Food and fun were both on the menu Monday as free summer lunches for kids returned to the Lawrence Public Library and launched at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Kids ages 18 and younger can eat free lunches at both sites on weekdays in Lawrence. Lunch programs are funded by the federal Summer Nutrition program.
Lunches will be offered Mondays through Fridays until Friday, July 26:
• 11 a.m. to noon at Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.; and
• noon to 1 p.m. at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
Sites will be closed on June 19 and July 4 and 5 for holidays. The arts center site will also be closed June 14 and July 19.
Kids eat free, and adults can purchase meals for $5 each. Lunches must be eaten onsite. See a menu for the library at this link and for the arts center at this link.
Once a week, families can also pick up five days of breakfast and lunch kits to prepare meals at home. Kits include five breakfasts, five lunches, five cartons of 1% plain milk and five cartons of 1% chocolate milk, according to a registration form for families. Meal preparation instructions will be attached.
Kits will be available for pickup on Tuesdays from June 4 through Aug. 6 at Youth Sports Complex, 4911 W. 27th St. in Lawrence.
Registration is required by noon on the Friday before the intended meal kit pickup so that organizers can prepare. One form can be filled out per family. Sign up via this Google form. (The form will reopen at noon Tuesday, June 4 to register for next week.)
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Lane Rozin (he/they), a contributor to The Lawrence Times since January 2024, is a student at the University of Kansas Schools of Journalism and Film. He is a graduate of Pittsburg High School, where he was the multimedia editor for Pitt Media in 2019-21. He is currently the managing editor at the University Daily Kansan and development director at KJHK. See more of his work for the Times here.
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