Keystone Central Adds Woodward and Liberty-Curtin to Free School Lunch Sites
BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP – The Keystone Central School District has added two additional sites providing free meals available to children while district schools are closed. Late Monday it was announced that the meals will be available beginning Tuesday, March 17 at Woodward Elementary School in Dunnstown and Liberty-Curtin Elementary in Blanchard.
The program started Monday at Robb Elementary in Lock Haven, at Central Mountain Middle School in Mill Hall, the Sugar Valley Fire Company in Loganton and Renovo Elementary in Farwell.
Lunches and breakfasts, as prepared by school cafeteria employees, are available Monday through Friday this week and next. Robin Taranto, Robb School Principal, told therecord-online, “We’re pleased to do it for the kids.” She said 400 meals have been prepared, placed on tables at the school entrance, and available each day from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for anyone between the ages of 1 and 18, no questions asked.
The meals are through the National School Lunch Program’s Seamless Summer Option program. This program is open to all children in the community.
The meals will be distributed March 16-20 and March 23-27, 2020.
Children must be present for meals to be provided.
The school district provided the following information:
● Examples of breakfast grab and go foods offered will be breakfast bars, bagels, cereal,
graham crackers, juice, and milk. Lunch grab and go foods offered will be sandwiches,
cooked hot dogs and cooked pizza (for families to reheat as needed at home), fresh and
cooked vegetables, fresh and canned fruit, and milk.
● Children, parents, caregivers, and family members will not be permitted into school
buildings. Meals are meant to be taken home to eat.
● Contact Keystone Central School District’s Food and Nutrition Service at (570) 893-4900 x 2302 if you need to make arrangements for medically necessary meal
accommodations.
● Families may walk to all school sites to pick up meals but are asked not to congregate at the pick-up site to help prevent illness.
