BackPack program in fifth year at CAL

By: 
Ethan Stoetzer

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     As the season of giving falls upon Franklin County, so continues the giving at CAL school.
     Having come up and running the last several weeks, CAL enters its fifth year with the BackPack Program, an initiative through the Food Bank of Iowa. The program’s design is “to lessen the consequence of chronic childhood hunger by providing a sack of kid-friendly, easy-to-prepare foods to low-income elementary school children on weekends when they do not have access to the federal free and reduced-price meal program,” according to the food bank’s website.
     District Administrator Steve Lane said that there are currently 22 students in the program, from K-5. Each Friday (or in cases of short weeks, the last day before school is dismissed) Superintendent and Board Secretary Amanda Heiden and Nancy Keehn deliver bags of non-perishable food into childrens’ backpacks. 
     Read the full article in the December 28 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.

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