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Healthier school meals: How 5 districts are faring WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years in, schools are having mixed success putting new healthier school lunch rules in place. Some report that students are excited about a variety of healthier options and have barely noticed the changes. Others say some kids are throwing fruits and vegetables away and balking at whole grains. The requirements are part of a government effort to make school lunches and breakfasts healthier. Championed by first lady Michelle Obama, the new standards have been phased in over the last two school years, with more changes coming in 2014. Not all schools are required to follow the requirements, but most do. If they don’t, they won’t receive government subsidies that partially reimburse schools for free and low-cost lunches for low-income kids. In Virginia’s Alexandria City Public Schools, school nutrition director Becky Domokos-Bays says students have adapted to whole grain rolls and pizza crusts, but have so far
rejected whole grain pastas. Here’s how five other school districts are doing: NEW MEXICO: ROSWELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT Lyman Graham, director of student nutrition for Roswell and two other New Mexico school districts, says one of the biggest problems has been finding whole grain rich tortillas that kids will eat. Like Taylor in rural Georgia, he doesn’t have a lot of vendors to choose from, and he says the whole wheat tortillas he can get are slimy and don’t hold up. So he’s had to take popular breakfast burritos and wraps off his menus. He says he’s had more luck with whole wheat bread, which the kids haven’t complained about as much. OHIO: CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS Jessica Shelly, food service director at Cincinnati’s urban public schools, says she started serving healthier foods in her lunchrooms years before the gover nment standards were required, so it has been easier for
kids to adjust. She has seen increased participation by enthusiastically highlighting the new menus with kids. She says salad bars with lots of variety — pickle slices, banana peppers, different kinds of beans, for example — give kids healthy options and also the sense that they are creating their own meals. GEORGIA: WARE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM In rural Southeast Georgia, Stephanie Taylor, director of school nutrition for the Ware County School System, says she doesn’t have much of a selection from food service vendors. She has had a hard time finding tasty whole grain rich biscuits and grits, and would like to occasionally serve the white flour versions. Starting this fall, she won’t be able to do that. Taylor agrees that school lunches needed improvement and says kids have been more accepting as industry has formulated better tasting healthy foods. KANSAS: WALLACE COUNTY SCHOOLS
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In this Tuesday, April 29, photo, fruit and vegetables are served during lunch at the Patrick Henry Elementary School in Alexandria, Va.
The tiny Wallace County school district made headlines in 2012 when students and teachers put together a video called “We Are Hungry” — set to the tune of the popular song “We Are Young” by the group Fun. — in which kids pretended to pass out from hunger because of the new standards. The students’ main concer n was maximum
Assurance Home holds open house
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Attendees enjoy a performance from The Flying J Wranglers during a celebration of the Assurance Home’s 35th anniversary, held Sunday.
Hundreds of people came to help Assurance Home celebrate its 35th anniversary on Sunday. Those in attendance were treated to free ice cream and coconut tea provided by Classics Frozen Custard, homemade cookies and a fun concert provided by the world famous Flying J Wranglers. Many lucky participants were able to ride horses on Assurance Home’s front lawn. Assurance Home is a well-known and successful program providing therapeutic group home services to abused/neglected, homeless and at-risk adolescent children from throughout the Pecos Val-
ley and New Mexico.
Assurance Home opened its doors to children in April of 1979. The Home is a small, standalone nonprofit governed by a local board of directors and is a United Way Agency.
The purpose of Sunday’s event was for Assurance Home to express its appreciation to a loving community that has helped care for this special population of children for the past 35 years.
The children, staff and members of the board of directors greeted people as they arrived to thank them for their caring support.
requirements on proteins and grains. After hearing the same complaint from many schools across the country, USDA scrapped those requirements. NEW JERSEY: WEST NEW YORK SCHOOL DISTRICT Sal Valenza, food service director for West New York, says he got students involved early, hosting a healthier food fair so they
could sample new items when the district put in a healthier school lunch menu more than five years ago. The school also has what he calls a “harvest bar,” with locally-grown fruits and vegetables, and the district has taken chips out of elementary schools.
INTERSECTION OF WEST ALAMEDA AND SOUTH RICHARDSON CLOSED The City of Roswell and Constructors Inc. will start the replacement of a water line on West Alameda and South Richardson beginning today. The intersection will be closed to traffic until May 12.
City officials ask drivers to pay close attention to the traffic control signage.
For more infor mation, contact Constructors Inc. Project Manager Jana Lessard at 626-5485.
LEGISLATOR CRITICAL OF POT SEIZURES
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A state legislator wants the Border Patrol to reconsider its policy for seizing medical marijuana at checkpoints in southern New Mexico.
Rep. Bill McCamley, D-Las Cruces, sent the head of Border Patrol’s parent agency a letter last week questioning the practice given that New Mexico has a program allowing use of marijuana for certain medicinal purposes. McCamley acknowledged that marijuana remains illegal under federal law but said federal policy should reflect the reality of New Mexico’s program, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The Border Patrol’s policy means medical marijuana users who live in southern New Mexico can’t take their marijuana elsewhere in the state, McCamley said.
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