Bowling Green Independent School District summer meal program kicks off

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – For some local children and teens, school meals can be the only meals they have that day.

However, the Bowling Green Independent School District addresses this concern with its summer meals program.

The program kicked off for the season Monday outside of Lisa Rice Library, where a purple school bus sat ready to provide meals this summer break.

The free meals are available to those 18 and younger, regardless of their school system, and the initiative aims to impact students in more ways than one.

BGISD child nutrition coordinator Miranda Pierce says, “We try to also have an enrichment activity, so we’ve partnered up with the local library to have those reading activities as well. We also have books we help provide to the children. We have games that we’ll have.”

The initiative lasts through Aug. 2 and will be closed July 4 and 5. To see the full list of locations and meal schedules, click here.