Got cereal? Milk optional.Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Tyerone Holmes knocked back a mouthful of Vanilla vanilla, a plant of the genus Vanilla of the family Orchidaceae (orchid family). Vines of hot, damp climates, most are indigenous to Central and South America, especially Mexico, but are now cultivated in other tropical regions. Crunchies and pronounced them good. "This part tastes like cookies," said the 15-year-old Kalapuya High School student, pointing to the granola clusters in the cereal packet. The snack-sized portions of the breakfast cereal breakfast cereal, a food made from grain, commonly eaten in the morning. The oldest type of cereal, known as porridge or gruel, requires cooking in water or milk. The modern breakfast cereals, however, are entirely precooked and eaten in cold milk. are cropping up in some Lane County schools, thanks to a collaboration among three Eugene manufacturers and nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. FOOD for Lane County. Cereal maker Golden Temple, oat oat member of the plant genus Avena in the family Poaceae. oats see avenasativa. oat grain seed of Avena sativa, and as 'oats' the favored grain for the feeding of horses. processor Grain Millers and honey maker Glory Bee have teamed up to create the cereal for students, and FOOD for Lane County is helping distribute it at schools that don't have access to federally funded breakfast programs. The manufacturers and the nonprofit organizations Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. are providing the cereal free of charge. Kalapuya, the Bethel School District Bethel School District may refer to:
Some of the students come from low-income families, and the free cereal ensures that they can start their day with a nutrious meal. In the afternoon, it provides a boost that has more staying power than the snacks available in the vending machine vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. , Crissman said. Golden Temple developed the idea of providing students with free cereal as part of its ongoing strategy of contributing to the community, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Kartar Singh Khalsa said. Golden Temple produces organic breakfast cereals This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nestlé, The Quaker Oats Company, and Post Cereals, but similar equivalent products are often sold by other manufacturers and as store own and teas for sale nationwide, and often makes some of its products available to the food bank for distribution to families in Lane County. A chance conversation with food bank staff members about the academic challenges children face when they haven't had a nutritious nutritious /nu·tri·tious/ (noo-trish´us) affording nourishment. nu·tri·tious adj. Providing nourishment; nourishing. nutritious affording nourishment. breakfast led to the new product, Khalsa said. "We got hold of our long-term suppliers and asked if they wanted to help us," he said. They did. Now, the cereal manufacturer is packaging 8,000 packets of the cereal each month. It's being distributed in the Pleasant Hill School District and at Siuslaw High School in Florence, food bank Executive Director Pat Farr said. As word has gotten out, there have been inquiries from other schools - in Oakridge and Eugene - that are interested in having the cereal available. The program is the only one of its kind that Farr is aware of. "I was excited when I first heard about it, and once I saw the packaging and tasted the product, I got more excited,' he said. `There's nothing like this happening anyplace an·y·place adv. To, in, or at any place; anywhere. See Usage Note at everyplace. Adv. 1. anyplace - at or in or to any place; "you can find this food anywhere"; (`anyplace' is used informally for `anywhere') anywhere else." While the food bank contracts with the federal government to provide lunches for school-age children during the summer, it's the agency's first venture with providing food during the school year. The effort is part of Golden Temple's mission of social responsibility, Khalsa said. "Our job is to expand our business and do better on the bottom line so we can serve the community." Golden Temple has had a prosperous four years, doubling its business and increasing its employees from 110 to 200. `As we do better, we want to up the philanthropic game," Khalsa said. The production of 8,000 packages a month is just the beginning, he said. "We hope it goes up to 10 times that here in the next couple years." And that would be just fine with Jennifer Replogle, an 18-year-old Kalapuya student, who enjoys having the cereal available. If she had her choice between a candy bar and the cereal, she'd choose the Vanilla Crunchies, Replogle said. "They taste good, and they're healthy for you, too," she said. CAPTION(S): Kalapuya High School students Tyerone Holmes, 15, (front) and Chris Mershon, 16, eat Vanilla Crunchies cereal, a free nutritious snack distributed to local schools by FOOD for Lane County, with the help of food manufacturers Golden Temple, Glory Bee and Grain Millers. `There's nothing like this happening anyplace else." - PAT FARR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY |
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