The Salvation Army has rounded up enough community donations to provide free lunches for 50 children a week during June and July. Separate donations are funding snacks for 75.
“People have donated specifically to make sure kids in Wrangell have food this summer,” said Lt. Jon Tollerud, of the Wrangell Salvation Army.
The program is limited and kids will be enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis, so Tollerud advises parents to call the Army at 874-3753 as soon as possible to sign up their children.
The meals and snacks will start next Monday and run to the end of July. Kids will need to come to the church on Zimovia Highway between 11 a.m. and noon each weekday to pick up their certificate for that day’s lunch.
Same for the snacks — come in each day between 11 a.m. and noon for a snack bag, with three helpings handed out on Friday to cover the weekend, Tollerud said.
Volunteers will be there to distribute the lunch certificates and snacks.
Children will have a choice in the lunch program: They can either receive a certificate good for a slice of pizza and a juice box at Nic’s Place, or a certificate for that day’s menu selection and a juice box at J&W’s.
The program will have 25 certificates for each lunch option every day, Tollerud said, and kids must use them during the lunch hour that day — no saving them for dinner or to redeem several in one day.
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