Special to the Daily
As part of the pandemic services that are getting extensions and additions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced it would fund the universal free lunch program for another school year. And while the program is ultimately good and benefits over 2,000 Eagle County students and families it could reduce the funding that the school district receives as part of its participation in the National School Lunch Program. is a federally assisted meal program that was signed into law in 1946 by President Harry Truman. Eligibility as well as the distinction between free and reduced in this program is based off a number of factors including household size and income. Last year, the USDA made this program free as a result of the pandemic, meaning that all students were automatically eligible for free breakfast and lunch.
An illustration from The Legend Of William Lamport
Revolution was in the Lamport blood. And it was into this world, a world in which his father, and his father before him, had to fight for their freedom, that William was born.
Like so many Catholics of that age, William s formative years were marked by persecution, by the oppressive regime of the British Empire. And from a young age he adopted the revolutionary ideals which had been sewn deep into his lineage.
Having been sent to London to study with the Jesuits at the age of 13, William was forced to flee to the continent after he published anti-Protestant pamphlets and began distributing them around town.