{"id":21980,"date":"2020-03-19T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63847"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:24:01","slug":"free-school-lunches-feed-100-students-during-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/free-school-lunches-feed-100-students-during-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Free school lunches feed 100 students during closure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Allie Smith takes her sack lunch from a district employee Wednesday in the Granby Elementary School parking lot. East Grand is providing free lunches to all students in the district.<\/strong>
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Allie Smith, along with her two brothers and mom, walked through the Granby Elementary School parking lot when two of her friends spotted her and shouted her name.<\/p>\n

The children sprinted at each other, arms spread, and someone\u2019s mom reminded them, \u201cNo hugging!\u201d<\/p>\n

Allie hasn\u2019t been to school this week, just like every other student in Grand County.  She said she was enjoying being out of school, but according to her mom, Cassandra Smith, her daughter wasn\u2019t totally happy when school was canceled.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s very education oriented so it was a little disappointing, but she\u2019s adapted very well,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n

The Smiths along with other families went to the Granby Elementary parking lot as one of 12 locations across the East Grand School District where free lunches were being distributed to students. Smith said having this resource was an asset for her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re helpful,\u201d Smith said. \u201cEspecially this time of the week when payday is coming up, we\u2019re always short on food and we rely on the school for that. It\u2019s nice to have this opportunity to help make sure that they get fed and that they get the nutrition they need during the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith is not the only parent in East Grand that depends on these resources. According to the Colorado Department of Education, roughly one in four students in East Grand qualify for free or reduced lunch. A big concern for the district as it moved to close in face of the novel coronavirus outbreak was how to continue that support.<\/p>\n

Any student in East Grand, regardless of whether he or she qualifies for free or reduced lunch, is able to pick up these lunches. As district employees gave out the lunches, they chatted with students and offered some resources to keep children entertained.<\/p>\n

East Grand said it served out about 100 lunches Wednesday. Allie and the other students who stopped by seemed glad to visit briefly with staff and get their lunches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a great thing so we can get fed,\u201d Allie said, a little bashful.<\/p>\n

Grab and go lunches are available Monday through Thrusday at 12 locations in the East Grand District. West Grand is currently on spring break but will be offering a similar program starting next week. Visit the districts\u2019 websites for details and information.<\/p>\n

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Allie Smith takes her sack lunch from a district employee Wednesday in the Granby Elementary School parking lot. East Grand is providing free lunches to all students in the district.Amy Golden \/ agolden@skyhinews.com Allie Smith, along with her two brothers and mom, walked through the Granby Elementary School parking lot when two of her friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 10:49:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}