Woodland families receive free meals from school district

WOODLAND — Woodland Public Schools began food delivery services for families on March 18 following wide school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That week, an “army of cooks, paraeducators and other school staff” prepared 800 bags with breakfast and lunch items, according to a news release. Then bus drivers and paraeducators drove throughout Woodland delivering the meals to children 18 years and younger for free. Staff followed “strict social distancing guidelines” in which paraeducators on a bus counted the number of children in a family and then placed that many meals on the bottom step at the closed door of the bus. Then, the driver opened the doors so the family could take the meals with no contact. To find out more about the program, visit woodlandschools.org/o/district/page/covid-19-updates.