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By Michele Smith
The Times 

Starbuck kids to have lunch five days a week until the end of the school year

 

October 10, 2019

Lane Gwinn

On Thursday, Oct 3rd John Begley presented a check from Columbia Pulp LLC's Sponsorship and Donations committee for $1000 to Kevin Gravis from the Starbuck School District This donation was given to help make up a $1,500 shortfall in the fundraising needed to provide lunches four days a week for the entire school year. All donations will go to Starbuck School District in care of School lunch program.

STARBUCK-With generous donations from Columbia Pulp and the Blue Mountain Community Foundation, the Starbuck School District is now able to provide 37 K-8 graders with lunches, five days a week, until the end of the school year, according to Martha Lanman Columbia County Public Health Director.

A donation of $1,000 from Columbia Pulp and another $5,000 from the Blue Mountain Community Foundation will more than meet the original request, which was for $1500 to provide lunches four days a week.

The lunches are prepared by the Dietary Staff at Dayton General Hospital and they meet school nutrition requirements, she said.

Lanman said the public health department is assisting with research into future lunch program requirements and lunch program deadlines, to create a fully funded school lunch program.

Thanks, also, to a generous grant from REA, the kitchen will undergo some necessary repairs, and the school and community will have a certified kitchen available sometime during this school year, she said.

 

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