School District can re-
ceive free “grab and go” breakfasts and
lunches between 10:30 a.m. andnoon
weekdays through Aug. 31 at Shelton
High School and Evergreen Elemen—
tary School.
Everyone is asked to. stay in the
vehicle as staff members deliver the
meals. Students must be present to
receive meals per children nutrition .
guidelines, or have a signed waiver
with the parent signature to pick up
meals. Meals are limited to one break-
fast and one lunch per child per day.
The district is serving about 200
breakfasts and 200 lunches each week-
day, Kathryn Ward, the district’s direc-
tor of food services, wrote in an email
to the SheltonlMason County Journal.
“At our highest, we served around
900 breakfasts and lunches on a given
day — 1,800 total — and had five sites
operating additional bus routes,” she
wrote. “The numbers were higher when
we were having homework packets
picked up at sites on Mondays. There
has not been much change in clientele,
and most people have become familiar
to us that we think of them as family.”
NORTH MASON
All children ages 18 and younger in
the North Mason School District are
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Haney Nutt, who works for the food service program at Olympic Middle
School in Shelton, serves grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches Tuesday
outside Shelton High School. All children ages 18 and younger in the dis-
trict are eligible for the meals distributed between 10:30 a.m. and noon
weekdays through Aug. 31 at the high school and Evergreen Elementary
School. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
eligible to receive five days worth of
breakfasts and lunches to be picked
up between 10 a.m. and noon Wednes-
days through Aug. 19 at Belfair Ele-
mentary School, 22900 state Route 3.
The childrep do not need to be pres-
ent to pick up the meals parents,
caregivers or siblings can pick them
up for the household. Perishable items
need to be consumed soon or placed in
a refrigerator.
For more information, call the'
school district at 360-277-2300.
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vided meals on weekdays .to students
from March 18 through June 19.
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this program through the summer
months, since a summer meal pro-
gram was not a past practice of this
school district,” Superintendent Kurt
Hilyard wrote an email to the Jour-
nal. He added, “I assume we will pick
up a meal delivery program, in some
format, once school begins in Septem-
ber.”
HOOD CANAL
The Hood Canal School District
partnered with the Hood Canal Food
Bank to provide food to Hood Canal
students and their immediate fami-
lies from 10 a.m. to noon and 6 to 7
pm. the second and fourth Thursday
of each month in front of the school.
An application for the program is
lping families with food
available at the district’s website un-
der the heading “Summer Food Pick
Up.”
SOUTHSIDE
The Southside School District is
part ‘of the Shelton School District’s
food service in a cooperative agree-
ment, said Superintendent Doris Bo-
lender.
“The food was made available to all
our families in our area with school-
age children,” she wrote in an email to
the Journal. “I heard from our families
that they appreciate the locations of
the offerings and did not have anyone
contact the school with any concerns
regarding food service options. We did
notify all of the Southside families of
the options available to them through
our Food Co-op program.”
PIONEER .
The Pioneer School District’s sum-
mer food program was launched on
Monday. Families can pick up five
days of breakfasts and lunches from
10:30 a.m. to noon Mondays outside
Pioneer Elementary School.
Families are encouraged to sign up
at the district’s website or by calling
the districtoffice at 360-426-9115.
Between March 18 and June 19, the
Pioneer School District served 10,373
breakfasts and lunches to children us-
ing school buses and support staff.
The district is also promoting the
Pandemic-EBT Program so families
that qualify for free or reduced price
meals can receive additional assis-
tance for their children.
For more information, go to dshs.
wa.gov and type “Washington fami-
lies get help to buy food” in the search
bar.
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