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Jan 27, 2021 6:18 AM
The Pennsylvania Department of Education announced yesterday that 59 elementary, middle and high schools received more than $875,000 in competitive grants to allow the purchase of new food service equipment. This includes two schools in the same district in Indiana County.
Funding for the grants was made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and were awarded to schools that took part in the National School Lunch Program. Acting Education Secretary Noe (no-ee) Ortega said that the grant will help the schools “provide students with essential meals they need to learn and grow.” Schools can use the money to purchase or upgrade equipment like refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and other appliances.
Helping farmers and the hungry
Wednesday Jan 27th, 2021
Perfect synergy. Bringing Food to the Needy and Helping Farmers at the Same Time
It started way back in the depression: “An emergency surplus removal program to purchase those surpluses and give those food products to the needy around the country.” And Dave Tuckwiller with USDA s Agricultural Marketing Service now over 85 years later: “That program is still in existence where we do take the surpluses off the market and we re feeding hungry people across America.”
And Dave helps to run the commodity procurement program which has expanded its scope from just trying to support farmers and farm product prices by removing surplus products from the market. The National School Lunch Program.
RSU 24 offers free meals to students
SULLIVAN While winter is far from over, the Summer Food Service Program is in full swing at Regional School Unit 24 (RSU 24).
“All meals are free,” RSU 24 Food Services Director Linda Mailhot explained to The American. “It’s a wonderful thing.”
The program provides free breakfasts and lunches to students in districts in which at least 50 percent of the student population is eligible for free or reduced meals.
It is available to any student 18 years old and younger.
Typically, the program is available, and RSU 24 participates in it, in the summer months when school is not in session, but thanks to a federal waiver, the program has been extended past the summer months and throughout the school year until June.
Cocalico Senior High School is one of several elementary, middle and high schools across the state to receive funding for food service equipment through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Cocalico was recently approved to receive $25,511.74 for an electric conveyor oven as a total of 59 schools across the state were awarded funding through a competitive grant program.
Schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program are eligible for the grant program. Schools use the grants to purchase or upgrade equipment such as refrigerators, freezers, stoves and dishwashers.
Just 2% of U.S. teens eat recommended level of vegetables
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A new CDC survey suggests that roughly 2% of teens eat the minimum daily allotment of vegetables the same as the agency found in a 2013 survey. Photo by Anestiev/Pixabay
In findings that may ring true to parents, a new government survey shows that a paltry 2% of U.S. high school students are eating enough vegetables.
The study is the latest look at teenagers eating habits by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And experts described the results as disappointing.
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Of more than 13,000 high school students surveyed in 2017, only 2% were getting the minimum recommended allotment of veggies: 2.5 to 3 cups per day.