packing for the weekend

School staff bake ‘Cookies for a Cause’ for Packing for the Weekend families

Dec 29, 2021

For the fifth year in a row the staff of the Lake City Public Schools, through their “Cookies for a Cause” program, have provided plates of homemade Christmas cookies for school families in the Packing for the Weekend (P4W) program. In total this year that amounted to 55 dozen cookies and 37 Chex...

Rotary donates $2,000 to Packing for the Weekend

Nov 10, 2021

The Lake City Rotary Club recently donated $2,000 to the Packing for the Weekend program, which provides weekend meals for children in need. “When Lake City Rotary heard that Packing for the Weekend was in need of more funds, we voted to give them a $2,000 donation. There seems to be a lot more...

Packing for the Weekend helped school distribute over 54,000 summer meals

Sep 1, 2021

Lake City Public Schools held its final summer food distribution event last Thursday. Every week, families with children age 18 and under could stop by Bluff View Elementary School to pick up a week’s worth of breakfasts and lunches for each child. Lake City Public Schools Supt. Erick Enger said...

School staff bakes treats for weekend food program

Dec 23, 2020

For the last four years members of the staff at Lincoln High Svchool have provided plates of homemade treats for the families in the Packing for the Weekend program. Each year during the week before Christmas Amy Brinkman and her group of about a dozen members prepare, package and deliver the...

Ed Foundation fundraising campaign helps fill children’s food program budget

Nov 4, 2020

Al and Gay Thompson had just two weeks to come up with a plan. Packing for the Weekend, a program the couple has administered for the last eight years, received approval to start up again after being paused during COVID-19. Al was delighted to hear he could reinstate the weekend food-delivery...

Free school meals delivered anywhere in school district three times a week

Apr 3, 2020

People don’t have to come to Lake City to take advantage of free meals distributed for people age 18 and under by the Lake City School District. School buses are delivering meals to anywhere in the school district on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Mondays and Wednesdays, children receive two...

Thrivent Action Team donates fruit cups to Packing for the Weekend

Jan 2, 2020

Trissa Wallerich, on behalf of the Thrivent Action Team, presented to Al Thompson, representing Lake City Packing for the Weekend, over 200 fruit cups to be used for their weekly distribution program. Packing for the Weekend provides food for the weekend for over sixty local children each week of...

Old Frontenac church plans 8th Festival of Lights

Nov 20, 2019

Christ Episcopal Church in Old Frontenac will hold its eighth annual Festival of Lights on Saturday, Nov. 30. The event features multi-cultural readings and music by local artists, dozens of candle-lit nativities from around the world on display, outdoor luminarias to light the path, and...

Packing for the weekend rep presents to Rotary Club

Nov 20, 2019

Al Thompson presented to the Lake City Rotary Club on Nov. 18 about Packing for the Weekend. Packing for the Weekend provides families with children with a package of food (in a backpack) for the weekend consisting of a variety of food including bread and milk (and occasionally egg) vouchers for...

Rotary donates to local Packing for the Weekend program

Nov 7, 2019

On Nov. 4, Steven Lang of the Lake City Rotary Club presented a $1,000 donation from the club to the Packing for the Weekend program in Lake City. Packing for the Weekend provides free weekend food for 60 children in 20 families in the Lake City area. For more information or to learn how they can...