School food kits offered
During at least the first nine weeks of school (and all year for students in 100 percent online learning), Bainbridge Island School District is offering weekly meal kits.
Orders are placed by Monday for the following week’s meals. Meal kit pick-up is on Fridays at Sakai from 10 a.m. to noon. Meal kits are ordered by the week — no “picking and choosing” of days.
The kits include breakfast and lunch. Options are: Meat Meals (Meal Kit A); Vegetarian Meals (Meal Kit B); Gluten-Free Meat Meals (C); Gluten-Free Vegetarian Meals (D); Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free with Meat Meals (E); Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Vegetarian Meals (F).
Cost varies, but a middle school student would pay $30 for five school days of breakfasts and lunches.
Also, free and reduced-price lunches may be obtained by any student whose family income falls within the guidelines set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And, those families might be eligible to get help with food benefits due to COVID-19 school closures. The benefits are called Pandemic EBT Emergency School Meals Program.
Contact the district for details about all these programs.
Raise glass for PAWS
PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap will have its annual gala “Raise a Glass to 45 Years with PAWS!” Sept. 19 from 4- 5:30 p.m. – but it will be virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Even though it’s online it will still include entertainment, live auction, games and lots of pictures and stories about companion animals in our community.
The gala helps raise funds for the programs that PAWS provides the community, including adoption services,
veterinary financial aid, and spay/neuter assistance programs. PAWS also offers the Pets and Loving Seniors (PALS) program, which places harder-to-adopt senior animals in the homes of limited income senior adults, with food, litter and veterinary care; and the SafeHarbor program, providing free housing and care for pets of families in crisis, including hospitalization due to Covid 19.
Tickets are $45 each and can be obtained at pawsbink.org/paws-gala/. For details call 206-842-2451 or email paws@pawsbink.org.
Bloedel fundraiser
Bloedel Reserve is having an auction, shopping spree and membership drive through Sept. 7.
Auction items include: Specific Bloedel experiences; $200 gift certificates to local restaurants, casinos, drinking establishments; and many other items valued at up to $500.
Check them out online to participate.
Finalist for Ms. Vet America
Liza Tolentino Gainey is a finalist for this year’s Ms. Veteran America.
She graduated from Central Kitsap in 2000 then completed her undergrad at Seattle University with an ROTC scholarship. She separated from the Army in 2015 after serving 11 years as a nurse and physician assistant. She recently completed her Doctorate in Medical Science.
Ms. Veteran America is an advocate for Final Salute Inc., a nonprofit that helps homeless women veterans and their children. Women veterans are the fasting-growing group in the homeless population, and 70 percent are single mothers.
She also volunteers at her local food bank, and is fundraising for Final Salute Inc. Like, share,and support her @LizaG4MVA2020 or on twitter @G4Liza.
AA meetings via Zoom
Alcoholics Anonymous meets daily on Bainbridge Island via Zoom.
For links and phone numbers see www. bainbridgeislandgrp.org
Birth
Vanessa and Matthew Anderson of Bainbridge Island had a son, Theodore, at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle June 6, 2020, at 2:54 a.m. He weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces and was 19 inches long. He has a brother William, 5, and a sister Ravenna, 3. Grandparents are Angelo and Christine Toglia of Bainbridge Island and Kirk and Patricia Anderson of Kingston.
