BOARDMAN A new food-sealing machine will help the food service department of the Boardman School District serve fresh meals to students.
Awarded by the national No Kid Hungry charity, the district was provided with $20,000, the district announced.
“With this new process, we will produce a meal with a smaller container that still contains the same amount of food as we had been serving, but with less packaging,” Natalie Winkle, food services director, said.
“It will make the ready-to-heat meal easier to store in the refrigerator for parents at home, and easier to pack for our staff,” she said.
Since the district’s first day of school on Sept. 14, Boardman’s food service department has served more than 187,000 meals to both in-person and remote students. The equipment will seal 30 meals per minute.
People hold signs and rally Monday outside Boardman High School in support of a student who reportedly had a paper stapled to his hair or head last month at Boardman Center Intermediate School. The aide who was accused in the incident has since resigned.
Staff photo / Ashley Fox
BOARDMAN In the hour leading to the Boardman Board of Education meeting Monday, about 50 people rallied outside in support of a student who reportedly had a note about a water bottle stapled to his person by an aide.
By 5 p.m., about 250 cases of water were on hand, donated by district families as well as people from outside the area.
BOARDMAN School district staff and volunteers have worked together this year to ensure no student goes hungry during the ongoing pandemic.
The Food Service Department of Boardman School District on Wednesday had its final food giveaway for 2020. Roughly 200 sets of seven breakfasts and seven lunches were handed out to struggling families.
“We have done this every week since school started,” food service director Natalie Winkle said. “We also held it from March through June of this year.”
Winkle said the program was put together by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its main objective was to ensure that every child had something to eat, and that the child would eat for free. To meet that goal, Winkle said the USDA reimburses food services that help provide healthy breakfasts and lunches for the children.