Wood County Schools hands out student meals
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- People line up in the parking lot of the former south Parkersburg Kmart Wednesday as school meals are unloaded from a tractor trailer. Wood County Schools distributed about 6,000 cases of food Wednesday as part of a county-wide student meals program. (Photo by Michael Erb)
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- Wood County Schools volunteers unload cases of food Wednesday in the parking lot of the former Kmart in south Parkersburg. Thousands of meals for students were distributed throughout the county. (Photo by Michael Erb)
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- Each meal box contained food for five days of lunches and breakfasts for students, and included a guide on how to store and prepare the meals. (Photo by Michael Erb)
PARKERSBURG — Volunteers with Wood County Schools distributed thousands of meals Wednesday to families throughout the county. The cases, each containing food for five lunches and five breakfasts, are part of a county student meals program, helping keep kids fed during the statewide shutdown of schools due to COVID-19. Superintendent Will Hosaflook said some sites ran out of meals Wednesday, but were able to procure more cases from other nearby sites. Officials will increase the number of meals available at those locations. The program is expected to distribute meals every Wednesday while schools remain closed, but Hosaflook said the size and timing of meal shipments could affect those dates.
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