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A food program, believed to be the first of its kind in Michigan, opened Wednesday at Centreville High School.
Superintendent Chad Brady welcomed district officials, community stakeholders, representatives from Michigan Farm Bureau and media members to the kickoff of Centreville Public Schools Food Club.
The in-school market is designed to get food, toiletries and other necessities into the hands of Centreville Public Schools’ families free of charge.
Four double-sided, metal shelving units were assembled in a former teacher’s lounge in the junior high wing of the seventh-through-twelfth-grade building.
Stocking and replenishing the shelves involves a number of partnerships, including South Michigan Food Bank, Meijer, Michigan Farm Bureau family of companies, and business and private donations, Brady said.
Food Club is open to any family that has a student, from Young 5s to high school senior, attending Centreville Public Schools. Every family, no matter how many children they have, is awarded 25 points a week. Food items are available based on a point-value system.
Brady said the 900-student district has a free-and-reduced-lunch population of 53 percent.
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