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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Food 4 Kids keeps students fed over the weekends
Backpack group
provides meals
for Seaside
schoolchildren
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — During the
school week, students have
access to free and reduced-
price meals, but those options
are not available during the
weekend. That leaves some
students to endure a few days
with possibly less to eat. The
Food 4 Kids backpack pro-
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The goal of the organiza-
tion is to supply elementary
and middle school students
in the Seaside School District
with supplemental week-
end meals during the school
year. Using food primar-
ily purchased with donated
money, several dozen volun-
teers work weekly to reach
that goal.
Seaside residents Coral
Cook and her daughter,
Brandi Perry, are two of the
program’s longtime volun-
teers. Cook was involved
with a summer lunch pro-
gram for about eight years
until the school district took
it over. Then Cook — along
with Rosemary Kemper-Rid-
dock, Annette Brodigan,
Mary Blake, Maureen and
Jim Casterline, Jan Jackson
and Al Peinhardt — started
thinking of “how the kids
aren’t fed over the week-
ends,” she said. The group
established the Food 4 Kids
program in 2011, starting
with Seaside Heights Ele-
mentary School students and
growing from there.
Since Kemper-Riddock
died in October 2015, Sally
LaCoste stepped in from Our
Lady of Victory Catholic
church. Other volunteers also
took on some of Kemper-Rid-
dock’s various responsibil-
ities. However, “there is no
replacement for her,” Cook
said of Kemper-Riddock.
Generally, the volunteers
prepackage cold food items
on Wednesday afternoons
and set out products to be
separated into the backpacks
Thursday. One of six par-
ticipating groups — includ-
ing Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church, Our Lady of Vic-
tory Catholic church, Seaside
Elks Lodge, Home Depot,
Photos by Katherine Lacaze/EO Media Group
Coral Cook, an organizer of the Food 4 Kids backpack program, shows young volunteers Teagan (center) and Quinn Duffy how to package hotdogs
for distribution.
the Seaside American Legion
and the Seaside Method-
ist Church — are responsi-
ble for rotating weeks, but
some volunteers come more
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ated organization.
The backpacks are sent
home with students Fridays,
and they return them Mon-
days so the process can start
over.
Fundraising to
cover costs
The backpack program
receives some grant money,
but relies heavily on dona-
tions from community mem-
bers, local businesses and
other organizations. Cook
estimates it costs about $7
per backpack each week, or
$252 per student each year.
The program gets some of its
food from the South County
Community Food Bank at
low costs. The Regional
Food Bank, run by Clatsop
Community Action, supports
Food 4 Kids, not to provide
money or dictate menus, but
ABOVE: Brandi Perry separates cold food items into small-
er packages that get sent home with students through the
Food 4 Kids backpack program. Perry has volunteered
with the program since it was established about four
years ago. RIGHT: Teagan (left) and Shea Duffy smash up
old boxes for recycling as part of their volunteer work with
the local Food 4 Kids backpack program.
to ensure the volunteers fol-
low protocol and health
codes, Cook said.
The
Seaside
Police
Department and Seaside Fire
Department used to deliver
the backpacks to the school.
Now they are delivered by
various volunteers, including
a group from Helping Hands
Reentry Outreach Centers.
The organization also
hosts fundraisers to cover
costs.
For further information
or to volunteer to serve, con-
tact Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church at 503-738-6791.
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