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Show School Lunch Week FARMINGTON - For 38 years, , youngsters have had the option of a school hot lunch, although it's evolved from the basics to today's near-smorgesbord, at least for junior anJ senior high school students. TO COMMEMORATE what has now become a tradition for millions across the country. National School Lunch Week is being observed this week. Students across the nation in 90,000 schools will all dine on the same menu one day this week, of "marathon" spaghetti, "maestro" tossed salad, "blue ribbon" fruit choices, a "heavenly" roll, honey-raisin cookie and "ten-der-lovig-carc" milk. Davis School Foods' Supervisor Maxinc Reeves indicates some 28. (HK) students-or nearly two-thirds of those cnroIled--eat school lunch each day, plus 1,238 adults, including several hundred hun-dred senior citizens, all prepared by 380 cooks. IT'S ALL offered at the unchanged price of 70 cents for elementary elemen-tary students, 80 for junior high and 90 cents for high-schoolers, she adds. "School lunch is a real bargain when compared to a sack lunch of equivalent nutritional value," says H. H. Winawer, coordinator coordina-tor and state director for Child Nutritional Programs at the State Office of Education. "WHERE, BUT in the school lunch program, can one get such a well-rounded, nutritious meal for a dollar or lese?" he asks. |