2008 Woodie Awards
Thanks to participants in backpack program
Ann L. Landini
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Letters
Thanks to the generosity of Murray State students, faculty and staff, Hart College has delivered more than $1,200 worth of healthy snacks to Needline for use with the Backpack Program. The Backpack Program provides easy-to-prepare or prepared food items to school children in grades K - 5 who would have little, if any, food available to them in their homes on the weekends. Needline provides schools in the Murray and Calloway County districts with food packs that can be placed in the eligible students' backpacks during the last recess on Fridays. For some children, the backpack food may be their only food until they return to school on Mondays for breakfast.
Murray State's generous spirit has been aided by the willingness of Mr. Richard Fritz, director of Food Services, and Ms. Linda Hollingsworth, manager of Winslow Dining Hall, to allow students to donate any unused portion of their meal allowance used at Fast Tracks to the Backpack Program. I'd like to thank the entire staff of Fast Tracks and Winslow for their support of the efforts.
Hart College will continue to collect food items for the Backpack Program through finals week. If you would like to contribute items, you can take them to the front desk of Hart.
If you have money left when you pay for items at Fast Tracks, please consider donating the unused portion to the program.
Hart College plans to continue working with the Backpack Program when classes resume in the fall, and we would invite you to join with us in providing food to those school children in Murray and Calloway County who have little, if any, food in their homes on the weekends.
Sincerely,
Ann L. Landini, Ph.D.
Faculty Head, Hart College
Murray State's generous spirit has been aided by the willingness of Mr. Richard Fritz, director of Food Services, and Ms. Linda Hollingsworth, manager of Winslow Dining Hall, to allow students to donate any unused portion of their meal allowance used at Fast Tracks to the Backpack Program. I'd like to thank the entire staff of Fast Tracks and Winslow for their support of the efforts.
Hart College will continue to collect food items for the Backpack Program through finals week. If you would like to contribute items, you can take them to the front desk of Hart.
If you have money left when you pay for items at Fast Tracks, please consider donating the unused portion to the program.
Hart College plans to continue working with the Backpack Program when classes resume in the fall, and we would invite you to join with us in providing food to those school children in Murray and Calloway County who have little, if any, food in their homes on the weekends.
Sincerely,
Ann L. Landini, Ph.D.
Faculty Head, Hart College
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