Local Schoolchildren Can’t Read, Write, Or Add, But They’re Still Too Smart To Eat School Lunches In The Summer

PORTLAND — The School Department’s central kitchen, an industrial-scale food preparation operation at the former Reed School, was quiet on Friday as Food Service Director Ron Adams talked about the summer meals program. Three days later, Adams’ department would open three of the four locations it runs in between school semesters as part of a long-running, USDA-sponsored program to combat hunger. The school’s food services operation joined the program three years ago, in part because Adams felt that its massive kitchen was under-utilized during the summer. But among piles of insulated soup thermoses, a fleet of empty food-tray racks, and the kitchen’s sleeping bedroom-sized pizza oven, Adams said that the summer meals program itself operates at well below full capacity. The Food Service Department, which boasts about 60 staff members preparing 5,000 meals a day during the school year, is down to just six summer employees. Only two are on duty specifically to make the 200 meals that get distributed as part of the summer meals program. (read more at The Forecaster)

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