By TJ
Photo: WAPS School nutrition staff (Winona Area Public Schools)
WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-Winona Area Public Schools will continue to distribute free breakfast and lunch to local students throughout the summer.
Communications Coordinator John Casper said the district has distributed over 400,000 meals since the program began in March of last year. He said that’s a credit to the district’s nutrition staff for problem-solving for the past year-plus.
Casper said the district has continued free meal distribution throughout the school year.
Meals throughout the summer will be distributed at Goodview and St. Stan’s elementary schools, the Winona Middle and High Schools, and the Winona Area Learning Center. The summer lunch bus will move to the Bob Welch Aquatic Center due to construction at the library.
The number of new cases of COVID-19 among Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) staff and students decreased this week. The number of students and staff going into quarantine also declined.
Between April 29 and May 5, five new cases of COVID-19 were reported among WAPS students and staff, down from seven the previous week. There were also 77 staff members and students who went into quarantine between April 29 and May 5, representing a decrease from 123 the week prior.
“These cases were from a community spread, which is what we’re finding when we do have positive cases in,” Superintendent Annette Freiheit said at the School Board’s May 6 meeting. “Our students that are getting this are actually very asymptomatic and come to school, and then start to show symptoms and end up getting tested.”