Any child needing lunch during Spring Break between the ages of 1 and 18 qualify -- Lunch is served from noon to 12:30 p.m.
(SALEM, Ore.) - When schools close for spring break, March 24-28, school lunch programs take a vacation too.
Marion-Polk Food Share has been helping fill that gap by providing lunch service in high-need locations around the two county area.
Through a partnership with Salem/Keizer Schools and other local school districts, Boys & Girls Club of Salem, Marion and Polk Counties, Salem Housing Authority and Sodexho USA, close to 7,000 lunches were served to area children in high-needs areas of the city in 2007.
This year, there will be thirty-three lunch sites, providing approximately 8,000 spring break lunches as part of Food Share’s No Hungry Child program.
There will be sites in Salem, Keizer, Silverton, Scotts Mills, Mt. Angel, Aumsville, Hubbard, Woodburn, Dallas, Monmouth, Independence and Grand Ronde.
Food Share relies on the generous support of the community to help fund these lunches, provide the volunteers, and donate new or “gently used” children’s books to be distributed to the kids with the lunches that week.
Any child needing lunch during Spring Break between the ages of 1 and 18 qualify. Lunch is served from noon to 12:30 p.m.
Locations are:
Salem/Keizer School District:
1. Auburn Elementary School 4612 Auburn Road NE
2. Bush School 410 14th Street SE
3. Cummings School (Keizer) 613 Cummings Lane N
4. Mary Eyre Elementary School 4868 Buffalo Drive SE
5. Four Corners Elementary 500 Elma SE
6. Hallman School 4000 Deerhaven Drive NE
7. Highland School 530 Highland Avenue NE
8. Richmond Elementary School 466 Richmond Avenue SE
9. Salem Heights Elementary School 3495 Liberty Road SE
10. Adam Stephens Middle School 4952 Hayesville Drive NE
11. Washington School 3165 Lansing Avenue NE
12. Meadowlark Apartments 4100 Kacey Circle NE
13. Glen Creek Village Apartments 1320 Orchard Heights Road. NW
14. Parkway Village Apartments 3143 7th Place NE
15. Salem First Free Methodist 4455 Silverton Road NE
16. Grace Community Church 4105 Lancaster Drive NE
17. Morningside United Methodist Church 3674 12th Street SE
18. Knudson Boys & Girls Club (closed Monday) 1395 Summer Street NE
19. Eastwood Boys & Girls Club at Hoover School 1120 Savage Road NE
20. Keizer Boys & Girls Club at Kennedy School 4540 Noren Avenue NE
21. Swegle Boys & Girls Club at Swegle School 4485 Market Street NE
Rural Marion County
22. Eugene Field Elementary School 410 N. Water Street, Silverton
23. Scotts Mills Elementary School 801 First Street, Scotts Mills
24. St. Mary's Elementary School 590 E. Collget Street, Mt. Angel
25. Aumsville Elementary School 572 North 11th Street, Aumsville
26. Rivenes Park 4th & "D" Streets, Hubbard
27. French Prairie Middle School 1041 N. Boone's Ferry Road, Woodburn
Rural Polk County
28. Whitworth Elementary School 1151 SE Miller Street, Dallas
29. Dallas Resource Center 326 Main Street, Dallas
30. Oregon Child Development Coalition 535 G Street, Independence
31. Independence Elementary School 150 S 4th Street, Independence
32. Western Oregon University Werner Center 345 Monmouth Street, Monmouth
33. Willamina Middle School 8720 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde
Marion and Polk County Spring Break Free Lunch SitesSalem-News.com