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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
School districts and bus drivers work together to deliver meals
By JADE MCDOWELL
NEWS EDITOR
After COVID-19 closed
schools for the rest of the
year, school bus drivers are
transporting food instead of
students.
The sack lunches may
be quieter passengers, but
Mid Columbia Bus Com-
pany driver Dennis Cook
said he misses the students
and is glad he still gets to
see some of them when he
drops off meals at stops
around Stanfi eld Monday
through Thursday.
“It’s been nice to see
some of the kids,” he said.
Staff from Stanfi eld
School District have been
taking turns riding along
to distribute meals, and
Cook said students get
“really excited” when they
see their own teacher at a
drop-off.
Ricardo Martinez, a
Umatilla bus driver for
MidCo, said at fi rst drop-
ping off meals was “a little
hectic,” but everyone has
settled into a routine now.
“I love it,” he said. “... I
was already going crazy at
home, not going anywhere,
so when my manager asked
if I would do it, I said sure.”
Each day the drivers run
the same route, stopping at
various bus stops to provide
a package of one break-
fast, lunch and dinner for
any child under age 18 who
shows up. On Wednesdays,
they also drop off home-
work packets for elemen-
tary school students, and
on Thursdays high school
and middle school students
get their homework. Home-
work can be sent back to
the school with the bus
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Staff load lunches into a school bus at Hermiston High School on the morning of April 23. The
lunches were distributed to students throughout the school district.
“FOR A LOT OF THE KIDS, IT’S
THE ONE TIME THEY GET OUT
OF THE HOUSE.”
Trista Thompson, a bus driver who delivers meals for
Hermiston School District
drivers at a later date if stu-
dents don’t have a way to
send it in electronically.
Martinez said he would
encourage more Umatilla
families to take advantage
of the free meals.
“On homework days, we
get extra people, so some-
times we’re running short
on lunches, but the rest of
the week, sometimes we’re
coming back with 20 or 30
lunches,” he said.
Trista Thompson is one
of the four MidCo driv-
ers currently delivering
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free meals for Hermiston
School District. The dis-
trict is dropping off break-
fast and lunch separately, in
the morning and afternoon,
to give students something
to look forward to now that
their regular routines have
been upended.
Thompson said it’s gone
“very well” so far, and she
loves to see how excited the
children are as the lunch
bus pulls up.
“For a lot of the kids, it’s
the one time they get out of
the house, and get that lit-
tle touch of freedom,” she
said.
Katie Saul, director of
business services for Herm-
iston School District, said
as of April 17, the district
had served a total of 23,316
meals since Gov. Kate
Brown fi rst closed schools
on March 17.
“We started with just two
bus routes, then increased
to three, and now we’re up
to four routes,” she said.
Since the meals are paid
for by the same federal
funding as normal school
lunches, the same nutri-
tional requirements for a
grain, dairy, fruit and veg-
etable apply. Saul said most
days lunch is some kind
of sandwich with a fruit
and a vegetable and a milk
carton.
Chartwells, the company
the district contracts its
food service through, pre-
pares the meals at Hermis-
ton High School. Teachers
are taking turns going out
with the buses to help with
deliveries. Saul said about
two-thirds of the meals are
delivered to stops around
Hermiston, while one-third
of families prefer to pick
up a meal from the high
school, Sunset Elementary
School or West Park Ele-
mentary School.
When the state fi rst man-
dated that schools close,
school districts were also
given a mandate to con-
tinue providing meals for
students, so that no chil-
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school lunches for nutri-
tion would go hungry. The
meals are free to any child
under age 18, regardless of
whether they are a student
in the district.
Morrow County School
District posted on its web-
site that in the fi rst fi ve
weeks of school closure,
the district has provided
more than 21,000 meals
to students. Buses deliver
meals in Boardman, Irri-
gon and Heppner, and
grab-and-go meals are also
available at Sam Boardman
Elementary, Heppner Jr./Sr.
High and A.C. Houghton
Elementary. On Fridays,
the district sends home
three days’ worth of meals
for students.
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