Warden schools offer free summer breakfast, lunch

WARDEN — The Warden Schools will be offering free breakfast and lunch to students 18 and younger this summer.

Beginning on Tuesday, June 26, and running through Thursday, Aug. 2, the district will be serving breakfast and lunch to anyone who is eligible three days each week, Tuesday through Thursday.

According to Pauline Wixom, the director of food service for the Warden School District, all of the school’s 900 or so students are eligible to receive free meals during summer school.

“We are 100 percent free and reduced. We’re under the community eligibility provision,” Wixom said.

Breakfast will be served from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the nation’s school nutrition programs, community eligibility “allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications.”

Schools and districts are eligible communities if 40 percent or more of their students are enrolled in the school nutrition programs in the previous academic year.

For more information, call the Warden School District at 509-349-2366 x1450.