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| SIP summer camp from Karla Waite’s group stopped by the Springfield Family Center to donate food items to the community food shelf. |
Our program began on June 24th and will run until August 23rd.
Our first week we were grateful to have the assistance of members of the Catholic Daughters here again helping us prepare the lunches and snacks each morning. Thank you to those of you who devoted your time to help with our program!
Families in Springfield with children ages 3 to 18 and who qualify for free or reduced price school lunches can still sign up. Call Melanie today at (802) 885-3646 ext. 205.
We are still looking for groups or individuals who would like to assist with a week of lunch prep. Call today to sign up your group for a fun activity or your classmates to get in some community service hours!
We would also like to thank the participants of the HCRS SIP summer camp from Karla Waite’s group for dropping of many useful and much needed items to help stock our food shelf!
--Springfield Family Center
Who is supplying/paying for these "free or reduced price school lunches" during the non-school year?
ReplyDeleteReally?? This is a program that supplies KIDS food. Sometimes this is the only meal these kids recieve during the day. I have no idea who suppies or pays for this, just see the good in this story.
ReplyDeleteReally??? Isn't their current "Free" WIC, Food Bank, Welfare and Food Stamps enough to by these kids food?
DeleteSince when does the School lunches run into the non-school year? Lack of logic by the bleeding hearts.
Let me get this straight, without this program these kids go hungry? That even with endless safety nets including WIC, food shelf, and EBT cards, prepared meals have to be delivered to individual homes???? That their parents can't make sandwiches and have fresh fruit available if they are working? "Working" being an unlikely scenario.
ReplyDeleteAre monthly welfare checks adjusted if receiving these additional, bonus benefits? Reeks of a popular scam of EBT card holders. Trade groceries for beer & drug money. When questioned, "how do your kids eat?" I'm told, non issue, go to the family center and it's just free for the asking.
Bottom line as I see it, they need to be put in foster care with a responsible guardian and three square meals a day.
The economic collapse of this country and ensuing restructure can't come soon enough.
You can't have a good workforce unless you have a healthy workforce. You don't get a healthy workforce when children grow up malnourished. Without adequate nutrients, brain growth and development suffer, and the child is handicapped for life. When you have parents who don't have a job, you have children at risk for malnutrition. The same for parents who buy processed foods instead of fresh fruits and vegetables. And certainly the same in the case of children having to make their own breakfast and after-school snacks because both parents are working. So, ensuring kids get at least one substantial meal a day is good for the country.
DeleteSecond, when farmers can't sell their stuff because people have no money, it's bad for the farmers, so it makes sense for the government to keep farmers in business by buying their food and getting it to the people who can't afford it. Food Stamps prevented starvation and rescued family farming in the Depression. So, seeing kids have a chance to grow well is good business as well as good policy.
Hello, don't you vote!!! Springfield tax payers pay for this food. They ask for $60,000.00 and every year it gets voted in. I'll just throw this thought out there (I have once before):
DeleteThe government has ruled that it is a federal crime to feed the animals in our nations natural parks. The thought process is that the animals will become dependant on the food given to them and they will not learn to fend for themselves. Maybe this thought process should leak into the human population as well.
Doesn't matter the circumstance, if a child is hungry, they shall be fed. Get off your soapbox, pray your family never falls between the cracks of making just enough not to qualify for any help but not enough to pay the most basic of bills.
DeleteJust feeding the child does nothing to correct the root cause of the problem. So get off YOUR soapbox.
DeleteRecent legislation prohibits feeding bears. At least our Fish & Game Dept recognizes creating a dependency on handouts deters self reliance.
ReplyDeletehttp://vtdigger.org/2013/06/24/new-vermont-law-dont-feed-the-bears/
9:43, a bear that cruises garbage cans spends four hours fewer per day hunting for food. You want more and bigger bears, feed them. Most people probably don't.
DeleteI don't think F&G really worries so much about ursine self-reliance as it does about the flood of phone calls about "There's a bear in my back yard!"
Hateful and ignorant "Machinist". Doesn't matter the circumstance, if a child is hungry, they shall be fed. Get off your soapbox, pray your family never falls between the cracks of making just enough not to qualify for any help but not enough to pay the most basic of bills. Shame on your 'mightier than thou' stance. You are a total disgrace to springfield and this country.
ReplyDeleteThat IS pretty bad if these "parents" (and I use the term loosely) cannot or will not fix lunches for their own children.
ReplyDeleteIt really makes you wonder why DCF doesn't intervene and find decent homes for these kids. Oh wait, I forgot, DCF is useless, a taxpayer's black hole.
Maybe there should be a special program to train these "parents" on how to make a PBJ and pick out an apple or a banana so their kids don't starve?
Jean, "these 'parents' " happen to be the third generation of children born with a TV already in the house. From the very start, they had very, very bad notions of nutrition planted in their minds. it is a strong uphill battle to get people to think about what good food and good dietary practices are after a lifetime of exposure to for-profit TV commercials. In 2003, the food industry's TV advertising was around $8 billion, but the entire FDA budget to promote healthy dietary habits was equal to the year's ad expenditures for Altoid breath mints.
DeleteWhat would you like to see done about this problem?
