Moving Toward Health: Pattonville's Food Program Sets 2012 Goal

Pattonville School District’s food service program hopes to work with first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program throughout 2012. Pattonville’s Director of Food and Nutrition Services Teree Davis presented the program’s 2012 goals to the board of education on Tuesday night.

She listed several goals the food service program will strive toward in the new year.

• Maintain a cost-effective program
• Work with the first lady’s Let’s Move program
• Continue to evaluate sugars in food
• Achieve the HealthierUS School Challenge Certification
• Decrease the district’s carbon footprint by financing alternatives to plastics/polystyrene and using more recyclable materials
• Conduct monthly focus groups and surveys of students regarding food services program, and solicit parent input.
• Continue integrating more recipes that give a homemade touch to the menu, and take advantage of reduced price ingredients and commodity products available to the district.

Currently, Rockwood School District is the only district in the St. Louis metro area to be certified by the HealthierUS School Challenge, the challenge's website indicated.

Davis told the board Pattonville’s lunch prices are among the lowest in the area at $2.10 in elementary and secondary schools. She said the program met its 2010 goals, which included being financially sound and decreasing preservatives and fillers in purchased food.

Staff members across the district receive grants

The school board also recognized several staff members from around the district for earning grants from the Pattonville Education Foundation, a “nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the Pattonville School District in providing an excellent education for all of our community's children,” its website stated.

The foundation distributed a total of 13 grants.

• Elizabeth Brisch for “Upgade Lego Technology”
• Mary Sosman and Stacey Hill for “Flags Around the World”
• Sandy Weis for “Parkway Chess Project”
• Julie Finder for “Parkwood Storyteller Program”
• Michelle Wagner, Andrea Hughes and Denita Robinson for “Engaging Whiteboard Software to Promote Active Student Participation”
• Jonathan Striebel for “School of Rock”
• Kelly Paluczak and Lisa Zangriles for “FOR Warmth in the Winter”
• Lisa Zangriles and Christy Cox for “Superhoeroes Leadership Program”
• Teresa Hutti, Denise Thomas and Nina Vogel for “Differentiated Science with Interactive Science Textbooks”
• Kimberly Gindler for “Orchestra Melody/Harmony Grant”
• Carrie Dixon, Travis Williams, Katie Puller and William Wessels for “So You Think You Can Dance…Your Way to Being Fit!”
• Barry Nelson and Greg Schnatmeier for “Eighth-Grade Field Hockey”
• Bath Kathriner for “Pattonville High School Gallery”

The Pattonville School Board will meet next on Jan. 24.