October 12, 2021
October 11-15 is Nationwide College Lunch Week, and we’re celebrating our Vitamin Companies Workers!
Peninsula College District has 58 Vitamin Companies staff, starting from bakers and cooks to kitchen leads, cashiers, drivers, and meals service staff.
On the elementary faculties, staff put together and prepackage breakfasts and lunches to ship to college students in each classroom. On the secondary faculties, staff additionally prepare dinner and put together meals for his or her college students. Sixteen transport carts of meals exit each day from Peninsula Excessive College to be delivered to the vast majority of the remainder of the colleges throughout the district.
“The factor our staff take pleasure in most in regards to the job is figuring out children have a meal each day,” stated Katie Walters, Director of Vitamin Companies. “They’re approachable and pleasant, waving to college students as they stroll by their kitchens.”
Walters stated that the logistics of feeding children throughout the pandemic have been difficult, but their mission to feed children by no means waivered. “This crew has been unimaginable and labored by means of many challenges,” Walters stated. “Even final 12 months, we discovered artistic methods to feed college students within the district and group.”