The Oregon-Davis School Corporation has gotten $2,000 to help make sure students get the nutrition they need. Last week, the school board accepted a donation from the Santa’s Workshop program of the First Presbyterian Church of Walkerton and United Methodist Church of Walkerton. That money will be used for feeding children or to help with lunch debt.
School Board Member Chris Lawrence expressed his appreciation. “Two thousand dollars is a great donation, so I’d like to really thank them for that,” he said.
The school corporation also made its own donation, sending supplies and materials to the Starke County Health Department. Education Consultant Jim Dermody said the effort was organized by School Nurse Tricia Huitt and other staff members. “In the situation that the whole globe finds itself in, these are important things for these heroic people from the Health Department who are going out and putting their own health at risk, so it’s, I think, really important and a very kind gesture,” Dermody said.
The school board officially approved the donation to the Starke County Health Department during last week’s meeting.
