Willmar Schools offering free summer meals for kids

By Linda Vanderwerf

May 28, 2020 at 4:58 PM

WILLMAR — Willmar Public Schools will offer free breakfast and lunch to all children this summer through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program.

The meals will be provided without discrimination on a first-come, first-served basis at two sites in town.

Meals will be provided at Lakeland Elementary School, 1001 Lakeland Dr. S.E., and at Willmar Senior High School, 2701 30th St. N.E., from June 4 through Aug. 21. Meals will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Both sites will be closed July 3.

For more information, please visit www.summereatsmn.org or text “Summer Meals” to 97779.

By Linda Vanderwerf

In 42 years in the newspaper industry, Linda Vanderwerf has worked at several daily newspapers in Minnesota, including the Mesabi Daily News, now called the Mesabi Tribune in Virginia. Previously, she worked for the Las Cruces Sun-News in New Mexico and the Rapid City Journal in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has been a reporter at the West Central Tribune for nearly 27 years.

Vanderwerf can be reached at email: lvanderwerf@wctrib.com or phone 320-214-4340

Willmar Schools offering free summer meals for kids

Free breakfasts and lunches will be available to children at two Willmar school buildings this summer.