Free Meals For Henderson County Children

Evansville IN

14 August, 2021

11:39 AM

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By Steve Burger, WNIN Aug. 14, 2021 For students and other children in the Henderson County School District, there will be such a thing as a free lunch this school year. Henderson County School officials announced this week that they'll be offering free breakfast and lunch to all children age eighteen and under in the county during the 2021-2022 school year. Henderson County Director of Child Nutrition Charlotte Baumgartner says that students will get the meals at school, while other children will be able to get them at community sites. The school district is participating in the Seamless Summer Option of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. There is no fee for the program. Families do not have to submit a household application in order to participate, although they will need to fill out the application for other types of school related aid. For more information on the program or the location of community sites, you can contact Baumgartner, at 270-831-5014 or e-mail [email protected] A new master plan is in the works for the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library system, and officials want input from the community. The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation has begun the new school year with a mask mandate. The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation says masks are recommended but not required for the upcoming school year – at least for now. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.