Announcements 3-23-2020

MONDAY, MARCH 23rd

MEALS LINK TO MEALS FLYER WITH ESSENTIAL INFORMATION The Maple Run Unified School District is now using the Free Summer Feeding Program to help feed the children of our community during the COVID-19 closures. We have our pick-up sites listed below and we are also delivering to bus stops in Fairfield, St. Albans City, and St. Albans Town. Our Delivery times start at 10:30 for St. Albans City and Fairfield, and they start at 11:30 for St. Albans Town. As we continue this program times may change, so please make sure to read or listen to future informational blasts. Remember - there is no charge for this meal program. It is free to all children 18 and under. For people living in Fairfield, St. Albans City, and St. Albans Town we have permission to deliver to bus stops. For any other families, we have 3 pick-up sites in the city open for all children 18 and under even if they are not in our school system. Our charge is to feed our children during this uncertain time. The bus delivery will be once a day Monday through Friday. Someone must come out and meet the bus at the normal bus stops. If you are not there when the bus arrives, a meal cannot be left. For Fairfield and St. Albans City routes, the delivery will be from 10:30-11:30. For St. Albans Town routes, the delivery will be from 11:30-12:30. The package will have lunch for the day and breakfast for the next morning. There will be pick-up sites in the following locations; St. Albans City School, BFA St. Albans and St. Albans Town Education Center. Pickups will be from 11:00-12:30. These sites are also providing two meals in each package, lunch, and breakfast. If you have any questions or want to be added to our meal delivery list, please reach out to the following staff at your prek-8 school: FCS - Brenda Goodhue 827-6639 or bgoodhue@maplerun.org SACS - Jennifer Seymour 527-0565 or jseymour@maplerun.org SATEC -Tammy Deso 752-2700 or tdeso@maplerun.org Here are pictures of some of the staff involved in assembling lunches and breakfasts and hauling it out to the buses for delivery. 3-20-2020

SCHOOL-RELATED NEWS CONTENT WANTED St. Albans City School families and staff members, if you have anything positive to share on the announcements that show what students and adults are doing to promote learning and a sense of community in this time of uncertainty, then please send it on to Mr. Craib at mcraib@maplerun.org. Please add a short descriptive note to go with your content. It would also be helpful if you wrote that you are providing consent to share your images, video clips, artwork, etc... Thank you. MAKERSPACE NEWS Families are sending in images of SACs students working on maker kits that were sent home. Students are building some awesome items.

INTERNET ACCESS FOR VERMONT FAMILIES From our district technology staff... Below are a couple of different resources that are from companies providing free internet access for households without internet. LINK TO COMCAST, CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS, and CHARTER-SPECTRUM information. Xfinity WiFi Free For Everyone: Xfinity WiFi hotspots across the country will be available to anyone who needs them for free – including non-Xfinity Internet subscribers. For a map of Xfinity WiFi hotspots, visit www.xfinity.com/wifi. Once at a hotspot, consumers should select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots and then launch a browser.