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Thursday, September 13, 2018 East Oregonian Page 11A y l i Health & F m a F itne s s Day Jayati Ramakrishnan/EO photo Ramon Quirarte and Joel Varela enjoy breakfast before class at Armand Larive Mid- dle School. BREAKFAST: 22 percent of the district’s students benefit from program Continued from 1A He said currently about 22 percent of the district’s students take advantage of the free breakfast program and he hopes to see at least a 10 percent increase in par- ticipation this year. “If we went to 50 per- cent, I’d be so pleased,” he said. Chartwells offers a dif- ferent main morning meal each day, such as biscuits and sausage with gravy, egg-and-cheese burritos, scrambled egg pizzas or cinnamon oatmeal. Students can also get cereal, milk and fruit every day. Katie Saul, Hermiston School District’s director of business services, said some funding for meals comes from the state and the rest is covered by the district’s contract with Chartwells. “It’s built into the con- tract price,” Saul said. Busch said Chartwells is also looking into some other new meal programs for the district. “At the high school we’ll be implementing a student choice program,” he said. Every few months, Chart- wells will have a tasting table at the high school with several different types of food. Students can try the different meals and vote for the ones they’d like to have served at lunch. “Because they choose meals, we’re hoping for greater participation,” Busch said. He said he hopes to encourage students to eat on campus, instead of going to nearby conve- nience stores for lunch. “We can give better nutri- tional choices,” he said. ——— Contact Jayati Ramakrishnan at jra- makrishnan@hermistonher- ald.com or 541-564-4534. Don’t let him get away! Staff photo by E.J. Harris Janey Reeves of Melba, Idaho, throws her lasso towards a calf on her way to a 3-second time in breakaway roping Wedneday at the Pendleton Round-Up. Saturday, September 22, 2018 9am-2pm at Hermiston High School FREE Health & Wellness Event for All Ages • Teddy Bear Clinic • Cooking Classes • Dental Screens and Onsite Treatment for Uninsured • On-site Mammograms • Yoga and Zumba sessions • SHIBA • Early childhood Activities • Community Health Resources and Programs • Screenings: • Blood pressures, lipid, A1c/diabetes, hearing, vision, balance, body composition, respiratory health and more!! • Helmet Fittings • Giant Inflatable Colon • Door Prizes • Health Snacks • And SO Much More for Children, Seniors and Everyone in Between! U.S., Cuba to meet on mystery ‘health attacks’ in Havana By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. and Cuban officials will meet later today in an effort to determine the method and motive behind mystery inci- dents in Havana that have injured American diplomats. The meeting comes amid widespread frustra- tion among national security agencies and in Congress at the lack of answers about what the U.S. describes as “health attacks” that began nearly two years ago and affected some two dozen people, including some diagnosed with brain dam- age. It also comes amid a flurry of reports suggest- ing investigators have nar- rowed their suspicions as to the cause and culprit. The department said Thursday’s meeting is “part of our ongoing effort to investigate and better under- stand the health conditions of our diplomats.” It said the Cuban delegation would “receive a general medical briefing about the injuries experienced by U.S. person- nel who served in Havana.” The State Department has downplayed or denied reports that investigators have focused on a micro- wave device as the source of the attacks and that Russia is the leading suspect. The reports have also raised pro- tests from Cuba, which does not dispute the symptoms but insists there is no evi- dence to support any asser- tion that they were caused by premeditated attacks on its soil. Twenty-five U.S. Embassy workers in Cuba — as well as one at the U.S. consulate in Guangzhou, China — have been affected by mysterious health inci- dents, suffering a range of symptoms and diagnoses including mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussion, that began in the fall of 2016. The last case from Havana was confirmed in June, when the department said two embassy staffers had been affected in a sin- gle occurrence in late May in a diplomatic residence at which both officers were present. Those were the first confirmed cases in Havana since August 2017. One U.S. official said Thursday’s meeting was organized after Cuba com- plained that Washington has been withholding key details about the affected Ameri- cans’ medical conditions. The official was not autho- rized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on con- dition of anonymity. But, in congressional testimony last week, State Department medical personnel suggested they had shared more infor- mation with China about the incident in Guang- zhou than they had with the Cubans about the incidents in Havana. Officials at the Cuban Embassy in Washing- ton, who have repeatedly denounced the U.S. accu- sations as politically moti- vated and unproven, had no immediate comment. Several officials from the State Department and other agencies involved in the U.S. investigation last week testified before a House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee panel but were unable to provide any new infor- mation about the probe and its potential findings. In two closed-door, classified briefings with congressio- nal aides and lawmakers, the officials repeated that they had not come to any con- clusions about what caused the injuries or who might be responsible for them. Initial speculation had centered on some type of sonic attack, owing to strange sounds heard by those affected, but an interim FBI report in Janu- ary found no evidence that sound waves could have caused the damage. Questions? Contact angie.treadwell@oregonstate.edu
