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Please consider the
Post Foundation of Battle
Creek in your bequest plans
and give a memorial that will
go on forever.Call 269.962.2181 for personal
assistance.Gov. Whitmer on July 10
announced that the newly passed
education budget for next school
year will continue providing uni-
versally-free breakfast and lunch to
Michigan’s 1.4 million public school
students throughout the school year.
““In the budget for next school
year, we are ... providing free break-
fast and lunch for every student
throughout the school year and over
the summer, too. Free school meals
save parents $850 per year per kid
and valuable time every morning.
When students are fed, they can
focus better in class.”
The FY25 budget allocates funding
to ensure that free school breakfasts
and lunches throughout the school
year will continue to be available to
students next year.
It is projected that Michigan
schools will have served 76.3 million
breakfasts and 135.6 million lunches
to students throughout the 2023-
school year.Funding to guarantee
free school meals
next year
The Calhoun County Public
Health Department has added two
more free, walk-in hearing and
vision screenings.
These are for school-aged
children who are getting ready
to start kindergarten in Calhoun
County, a recent press release
stated.
The screenings will happen at the
department’s Battle Creek office,
located at 190 E. Michigan Ave.
Screening dates and times are
Friday, Aug. 16 from 8 a.m. to
noon; and Monday, Aug. 19,
from 8 a.m. to noon and 1-4 p.m.
Screenings will be on a first-
come, first-served basis. Noappointments.
It is important that parents take
advantage of these opportunities
to ensure their children’s health
and readiness for school, the
Health Department said.
“If your child has received a
blue slip from a screening at a
preschool, daycare or kindergar-
ten round-up, they do not need to
be seen again,” the CCPHD said.
“Blue slips must be turned in to
your child’s school as proof of
the hearing and vision screening.”
More information can be found
by calling 969-6370 or going
online to http://www.calhouncountymi.
gov/publichealth.Free childhood hearing,
vision screenings offered
Prairie Farms Dairy is closing out
its National Dairy Month celebration
by making donations of lactose-free
milk gallons to 40 Feeding America
partner food banks in the South
and Midwest, including the South
Michigan Food Bank in Battle Creek.
“Prairie Farms regularly engages
with our food bank partners throughout
America’s heartland, and we’re hearing
from them that requests for lactose-
free milk continue to accelerate. Since
our company is shaping the future of
accessibility to lactose free milk, it
seemed fitting to coordinate a compa-
ny-wide donation to help neighbors in
need,” said Matt McClelland, CEO/
EVP of Prairie Farms Dairy, based in
Edwardsville, Ill., and with a facility in
Battle Creek.
He added, “The timing for the
donations could not have been bet-
ter because not only is June National
Dairy Month, but it also marked the
start of the production of fresh lac-
tose free milk in family-size gallons
at many of our manufacturing facili-
ties.”
During the final week of June, more
than 25,000 gallons of free milk will
be donated to Feeding America part-
ner food banks in Arkansas, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Wisconsin and Texas.
Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. is a large
dairy cooperative operating in the
Midwest and the South.Prairie Farms donates lactose-free milk to food banks