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10 May 2012 | by notable News
10 May 2012
A healthy breakfast is a tool to academic success. Every child has the chance to succeed, if we work together!
"Childhood hunger is a problem in this country and it is something we can easily end." - Chef Bryan Voltaggio, Co-owner of Volt Restaurant.
School Nutrition employees know the importance of a healthy breakfast. Read the below article to see how a celebrity chef is advocating for the most important meal of the day! Working together, we can end childhood hunger.
Read more: http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/education/local-top-chef-joins-the-fight-to-make-sure-every-child-starts-the-day-with-breakfast#ixzz1uTnvEpjN
9 May 2012 | by notable News
9 May 2012
School Nutrition Employee Week is here!
For those of you who follow Child Nutrition News, you know that this week is set aside to recognize all those who work to keep school children happy, healthy, and ready for academic success. This is not an easy job - it requires teams of people in each school to do everything from order food and supplies, create enticing meals children will eat, run the lunch and breakfast lines (in a very short amount of time), deal with paperwork regarding safety issues, maintenance issues, labor hours, fedreal reimbursment, as well as a host of other responsibilities.
At notables, we are proud to work with the people that make a difference each and every day in the lives of these children. Over the course of the next few days, we will call out specific individuals that we feel go above and beyond the call of duty to offer healthy meals to school children across the country.
But, to begin, we would like to express our appreciation for all Child Nutrition Professionals. You make a difference every day. You make a child smile every day. You are important every day. Thank you for all you do.
8 May 2012 | by Jeff
8 May 2012
Jeff's Dad - aka Swanee - checks the trail map during an 80-plus mile 4-wheeler ride in the Black Hills
Turkeys, ATV's and Swanee
I took my annual spring turkey hunting trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota in mid-April, and not only was it a great trip vacation-wise, I was also able to bookend the trip by doing a little business.
On the business side, I scheduled meetings heading out and coming back with the Food Service Directors in three of South Dakota’s largest school districts – Joni Davis of Sioux Falls, Janelle Peterson of Rapid City and Darrel Davis of Pierre. These dedicated public servants are feeding some 37,000 of the state’s more than 125,000 public school K-12 population.
As for the turkey hunting, I bagged my bird within the first two hours of the scheduled four-day hunt just south of Hill City. Normally, being done this early in the hunt would relegate me to being camp cook and having a lot of down time while the rest of my crew was out hiking the hills in pursuit of the elusive Merriam’s wild turkey.
 Jeff with his Merriam's wild turkey, taken on the opening morning of the Black Hills Spring Hunt
This was my sixth consecutive year turkey hunting in the Black Hills, and the last time I filled my tag on the first day, I was able to take the 3-plus hour round trip hike to Harney Peak, the highest summit east of the Rockies all the way to the French Pyrenees. This year, however, I created a memory that is sure to last the rest of my life. The hunting crew included the usual suspects: my brother Mike, my brother-in-law, his brother and dad and another buddy. Rounding out the party was my 72-year-old dad, Roger (but you can call him Swanee!) The great memory we created came from an 80-plus mile 4-wheeler ride we took on Monday.
This ride was awesome due to the beautiful scenery we were able to take in while traversing the ATV trails and logging roads of the southern Black Hills. We saw white-tail deer, mule deer, wild turkeys and eagles, not to mention the breath-taking views from high-up vistas. But what really made this experience great was simply being able to spend time with my dad. No, Swanee is dying or anything. In fact, he’s in better shape than I am, despite being more than 25 years my senior. It’s just that at his age (and mine) you do not want to take such experiences for granted.
I sure didn’t and I already can’t wait for next year!
7 May 2012 | by notable News
7 May 2012
Action for Healthy Kids to Award $1.2 Million to Schools for Wellness Initiatives
Deadline Extended to May 18, 2012.
Thanks to the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, Kelloggs, and Kellogg's Corporate Citizenship Fund, Action for Healthy Kids will be awarding $1.2M to schools for the 2012-2013 school year to support your school nutrition goals.
Funds can go towards supporting a number of school nutrition programs:
- School breakfast programs (Grab n' Go, Breakfast in the Classroom, 2nd Chance)
- School gardens
- Farm to school programs
- Salad bars
- Taste tests
- Healthy classroom parties
- Summer feeding programs
- Nutrition education
- Improving food quality in school stores, a la carte, athletic events, and fundraisers
- And more
Take advantage of these funds to reach your school's goals. The application is simple, and the deadline has been extended to May 18, 2012.
