After seeing Maya Angelou speak back in my college days, I count her as one of the truly wise and empowering individuals in this world. She has been known to say many powerful things and among them is “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” What made me think [...]
Fairview Elementary Breakfast in the Classroom
For school staff in Denver looking for a veteran, after-the-bell breakfast program to observe, Fairview Elementary is the place! This ECE-5 school has been offering Breakfast in the Classroom to its students for 11 years. For the first ten of those, staff delivered breakfasts to three floors, without an elevator! Another notable aspect of their [...]
Help Struggling Families in Colorado, Prevent Devastating Cuts to SNAP
There is much at stake for our neighbors—more than 800,000 Coloradans—who are at risk of hunger. The Senate and House agriculture committees are marking up the Farm Bill, which governs critical anti-hunger programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Cuts to SNAP could significantly undermine Colorado’s ability to provide [...]
Celebrating National Volunteer Week!
All the way to heaven number eleven. B 11, that’s B11. BINGO! An excited lady boasted excitedly amidst tables of balloons, potted flowers, and smiling people. Lots of smiling people all here for the Arapahoe Volunteer Appreciation event during National Volunteer Week. This was the scene I was greeted to as I stepped out of [...]
Guest blog: Trying to Maintain Active Lifestyle With Only $4.56/day
Roughly 72 hours earlier (from the date I started this blog), I began Day 1 of the SNAP Challenge (aka Food Stamp Challenge). Let’s be clear: I’m not trying act as if I’d understand what it’s really like to live a life of poverty where living on food stamps is only part of the struggle. [...]
Fueling success with after-the-bell breakfast in Adams County school district
The morning was still engulfed in darkness, yet inside Adams City High School there was movement and chatter in the kitchen as staff prepared the day’s breakfast—low-fat milk, an apple and a healthy granola. While the school began to bustle with activity as more students arrived, members from a student club, one by one, stopped [...]
Kitchen Manager Offers Core Support for Smiley’s Breakfast in the Classroom
At Smiley Middle School last week, Kitchen Manager Misty Rabb and two of her staff made their rounds to 14 classrooms with cereal, muffins, juice and milk. On the way back to the kitchen as students began to arrive, she was bombarded by friendly pokes, sly smiles, and even song: “I got to move it, [...]
