[Vision2020] PR - MSD to Host Summer Lunch Program

[Stephanie Kalasz]

City of Moscow
206 E Third Street
Moscow, ID 83843
Contact: Gary J. Riedner, City Supervisor
p     |  208-883-7006
e     |   griedner at ci.moscow.id.us<mailto:griedner at ci.moscow.id.us>
w    |  www.ci.moscow.id.us<http://www.ci.moscow.id.us>

PRESS RELEASE
Moscow School District to Host Summer Lunch Program

June 5, 2012 (Moscow, Idaho) - The Moscow School District (MSD) will offer summer lunch meals to children Monday through Friday, June 11 through August 17 at 11:30 a.m. at West Park Elementary in Moscow, Idaho.  Ghormley Park will be available to those participating in the program and the picnic shelter and restrooms will be available for use at the park.  Meals will not be offered on July 4, 2012.  A kickoff event for the summer food program will be held on site, June 13th, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The Summer Food Program is a USDA federal program that allows children between the ages of one and eighteen to receive meals during the summer when they do not have access to the school meal program.  All children in Moscow and Latah County are eligible to receive these meal benefits.

Volunteers are needed to make this program a success. MSD is hoping to have volunteers at the meal site each day to serve meals to children, interact with all participants and help with clean up. Because this is a USDA program, there are strict requirements that the meals are consumed by children and that they are not taken off site, so supervision is needed.

The total cost of meals served to children under this USDA federal program will be reimbursed by the Idaho Department of Education. Moscow School District Food Service Staff will prepare the food and serve the meals.  The USDA summer food program requires records to be kept of the number of participants each day.  MSD will use these numbers to determine the effectiveness of the program. If the number of children served increases during the serving period and if the program is determined to be economically feasible, then the program will be considered a success and will be continued in the future.

For more information on the Moscow School District Summer Food Program, please contact program coordinator Mimi Pengilly, R.D., Moscow School District Director of Student Nutrition Services at 208-892-1123.

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Story Contact: Jen Pfiffner, Assistant to the City Supervisor
Phone: 208.883.7123
Email: jpfiffner at ci.moscow.id.us<mailto:jpfiffner at ci.moscow.id.us>


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