Make your school one of 500+ to receive these funds! Average grant size is $2,000. Granted schools will also receive valuable in-kind contributions from Action for Healthy Kids in the form of people, programs, and school nutrition and management expertise to support your efforts to create long-term positive changes in school breakfast, competitive foods, summer meals, and access to healthy food and nutrition education.
- State Contacts - Action for Healthy Kids has key contacts in many states that can assist you with questions about your grant application. Please use this list to connect with your State Coordinator. They will also be in contact with you to make sure you have what you need to complete your application.
- Grant Application - This is a link to the paper version of the grant application. All schools are encouraged to complete the paper application with your school wellness team. Once completed and reviewed, applications must be submitted online using the links provided in the application. Filling out the paper application will save you time when going to submit online.
- Deadline - As a reminder, the deadline for submitting your application online is May 18, 2012. We encourage schools to submit early if you are satisfied with your proposal. We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted. Contact your State Coordinator for any technical assistance.
- Go to www.ActionforHealthyKids.org/SchoolGrantsforHealthyKids for more i...
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2 May 2012 | by Tom
2 May 2012
We just had our weekly staff meeting this morning, and one of the discussion topics was the School Nutrition Association’s annual conference (ANC) in Denver this July, which we are currently making plane and hotel reservations for. I was telling my colleague, Kathy, that the last time I was in Denver was 1999 when I lived there for about 7 months. I didn’t live there long enough to actually sustain any lasting memories, other than my fear of driving into the Rocky Mountains, which was always an unpredictable, hair raising experience, or riding my bike downtown to see a Rockies game at Coors Field on a nice sunny day. But then I realized, that wasn’t true, because there WAS a memory that will stay with me for the rest of my life…April 20, 1999…Columbine High School.
I was working that morning, making sales visits around Denver, and when I got back to my home office, I called my business partner, Jeff Diers, to tell him about something, and he seemed all distraught. I asked him if something was wrong, and he said “is something wrong? Haven’t you been watching the news…didn’t you hear what happened at Columbine this morning?” I said “No…what happened?”…he said “Turn on your TV…it’s all over CNN, and all the local channels”, so I hung up with him, turned on my TV, and watched the horror that unfolded on that tragic day. I found out later, that one of Jeff’s best friend’s kid was in the cafeteria when everything happened, and after what he witnessed, I know he will carry that with him for the remainder of his life. I lived about 4 miles from the high school, but to this day, 13 years later, I still think about it from time to time.
About a week after the tragedy, I had heard that there was a makeshift memorial that rose up out of nowhere, and that some stranger had driven across the country to erect 13 crosses to honor the 12 students, and their teacher who were killed, so I went over to see it with my own eyes. Words cannot describe what I saw, and read…there was a memorial to each student, and the teacher, and the notes that were sent by people all over the world to show their sorrow, were incredibly heartfelt, each one more tear jerking than the last. What left an indelible impression on me personally, were the living memorials, and signs on display on the student’s cars in the school parking lot….still parked in the same spots. It really hit me how innocent those students were…full of life, and hope, and all they had on their mind that morning when they parked their cars was going to school to learn, and continue in their educational efforts towards a diploma.
I also happened to look on the calendar this morning, and noticed that Friday, May 4th, is the 42nd anniversary of the Kent State Tragedy where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard in 1970. I was in 8th grade when that happened, but I graduated from Kent State, and it was hard to forget that date, because you were reminded of it every day that you were a student at KSU. I finally went back to my alma mater on a trip to Cleveland (my home town) about four years ago. They now have a very sober, but fitting memorial to that tragic event in history in the parking lot where the bullets were fired on unsuspecting students just walking to class.
That’s two instances where institutions of learning were turned into, for lack of a better word, battlefields; where one side had the upper hand, and the other side had no defense. Guns and education have no place being interspersed together, and between Kent State, and Columbine…those were two instances that became moments in American History…for all the wrong reasons.
26 April 2012 | by notable News
26 April 2012
Everyone needs a good start to the day!
Bill Shore and David Kirchhoff talk about the danger of Hunger in New York's public schools in the below article.
http://nydn.us/JpUdw1
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