Fridley Public Schools Expand Its Meal Service From March 30

Press release from Fridley Public Schools:

Beginning Monday, March 30, Fridley Public Schools will expand its meal service options to provide bagged lunch and breakfast for all students.

MEAL DISTRIBUTION GUIDELINES

To support required guidelines for social distancing, and to ensure an efficient process of distributing meals to students, please be aware of the following:

• Students must be 18-years-old or younger to receive meals.
• Students must be present when picking up meals.
• When picking up meals, please maintain social distancing of 6 feet from others in the line and staff. If you are coming to one of the listed stops, please line up in a single file line behind the posted orange cones.
• You will be able to pick up one bagged meal containing lunch for the day and breakfast for the next day for each child 18-years-old and younger.
• Upon arriving at a school meal distribution site, please take the food bags from the table. If you are not able to get out of your vehicle, a staff member will hand you the food bags. To prevent back up, we are asking that parents and students leave the area as soon as they have received their meals.
• No meals will be consumed on site. Please take the meals with you and eat at home.
• Distance learning materials will also be available for students who do not have technology.

MEAL DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS

Families can pick up meals at the following school locations (meals distributed Monday - Friday):

• 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Fridley High School - Door 16, horseshoe parking lot by gym doors in front of building
• 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Hayes Elementary Schools - bus drop off area in front of the building

Bus stop locations (meals distributed Monday - Friday):

• 11:00 am: Rice Creek Town Homes - 68th Avenue, second/middle set of mailboxes
• 11:00 am: Commons Park - north end parking lot off 7th Street and 63rd Avenue
• 11:00 am: Redeemer Church - parking lot
• 11:30 am: Fridley Area Learning Center (ALC) - parking lot
• 11:30 am: Medtronic Parking Lot - Medtronic Parkway parking lot just east of 7th Street
• 11:30 am: River Pointe Apartments - north garages
• 12:00 pm: Totino-Grace High School - parking lot
• 12:00 pm: Home Depot in Fridley - parking lot
• 12:00 pm: Georgetown on the River Apartments - sidewalk north of office

Map of school meal distribution locations:

Additional School Meal distribution sites:

In addition to the meal distribution locations in our school district, students who are open enrolled can access school meals at locations closer to them in their home school districts. Our Fridley students who live in Columbia Heights, Minneapolis, or Spring Lake Park School Districts: Please click on the links below to find the meal distribution site closest to you.

Columbia Heights Public Schools
Minneapolis Public Schools
Spring Lake Park Public Schools

Our Fridley students enrolled through Northwest Suburban Integration School District (NWSISD): Please click on the links below to find the meal distribution site closest to you.

Anoka Hennepin Schools
Brooklyn Center Schools
Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools
ISD 782 (Elk River, Otsego, Rogers, Zimmerman)
Osseo Area Schools
Rockford Area Schools

If you are not sure about your home district boundaries, please visit NWSISD information and resource page.

This press release was produced by Fridley Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.