Plans to feed students lunch beyond this week’s standard spring break and during an extended e-learning period at home are being made in a collaboration among local agencies and Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.
One meeting was slated Monday afternoon with details to be released soon, according to Josh Burnett, the school corporation’s communications coordinator. “We’re currently working on a number of things,” Burnett said.
And some already have pitched in to help this week for students in families who have stayed in town.
First United Methodist Church and Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family have teamed up for their regular spring break No Empty Lunchboxes free sack lunch program during the off-from-school days last week and this week. The program, free to families in the Lincoln-Central neighborhood, among the city’s most impoverished, provides youngsters with a sandwich, chips or pretzels and other things such as a granola bar and candy.
“We have committed to providing these lunches to the children who will be identified (by Lincoln-Central) for the entire time BCSC is out due to COVID-19,” said the Rev. Sarah Campbell, the church’s associate pastor.
And the church’s regular Monday evening in-house meal has now become a boxed meal to pick up, in light of new COVID-19 guidelines, according to church staff.
“Our church is committed to serving our neighbors and sharing God’s love in as many ways as we can, and this is just one extension of that love,” Campbell said.
For the complete story, see Tuesday’s Republic.
