Federal Program Offers Nutritional Meals to 18 and Younger in Manassas
Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) has gotten the green light from the federal government to participate in the summer program.
Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) has gotten the green light from the federal government to participate in a summer nutrition program.
While MCPS is hosting the program this summer at three of its schools, funding for it comes from the federal government, not the local school board budget, according to Almeta Radford, MCPS public information officer.
The purpose behind the program is to continue to provide nutritional meals to students once school lets out for the summer.
Cecily Anthony, director of Food Services for MCPS, applied for the school division to participate in the program. As a result, the city is able to provide three sites where meals will be available during the summer.
Breakfast and lunch will be served to any child 18 years of age or younger at no charge. Breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m., and lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. until 12:15 p.m.
Meals will be served at the following schools:
- Round Elementary School: Monday - August 9
- Metz Middle School: Monday – August 9
Students and children must dine at the schools.
Registration is not necessary, and program benefits and services are available to all children without regard to race, religion, color, sex, disability, age or national origin, according to information posted on the school system's website.
The summer program is operated in accordance with federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy. For more information, please contact Cecily Anthony, director of Food and Nutrition Services at 571-377-6056 or by email at canthony@manassas.k12.va.us.
For more information about the program by the USDA and Virginia Department of Health, visit here.
Video: Manassas City Schools participates in free program for kids.
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George C Round Elementary School
10100 Hastings Dr, Manassas, VA -
Metz Middle School
9950 Wellington Rd, Manassas, VA
Charles Sutherland
11:28 am on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Who in the Manassas school system asked the federal government to make Manassas a larger welfare sanctuary than it already is?
Are the recipients of theses free meals going to also receive an extra copy of the free travel guides the Mexican Foreign Ministry provides to would-be illegal aliens as to how to come to the US? Are the meal tickets in Spanish, or English?
Kevin Chisholm
3:20 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
I don’t know why this is so newsworthy. Good nutrition is very important, yes! However, you have a planet that is baking, and this is your top story. Gotta wonder about that.
How about this: Virginia Rail Express (VRE) will extend service to Gainesville soon. And if counties to the west (between Manassas and Front Royal) want to have VRE too they can! I suggest that citizens west of Manassas in Fauquier and Warren Counties petition their county governments to join in the VRE system. What’s more, ask VRE for weekend service. (www.vre.org) To gain VRE service, the local county needs to pony-up for a small tax.
Kevin Chisholm
Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives (Virginia’s 10th Congressional)
www.chisholmforcongress.com
Mary Ann Jenkins
8:29 am on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Is it not a parent's responsibility to feed their children and not the government? It is one thing to provide meals during the school year but now in the summer? Before long the government will be providing dinner. Just because local tax dollars are not being spent to provide the meals, it is still our tax dollars, only at the federal level. I cannot believe that Manassas has become a part of this nanny state mentality that the federal government seems to expand every day. No one needs to be responsibile for anything anymore. You don't even have to worry about providing meals for your own children.