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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | AUGUST 27, 2020 | 9A South Valley Resource Alliance moves to new location in Cottage Grove South Valley Resource Alliance (SVRA) recently announced that the Fri- day Food Share, serving South Lane county res- idents who experience hunger or food insecu- rity, is now distributing food from its new loca- tion in Cottage Grove, operating from the Ru- ral Organizing Project building at 632 Main Street. Since April, the group has served the communi- ty from an outdoor loca- tion at the Health Hub on Main and 11th streets. SVRA and its dedi- cated core of volunteers sorts and packages about 4,000 pounds of food received from Food for Lane County every other Friday, feeding about 180 people during each Fri- day Food Share. Individuals and fami- lies with incomes up to 300 percent of the pov- erty level are welcome to take advantage of the free program. Prior to March of this year, Food for Lane County estimated that nearly 42 percent of Lane County households suf- fered from some sort of food insecurity. That number has grown dramatically since the outbreak of the pan- demic along with busi- ness closures and mass layoffs. SVRA relies on the generous support of our community to provide the Friday Food Share. Contact us at svra4cg@ gmail.com to volunteer or donate. from A1 ing stipends of $4,000 to each awarded district to address home internet connectivity for kids in need, fi nances SLSD in- tends to make good use of. Following a spring se- mester in which schools were still adapting to a rapidly shift ing public health environment, the district has been quick to point out it has achieved a higher level of pre- paredness for the new school year. “We were made aware that there’s a great need for our families to have access to technology,” said McCasline. First Book recently released the results of a nationwide survey of their network of more than 475,000 educators that shows 40 percent of children in need do not have reliable internet and almost 40 percent are without access to functioning devices. In Cottage Grove, school district commu- nication with families since pandemic restric- tions set in has revealed that many are in need of devices and internet access to participate in distance learning. Just shy of 900 Chromebook were dis- tributed to families in a district of roughly 2,600 students in the spring and following surveys have seen requests for around 600 more. Th e grant will help supply fully-confi gured Chromebooks to fami- lies still in need of these devices. Still, a recent survey conducted by the district has found that just under 10 percent of families do not have internet con- nections in their homes. To address this, the dis- trict is using its $4,000 to set up more than 100 hotspots for households with reliable cell service. Even with these ef- forts, however, some families are predicted to still be in need of assis- tance. “All of our families need access,” said Mc- Casline. “So what we’re going to do for families that can’t access it with their own connectiv- ity, that can’t access it through our hotspots and that can’t access it by purchasing their own in- ternet plan … Th en we’re busing them into school and we’re going to pro- vide access to technolo- gy at our schools.” Limited in-person instruction is allowed under current regula- tions. As along as cer- tain COVID-19 infec- tion metrics are met, exceptions are made for students under certain categories such as Eng- lish-language learners, special education stu- dents and those without internet access. K-3 students are also allowed in-person edu- cation as part of this ex- ception. “Th ere should be no student that says, ‘I can’t access because I don’t have technology,’” said McCasline. Additionally, the LEGO Foundation is do- nating $2 million-worth of LEGO Education solutions to support STEAM (Science, Tech- nology, Engineering, Arts and Math) learning at home and in school through the grant pro- gram. From this, SLSD is re- ceiving 300 sets to off er students grades K-8 a playful STEAM learn- ing experience based on LEGO machine sets. In all, the addition of the devices, connectiv- ity access and materials will help create the un- derlying framework for a CDL model which as seen about 70 people put in more than 900 hours of planning and devel- opment work for both distance and hybrid learning. “When we’re given the ability to plan ahead, obviously we can do a much better job of dis- tancing learning than in the spring,” said Mc- Casline. Grant digital learning resourc- es. 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