Students, library dress up for fancy lunch

Washougal — Cindi Freeman’s second- and third-graders at Gause Elementary School got a chance to practice etiquette skills during a special lunch at the school library, which was transformed into a fine dining establishment complete with linens, china and silverware. The students learned about restaurant table manners, as well as how to make a proper greeting. Freeman’s classes were selected for the lunch based off their performance in the Stuff the Bus drive earlier this school year. The students supped on a lunch of Italian wedding soup, Caesar salad with Parmesan crisps, lasagna, green beans, an Italian herb breadstick and a chocolate mousse cup for dessert, which was cooked by Dave Williams, a Sodexo corporate chef. District staffers attended the lunch, and parents from the classes volunteered as servers. “I know to not start eating until everyone is served and to chew with my mouth closed,” Kuryn Morris, one of the students at the lunch, said in a release from the district.