IRON RANGE – United Way of Northeastern Minnesota (UWNEMN) has added four new sites to its free summer lunch program, Meet Up and Chow Down, for a total of 13 locations where local children can access food while school is out of session. The program will offer free lunches to all children ages 0
The Buck Lake Improvement Club, the City of Keewatin, the Keewatin Police Department, the Nashwauk Public Library, and various organizations from the Nashwauk-Keewatin Schools were recently presented with checks totaling $21,500. As with many issues in the world today, COVID-19 had an effect on some of the requests. N-K Band director, Chad Snider stated that, of his 120 band students, â55% are free or reduced lunch eligible and roughly 50% of our students rely on the school to provide an instrument.â His goal was to provide students with more instruments and supplies to cut down on students having to share. He added, âCurrently we have around 15 kids who share instruments.â Luke Adam, who is the faculty advisor for Spartan Angling, stated that his group was initially founded by funding from a DNR grant. âThe funding for the class has been reduced due to a huge decline in local, charitable gambling funds. When bars and restaurants were limited