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Apolonio Hicks

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:56:26 PM8/3/24

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May 7th is National School Lunch Hero Day and to celebrate, Nebraska SNAC reached out to administrators, teachers, nutrition staff, and parents and asked them to nominate school nutrition heroes in their communities.
We received over 50 nominations of school nutrition heroes!

The organization, planning, and thoughtfulness that Judy and her team performed day in and day out is commendable. They worked long, hard hours and put the needs of our most vulnerable students and families first. Since students have returned to school this past fall, Judy and her team have ensured that breakfast and lunch procedures follow health and safety guidelines including packaging food, serving meals, and lunchroom protocols.

Since the middle of February, Jackie has basically been operating the school breakfast and lunch program by herself. Due to two employees of the kitchen staff, unexpectedly left due to uncontrollable circumstances and since that time, Jackie has completed every task by herself on a daily basis. Our dishwasher lady has been having some health issues as well, so there are some days she is absent from work. We have been very fortunate to have teachers, paras and administrators step in and help Jackie to serve the food and to clean the dishes. Jackie arrives early to work and stays late to make sure breakfast and lunch will be ready to be served to the students.

Janice has worked tirelessly to provide nutritious meals for our students, whether the students are quarantined or in school. Janice works to provide these meals by coming to School at 4:30 am and leaves usually around 3:30 never complaining about her job, but instead always saying to her staff we need to keep on working through this for our students. Believe me when she says our students she means it.

Every student in our school knows Janice and she takes time each day to greet our students as they go through our lunch and breakfast lines. When the admin team discussed alternative ways to feed our students this year, Janice had great ideas to accomplish this task. Ultimately, she agreed that students should eat in their classrooms this year to help with social distancing. I believe Wynot has the best lunches in the state and it is because every meal is made with love.