When Lake County Schools established a grab-and-go feeding plan for students who spent the last several weeks of the school year doing distance learning from home, one of the requirements was that students had to be present to receive the meals. Parents were not allowed to pick up meals for students in their absence.
For summer, that requirement is changing.
When parents pick up meals this week, they will receive a “parent meal pickup form.” Once they complete the form, return it, and get it approved by the district’s Food Services office, they will receive a card to place in the front window of their car. The card will indicate the parent’s name and the number of meals they are approved to receive without having their children present.
These registered parents will be listed on a roster at their designated school. Their names will be checked off when they pick up meals from that school. They will not be required to have their children with them.
Parents who do not have an approved card, however, must have the children in the car with them to receive meals.
Meals can be picked up from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The following locations will continue as distribution sites this summer:
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
- Astatula
- Cypress Ridge
- Eustis Heights
- Grassy Lake
- Leesburg
- Lost Lake
- Pine Ridge
- Sawgrass Bay
- Sorrento
- Tavares
- Treadway
- Triangle
- Umatilla
- Villages of Lady Lake
MIDDLE SCHOOLS
- Cecil E. Gray
CHARTER SCHOOLS
- Mascotte
SPRING CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL SUMMER FOOD DISTRIBUTION
The sites listed below use a different vendor and have different operating hours. They distribute meals Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- Spring Creek Charter
- Altoona School
- Sandy Acres Community, 24998 SE Hwy 42, Umatilla, FL 32784
