Area school districts are gearing up for their mid-February winter break and the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is making a last push for donations to its Lunch for the Break program.
Officials with the food bank reported Sunday they were 100 boxes short of providing donated lunches to every student signed up for its program. Lunch for the Break feeds children from low-income families at times of year when school lunch programs are not available.
Lunch for the Break provides a box of food for each school-age child in a family during long school breaks. These boxes are put together and donated by volunteers using an approved shopping list that includes items like peanut butter, jelly, instant ramen noodle cups, granola bars and applesauce.
The cost of a donated box is about $50.
The mid-February break — classified as “Second Winter Break” — will take place Feb. 15-19 in the Issaquah School District and Feb. 11, Feb. 12 and Feb. 15 in the Lake Washington School District.
The food bank will collect donation boxes at three locations 2-7 p.m. Feb. 10. Boxes will be collected at Issaquah’s Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S., Renton’s Water District 90 building, 15606 SE 128th St. and Bellevue’s Sambica summer camp, 4114 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE.
A signup form for donating boxes can be found here.