Free lunches for the summer

I know it is difficult to decide what should be for lunch for the kids while they are out of school. This summer, Topeka Unified School District 501 is giving parents a reprieve from the lunch time blues (not to mention not having to buy food to feed the hollow legs that run around my house).

USD 501 is offering free lunches for kids age 4 - 18 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church 1275 SW Boswell Avenue every Monday through Friday for the summer (I expect them not to have the lunches on holidays though). I don't know why they are doing this. The kids that eat do not need to live in the neighborhood, nor do they not need to be eligible for the free/reduced-cost lunch program for the district. Heck, the kids don't even have to go to public school to get the lunches.

This seems to be an unpublished thing. I cannot find any information about it on the district website, nor the local news rag website, nor the city website. The only way we found out about is that Mrs. Beeson (the neighborhood 'grandma') came by the house on Monday night and told us all about it. Apparently she is doing some chaperoning for the lunches.

Their hopes are to have 20 or more kids eating each day. The lunches are not PB-n-J sandwiches. They are cooked, hot meals. Yesterday my younguns at "chicken rings" (whatever those are) with potato stars and some veggie with milk. All for free! (woo hoo).

Number One Son said it didn't look like enough food to fill him up, but in the end, he ate everything and it was. Little Sister said she wouldn't go today because they are having burritos and she doesn't like burritos. I tried to explain that it was school cafeteria burritos, which meant they probably weren't much like real burritos, but she wasn't having any of that.

Who said there was no such thing as a free lunch?

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