March 14, 2002
Good nutrition helps
bring academic success
By PATSY ROUNTREE
~ March is National Nutrition
Month. As Child Nutrition
Director of Kings Mountain
District Schools I welcome this
opportunity to share the bene-
fits of a nutritious breakfast and
encourage all elementary school
students to
participate in
our breakfast
program.
The School
Breakfast
Program,
authorized by
the Child
Nutrition Act |
of 1966, started f
as a pilot pro-
gram to pro-
vide funding
for school breakfasts in poor
areas and areas where children
had to travel a great distance to
school. The National School
Breakfast Program became a
permanent program in 1975.
The intent was to provide a
nutritious breakfast to children
who might otherwise not
receive one. Today an average
of seven million children are
served breakfast every school
day in more than 73,000 schools
and institutions.
Since the School Breakfast
Program is a federally funded
program the standards are set
by federal guidelines as to what
the breakfast must provide.
School breakfast provides at
least one-fourth of the nutrients
needed by a growing child.
Breakfast must offer four serv-
ings of food: milk, a fruit or
“vegetable (which can be fruit or
vegetable juice), and two serv-
ings of bread or cereal, or two
servings of protein-rich foods
such as meat, eggs or peanut
butter, or one serving of bread
or cereal and one serving of
protein-rich food. School break-
fasts provide less than 30 per-
cent of their calories from fat,
and 10 percent or less from sat-
urated fat, meeting the U.S.
Dietary Guidelines.
Since 1966 studies and
research have come to support
the benefits of a nutritious
breakfast to all students. A
{dHudy comtpletdd: by ithe State of
Minnesota found that students
who ate breakfast before start-
ing school had a general
increase in math grades and
reading scores, increased stu-
dent attention, reduced nurse
visits and improved behavior.
Researchers at Harvard
ROUNTREE
Medical /Massachusetts General
Hospital found that hungry
children are more likely to have
behavioral and academic prob-
lems than children who get
enough to eat.
In Kings Mountain District
Schools breakfast is offered at
each elementary school. Current
plans are being made to include
the breakfast program in the
new Intermediate School to be
opened in the fall of 2002. Many
parents do not realize that if
their child qualifies for free or
reduced priced meals this
applies to breakfast as well as
lunch. If recent events have
reduced a family’s income, fam-
ilies may wish to look into the
school nutritional program.
Applications for free or reduced
meals are sent home with every
child on the first day of school,
but application may be made at
any time during the school year;
simply contact your child's
principal or school office for an
application. If you are currently
receiving food stamps or TANF
(Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families), the only infor-
mation required is your child’s
name, the food stamp or TANF"
case number, and your signa-
ture. If you are not receiving
any of these benefits, your
application must include the
names of all household mem-
bers and the current amount of
income received by each mem-
. ber. Additionally, you must sign
the application and include
your social security number.
Once the application is returned
to the school, you will be con-
tacted within 10 days. The max-
imum charge for a reduced
price meal is 30 cents for break-
fast and 40 cents for lunch. Even
if you do not qualify for free or
reduced priced meals, you are
still getting a bargain for break-
fast at 75 cents and lunch for
$1.35 in the elementary schools
and $1.45 in middle and high
school. Think about how we
encourage students to get a
good night's rest and eat a good
breakfast on testing days.
Remember, this is just as impor-
tant for your child on the days
the knowledge is being put in
as well as on the days it’s being
given back! Istrorosrn 2H
We invite all elementary stu-
derits to school breakfast.
(Patsy Rountree is Director
of Child Nutrition/Health
Coordinator for Kings
Mountain District Schools).
KM students inducted into NVTHS
Twenty-eight Kings Mountain
high School students were recently
inducted into the National
Vocational Technical Honor Society
at an induction ceremony and
reception held at Cleveland
Community College.
Senior members of the organiza-
tion were also recognized and pre-
sented NV-THS honor cords.
New inductees include Abbey
Kates and Tara Wright, Agriculture
and Natural Resources
Technologies; Justin Boheler,
Brandy Rowland, Elena Thompson,
Wendy Barnette, Trent Hopper,
Rachel Hughes, Garrett Neisler,
Kim Robertson, Lashonda Stowe
_jand Jeremy Owens, Business
Technologies; Justin Bell, Josh
Moore, Tyler McDaniel and Daniel
Willis, Construction Technologies;
Heather Kubu and Brain Scruggs,
Engineering Technologies;
Catherine Gordon, Ashley
Hamrick, Kristie Jones, and Matt
Sigmon, Health Sciences; Ratana
Noinara and Drew Yarbrough,
Industrial Technologies; and
Dannelle Roberts, Andrew
Hudachko, and Natasha Warnack,
Public Service Technologies.
Senior members recognized were
Amanda Berry, Agriculture and
Natural Resources Technologies;
Nathan Carpenter, Heather
Barnette, Britt Talbert, Michelle
Lawson, Lane Echols, and Trisha
Runyans, Business Technologies;
Chris Wright, Construction
Technologies; Alicia Bohannon and
Heather Toney, Health Sciences;
and Wesley Lail, Industrial
Technologies.
The NV-THS is a student organi-
zation that promotes honesty, serv-
ice, and leadership in the school
and workplace. In addition, it pro-
motes and rewards scholastic
achievement in vocational and tech-
nical education. The KMHS voca-
tional and technical education
teachers are Craig Mayes, Liza
Dellinger, Kathy Goforth, Gail
McDougal, Robin Spicer, Wayne
Thompson, Dan Owens, Alfred
Ash, Mary Dilling, Ed Herndon,
Janet Flemming and Kay Stowe.
Nancye Hager and Leslie Martin
serve as co-advisors.
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BEN LEDBETTER / THE HERALD
From left, Danielle Miller (Laurey), Virginia Neisler (Aunt Eller),
and Alex Bennett (Curly) rehearse Monday at Barnes Auditorium
for this weekend’s production of Oklahoma!
band departments.
Bumgardner.
the Wizard of Oz.
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Oklahoma!
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Kings Mountain High School will perform the play Oklahoma!
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The musical was first performed in 1991, and this year’s will be
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