By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel
Waukesha - For the first time, the Salvation Army will provide free sack lunches to public school students from financially strapped families during the Waukesha public schools spring break April 5 to 9.
The distribution will be at noon at Sentinel Park, near West Ave. and Madera St. on the city's south side. Students and other children in their families need to be present to get the lunches.
The agency has operated its Feed The Kids program summers for the past six years and will do so again this summer. Major Carol Lemirand of Salvation Army said the agency usually provides 100 to 150 lunches a day to children during the summer months.
The agency is seeking donations of peanut butter, jelly, cookies, granola bars, chips and juice boxes as well as monetary donations to buy perishable food for the service. Contact Salvation Army at (262) 547-7367 to offer help.
About Laurel Walker
Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus.
She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon.
She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.
