Change of Schedule for Meal Distribution Starting 3.30.20

Friday, March 27, 2020

Due to the governor’s extended school closure of our schools, we are adjusting the schedule of meal distribution to just three days each week. 
We will be distributing on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAYS distributing multiple meals each day.

This is the plan that will begin on Monday, March 30 and continue for the foreseeable future. We will provide a bagged lunch along with a bagged breakfast according to the following schedule:

  • Monday: Monday & Tuesday’s lunch Tuesday & Wednesday’s breakfast
    Wednesday: Wednesday & Thursday’s lunch Thursday & Friday’s breakfast
    Friday: Friday, Saturday & Sunday’s lunch, Saturday, Sunday & Monday breakfast

Who can participate?
Anyone 18 years of age or younger who comes to a distribution site will be provided bagged breakfast and lunch. No proof of income, residency or age is required.

In an effort to ensure program integrity but also provide some leniency for children who may be sick or immunocompromised and should not be going out to the site, we would like you to simply ask the person picking up the meal, "how many children are in the family and where they go to school?"   If the child does not attend school (too young) they are still able to receive a meal for them.

Is it safe?
The food is being prepared in sanitary conditions by our ServSafe certified food service staff, and the bagged meals are being distributed in a grab & go format, three times per week, following social distancing protocols. We are following appropriate hand washing, sanitizing and glove wearing procedures.

If you have any question about this program please contact Director of Business and Operations, Joanne Blier at 863-3251 or joanne.blier@gmrsd.org or Heather Holmes, Food Service Director at heather.holmes@gmrsd.org.

Meals will continue to be available at the same sites and times, as follows:

Turners Falls High/Great Falls Middle School– Front entrance between 11:20-11:50 am

Yellow Kuzmeskus school buses will be distributing along these routes:

Route 1
Hillcrest Elementary (student drop off parking lot) 11:20 – 11:50 am 
Unity Park parking lot 11:55 am – 12:30 pm
Lake Pleasant Rutter’s Park 12:45 – 1 pm

Route 2 
Montague Center Town Common 11:30 – 11:45 am o
Millers Falls (Franklin Street – near Carroll) 12 – 12:20 pm
Sheffield Elementary (main parking lot) 12:30 – 1 pm

Route 3
Montague Catholic Social Ministries, Turners Falls 11:20 -11:35 am
Ervingside Park near Fire Station 11:45 am -12:00 pm
Erving Center (Church Street Park near Fire Station) 12:15 – 12:30 pm
Four Winds School Riverside, Gill 12:45 – 1:05 pm
The Brick house, Turners Falls 1:10 – 1:30 pm

Please click here to see the menu for the upcoming week

Gluten free breakfast & lunch options available. 

Please notify the server if a person in your party has a food allergy.

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

THIS INSTITUTION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER