JOHN DAY — Students within Grant School District will be treated to locally grown beef on the menu during lunchtime.
The district is restarting a program called Ranchers Feeding Students which sees local ranchers donate a cow to a school district which is slaughtered and processed before being served to kids during lunch. Meals which feature locally grown beef will be advertised as such on the days in which they are served.
While the cattle are donated and cost the district no money, processing the beef is not free of charge. Costs associated with the slaughter, cutting and wrapping of the beef are covered by Farmers Ending Hunger, which has been providing the service to schools participating in the Ranchers Feeding Students program since 2007.
The students and teachers at Dayville School did not expect to start their school day facing off with an errant bull, but that’s what happened when Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley responded to the scene.
McKinley said he responded to a report of the bull chasing kids and teachers as students were getting off the bus Thursday morning in the school parking lot. He said the bull, a 900 to 1,000 pound animal with seven-inch horns, was eventually cornered and was put down in an area away and out of eyesight from the children.
The students and teachers at Dayville School did not expect to start their school day facing off with an errant bull, but that’s what happened when Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley responded to the scene.
McKinley said he responded to a report of the bull chasing kids and teachers as students were getting off the bus Thursday morning in the school parking lot. He said the bull, a 900 to 1,000 pound animal with seven-inch horns, was eventually cornered and was put down in an area away and out of eyesight from the children.
The students and teachers at Dayville School did not expect to start their school day facing off with an errant bull, but that’s what happened when Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley responded to the scene.
McKinley said he responded to a report of the bull chasing kids and teachers as students were getting off the bus Thursday morning in the school parking lot. He said the bull, a 900 to 1,000 pound animal with seven-inch horns, was eventually cornered and was put down in an area away and out of eyesight from the children.
After receiving a bomb threat, the Dayville School was evacuated and searched on Dec. 12, with no items of suspicious origin found, said Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley.
The school was evacuated around noon on Tuesday, said McKinley, who added he has been in contact with the FBI regarding the incident. No students or staff were at risk during this event, he said.
In what appears to be a nationwide attempt to disrupt the education process, a large amount of similar bomb threats were received at schools around the state, according to the sheriff.