CHAPEL HILL
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is being recognized for its ability to deliver high quality summer meals to local children.
The CHHCS-sponsored “Food for the Summer” program was awarded a “Gold Turnip the Beet” award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its efforts in 2016.
The program, which covered 16 neighborhoods, utilized more than 650 volunteers to provide roughly 48,000 lunches and 3,500 books to children last summer to address a “widening summer meal gap.”
With summer beginning for 2017, “Food for the Summer” now provides local, well-balanced food and books to 19 neighborhoods with the support of Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger.