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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018
EDUCATION
Students provided summer meals
Local schools
provide free lunch
for students
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
The small grassy area
behind Umatilla-Morrow
Head Start office in Hermis-
ton slowly filled on Wednes-
day afternoon, as children
and parents lined up for the
summer lunch program.
The free program, which
runs weekdays from June
11 to Aug. 10, offers daily
meals from 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. for kids of all ages, and
has developed into a place
where children can find a
nutritious meal and enjoy
a variety of games and
lessons.
“It’s fun stuff and good
eats,” said Alea Garrett, a
middle schooler who has
come to the program with
her mom and siblings since
last summer.
Her mother, Melissa Gar-
rett, said the activities were
her children’s favorite part
of the day, and that she was
pleased with the variety of
meals offered.
Toni Eddy, UMCHS chil-
dren’s nutrition manager,
said they try to vary the
daily menu. One day this
week they served tuna salad
sandwiches, and another
there were crunchy Hawai-
ian chicken wraps. Each day
they also serve fresh fruit,
vegetables and milk.
“It meets a need finan-
cially for the parents, and
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Hunter Steffen, 8, and his sister, Kennedy Steffen, 4, eat
lunch with their brothers at the Umatilla-Morrow Head Start
summer meals program Wednesday in Hermiston.
nutritionally for the kids,”
Eddy said.
She said the program has
been active for at least five
years, and that all free meal
programs in the area help fill
a need during the summer.
“We have a high number
of children who qualify for
free and reduced lunch,” she
said. “Parents have to fig-
ure out how to make their
limited income stretch over
meals the kids would nor-
mally get at school. These
programs help supplement
their budget, help them
cover other bills, make food
stamps last through the
month.”
Eddy said participation
has varied, but they aver-
aged about 50 meals per
day last year. They are able
to serve 100 per day. Meals
that aren’t served are kept
for a day, and then donated
to Desert Rose Ministries.
Meals are offered to any
child age 1-18. Meals are
not offered to adults, but
Tabitha Woodie, Umatilla-Morrow Head Start health
resources specialist, talks about foods that are “good for
your teeth” with Marcus Chapman, 6, during their summer
meals program on Wednesday in Hermiston.
many parents will bring a
lunch of their own and sit
with their child. Eddy said if
adults volunteer at the pro-
gram, helping to set up or
clean, they can also get a
meal.
Many local lunch pro-
grams also offer daily
activities and services for
kids and their families. On
Wednesday, UMCHS had
a painting activity for kids,
and Advantage Dental was
doing free screenings and
fluoride coatings for chil-
dren and adults on-site.
Eddy said programs
range from arts and crafts
to physical activities, and
speakers and visitors from
the community.
“It’s not only a nutritious
meal, but an activity to help
with cognitive develop-
ment,” she said.
Umatilla School Dis-
trict also has an extensive
summer meal program.
Because of construction at
the elementary and middle
schools they are limited to
one kitchen, but the district
will offer both breakfast and
lunch to students at several
different sites. Parents can
also purchase a meal for $2.
Rikkilynn Larsen, the
child nutrition director, said
she hopes to expand the pro-
gram to include dinner later
in the summer, as they did
last year.
Larsen said based on
last year’s numbers, they’re
planning to serve about
500 per day. She said each
meal will feature a hot and
cold option, as well as local
fruits and vegetables when
possible.
They will also have daily
activities including basket-
ball and hula hoops, as well
as art projects, small gar-
dening projects and scaven-
ger hunts.
Larsen said she posts
the menus daily on the dis-
trict website, as well as on
Facebook.
Nutrition specialists mixing it up with school lunches
dle School students who
were documenting the event
for ALTV, they discussed
ways to adapt them for their
own students. Several peo-
ple thought the fiesta chicken
chili turned out too spicy for
younger students, for exam-
ple, and one table decided
they would add pineapple
juice to the berry smoothie
to sweeten it without add-
ing sugar. Some attend-
ees discussed which recipes
could be used for students
who are gluten-free, dairy-
free or have other dietary
restrictions — something
that has become increasingly
common.
Larson said it can be hard
to walk the line between
offering healthy, diverse
foods and offering selec-
tions that most students will
eat on any given day. Uma-
tilla School District has been
doing tastings with chil-
dren at OSU extension ser-
vice programs and that has
helped, she said.
Berdan said he hoped par-
ticipants in the day’s training
came away with new ideas
for next year’s lunch and
breakfast menus.
“We’re really focused on
building culinary skills and
culinary confidence,” he
said.
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
While pizza, sloppy
Joes and chicken nuggets
still make an appearance in
school cafeterias sometimes,
today’s school lunches are
not what they used to be.
“I like to encourage par-
ents to go have lunch with
their students at school at
least one time to see how
things have changed,” chef
Garrett Berdan said. “They
might be surprised to see the
variety, the different colors,
the love and care that goes
into them.”
Berdan was at Uma-
tilla High School on Fri-
day, teaching child nutri-
tion program professionals
from schools and daycares
around Eastern Oregon for
a training sponsored by the
Oregon Dairy and Nutri-
tion Council and the Oregon
Department of Education’s
Child Nutrition Services.
The annual trainings cover
a variety of topics, such as
evidence-based lunchroom
design that helps encourage
kids to make healthier eating
choices. Friday morning’s
training included a section
on knife skills with fruits and
vegetables and fresh herbs.
By 1 p.m. attendees had
cooked 16 different reci-
pes and everyone sat down
to try the buffet of options.
They loaded up plates with
arroz con pollo, spicy Asian
noodles with tofu, fiesta
chicken chili, Brazilian rice
and beans, berry smoothies,
oatmeal, roasted garbanzo
beans and more.
Most of the recipes, Ber-
dan said, were adapted from
the Food Hero program that
Oregon State University’s
extension service uses to
teach families about afford-
able, nutritious cooking
(anyone can look up recipes
at www.foodhero.org).
“It’s nice to have those
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Attendees at a regional school and childcare nutrition
training sample different recipies for lunch at Umatilla High
School.
recipes featured at school,
because there’s a good
chance they have already
tasted them at home, espe-
cially if their families are
SNAP recipients,” he said.
U.S. Department of Agri-
culture standards for school
and childcare nutrition have
gotten more strict in the past
20 years, Berdan said, which
presents more of a challenge
but also means that in many
cases students today are eat-
ing healthier meals at school
than their parents did.
Menus will vary depend-
ing on who runs the kitchen,
but for the most part culinary
specialists are encouraged to
offer a more diverse selec-
tion that represents a variety
of cultures.
Rikkilynn Larson, child
nutrition director for Uma-
tilla School District, said
Friday was the second time
Umatilla had played host to
one of the state’s continu-
ing education trainings. Last
time she picked up a few
new recipes she incorpo-
rated into Umatilla school
lunches, including a gour-
met grilled cheese sandwich
with roasted tomatoes. This
time she found a few more
she wanted to try.
“It’s so amazing,” she
said. “I always learn some-
thing new.”
As attendees tasted the
various recipes, accompa-
nied by Armand Larive Mid-
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