There you go again,,,way off topic. This is about how to feed children and at the same time build them into responisble adults that won't rely on the Government (and us who work two jobs) to support them.
DeleteYou must think the general population is a bunch of nimwits who are nothing but zombies to TV and what ever else in marketed in this free world. Humans have brains, they can make choices and they should be held accountable for those choices. It shouldn't make a difference if they watch TV or not.
11:21, if you take a fish that has been in salt water all its life and put it in fresh water, it will die. It's the equivalent of expecting a child who has been watching commercial TV an average of seven hours a day to make sensible choices. Until you understand the difference between commercial and non-profit TV, you will not have a clue as to just how brutal TV is to children's minds.
DeleteI'll leave it with this: TV is the stranger in the house who says what he wants to the kids, without any correction from the parents, and one of the things he says on an average of every 15 seconds is a sexual reference. Your volley.
Yes. People circumvent the system ALL the time, but should the kids be the one to suffer? Unfortunately, fresh fruit and veggies are not as cheap as the processed food that usually fills the grocery carts of folks on assistance. I see it time and time again at the grocery store. Carts full of frozen dinners, pizzas and Chef BoyRDee meals. The kids shouldn't suffer for their parent's choices.
ReplyDeleteThe government should discourage the consumption of junk food by heavily taxing it and then using the money to subsidize the cost of fresh produce, cutting the prices on fruits and vegetables by at least half.
DeleteI'd like to think my freedom of choice extends to food stuffs, regardless of its nutritional value. Nor does the govt need to be further interfering with the free market system. Look what's happened to corn with mandated alcohol fuel blend.
DeleteWhat I have a problem with is waiting inline at Park St Market for a great deli sandwich as a parade of unemployed, heavily tattooed, muffin-top, welfare moms parade in with their rudely behaved spawn and a cell phone glued to their ear. True to stereotypes, they load the counter with junk food and prime steaks then shamelessly produce an EBT card as the guttersnipe howl in delight.
Want proof, drive past the local section 8 housing most any warm evening and smell the BBQ steak dinners you and I are funding. Now I have pay for their lunch delivery too? At what point is enough, enough? Want a handout, then pass a drug screening test and consider your self lucky to subsist on the same food we had to grow up on, including ample fresh fruits and vegetables.
I'd like to think my freedom of choice extends to food stuffs, regardless of its nutritional value. Nor does the govt need to be further interfering with the free market system. Look what's happened to corn with mandated alcohol fuel blend.
DeleteWhat I have a problem with is waiting inline at Park St Market for a great deli sandwich as a parade of unemployed, heavily tattooed, muffin-top, welfare moms parade in with their rudely behaved spawn and a cell phone glued to their ear. True to stereotypes, they load the counter with junk food and prime steaks then shamelessly produce an EBT card.
Want proof, drive past the local section 8 housing most any warm evening and smell the BBQ steak dinners you and I are funding. Now I have pay for their lunch delivery too? At what point is enough, enough? Want a handout, then pass a drug screening test and consider your self lucky to subsist on the same food we had to grow up on, including ample fresh fruits and vegetables.
4:48, the foods approved for EBT card use and those made available to school meal programs are largely determined by agribusiness, despite lobbying to the contrary by the Centers for Disease Control, the American Medical Association, etc.
DeleteVoldemort-- excuse me, I mean Rick Scott, governor of Florida-- insisted on drug testing for Food Stamp beneficiaries and the state spent over half a million dollars to detect and expel from the program enough recipients to save $78 in food stamps. So much for being a civic-minded Republican!
On the other hand, I think you have a good point about children learning in school how to garden. Once you've seen "Food, Inc." or "The Future of Food," you'll want them to know how.
Re: Admin 12:57 PM
DeleteThat's the problem with today's government and taxes. The government should NOT be using the tax codes to modify peoples behaviors, taxes are for social infrastructure, not behavior modification.
Is this government run? If so, why is the government displacing responsibility away from the parents?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of processed food, what are those people holding up for the camera in that picture? Looks like boxed mac n cheese, spaghetti sauce in a jar, Knott's berry farm grape jelly and Hellman's mayonnaise.
ReplyDeleteA happy group of future democrats.
ReplyDeleteI want to take back what I wrote now that I recognize one of the kids. I know the story behind that kid.
ReplyDeleteThe kid's mother is a piece of work - crack head, did drug crime, stole to feed her habit and even broke into her own father's house to steal.
The father (now in his 60s) stepped up to the plate to take care of his grandkids. He also too the step of helping get his own daughter thrown into jail.
DCF in their infinite stupidity objected to the fact that the two kids (male and female) were sharing a bedroom and insisted that the grandfather get a bigger (and more expensive) apartment. Since there was a danger that the morons at DCF would return custody of the kids back to the crackhead mother, grandma and grandpa found and paid for a bigger place.
Now the grandfather has had a heart attack and can no longer work (the state took away his CDL.). The grandmother has had a stroke. These are people who worked all of their lives and paid into the system. They are in their mid sixties and are taking care of teenagers on top of dealing with their own health problems. They are both very proud people but I think they are at the end of their rope and worried about what will happen to those grandkids if anything happens to them.
I wonder how many of these needy kids that are pictured have a cell phone in their pocket and a big screen TV at home?
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