From Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov Thu Apr 2 15:00:25 2009 From: Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov (Lombardi, Gail) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:00:25 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FW: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3AC@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Cheryl has contacted the media to do a story. This is a great way to get positive attention for your school and the food service program. Hope more of you will follow in her steps. Also, any updates you can give me about some of the nutrition education your school has done and the effects of the program on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables would be great. By the way, has anyone tried kohlrabi? What other vegetables have you tried in your schools that are difficult to find in a grocery store? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: Cheryl Hasenfus [mailto:Cheryl_Hasenfus at maranacook.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:55 PM To: Mstone at centralmaine.com; jphelan at centralmaine.com Cc: Jeff Bridges; Sonia Godbout; Lombardi, Gail; Rich Abramson Subject: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Hi Matt! I'd like to invite you to write an article about the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program sponsored by the USDA via the State under Gail Lombardi's supervision. Maranacook Middle School, Mt. Vernon Elementary and Manchester Elementary received grants last year during the first year it was available to Maine schools. Grant applications just came out for next year with a few changes in the eligibility criteria. The program has greatly affected students' attitudes towards eating many fresh fruits and veggies!! They have also been introduced to fresh fruits and veggies that they have never tried, or heard of previously. Jeff Bridges, Maranacook Food Services Director, handles most of the logistics of ordering, food prep and accounting, but teachers take responsibility for the nutrition education component and serving at the elementary level....it is a fabulous program!!....Please don't hesitate to contact me anytime...cheryl Cheryl Hasenfus, Principal Mt. Vernon & Wayne Elementary Schools 293-2261 & 685-3634 This electronic message transmission contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone (207-293-2261) or by electronic mail (cheryl_hasenfus at maranacook.org) immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090402/04338ecf/attachment.html From Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov Fri Apr 3 12:44:09 2009 From: Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov (Lombardi, Gail) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:44:09 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FFVP Grants 2010 school year Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3D0@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> An email from Amy Webb went out to the food service director/kitchen manager of schools with 50% or more free and reduced students on March 26 covering current selection process and stating that schools needed to request an application by April 19th. Also on April 3rd, I sent an email to superintendents of those districts and a notice to school health coordinators. To date, I have received requests from 105 schools. The application is not online, it must be requested. If you have any questions, please contact me. Gail Lombardi MS, RD Child Nutrition Services Maine Department of Education 111 Sewall Street, 5th floor 23 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333-0023 207-624-6876 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/cdc97541/attachment.html From bnichols at augustaschools.org Fri Apr 3 14:21:51 2009 From: bnichols at augustaschools.org (Barbara Nichols) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:21:51 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 Message-ID: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Good afternoon, Here in Augusta the FFVP has been awesome! In my 25+ years as a Food Service Director I have never experienced such a successful approach to getting kids to eat more Fruits & Veggies ! The teachers are very supportive as well. I would love to share our successes with Matt should he wish to do a report, or anyone interested in applying for a program next year. I tried to get local kohlrabi but was unsuccessful in finding any. It was too late in the season when I tried. Hopefully next fall we will get to try it. Barbara Barbara A. Nichols, Director Augusta School Nutrition Programs 12 Gedney Street Augusta, Maine 04330 Phone (207)626-2468 ext 4207 Fax (207)626-2444 Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:00:25 -0400 From: "Lombardi, Gail" Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FW: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program To: Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3AC at SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state. me.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cheryl has contacted the media to do a story. This is a great way to get positive attention for your school and the food service program. Hope more of you will follow in her steps. Also, any updates you can give me about some of the nutrition education your school has done and the effects of the program on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables would be great. By the way, has anyone tried kohlrabi? What other vegetables have you tried in your schools that are difficult to find in a grocery store? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: Cheryl Hasenfus [mailto:Cheryl_Hasenfus at maranacook.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:55 PM To: Mstone at centralmaine.com; jphelan at centralmaine.com Cc: Jeff Bridges; Sonia Godbout; Lombardi, Gail; Rich Abramson Subject: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Hi Matt! I'd like to invite you to write an article about the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program sponsored by the USDA via the State under Gail Lombardi's supervision. Maranacook Middle School, Mt. Vernon Elementary and Manchester Elementary received grants last year during the first year it was available to Maine schools. Grant applications just came out for next year with a few changes in the eligibility criteria. The program has greatly affected students' attitudes towards eating many fresh fruits and veggies!! They have also been introduced to fresh fruits and veggies that they have never tried, or heard of previously. Jeff Bridges, Maranacook Food Services Director, handles most of the logistics of ordering, food prep and accounting, but teachers take responsibility for the nutrition education component and serving at the elementary level....it is a fabulous program!!....Please don't hesitate to contact me anytime...cheryl Cheryl Hasenfus, Principal Mt. Vernon & Wayne Elementary Schools 293-2261 & 685-3634 This electronic message transmission contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone (207-293-2261) or by electronic mail (cheryl_hasenfus at maranacook.org) immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/atta chments/20090402/04338ecf/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetabl es End of DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 ************************************************************ From bnichols at augustaschools.org Fri Apr 3 14:21:51 2009 From: bnichols at augustaschools.org (Barbara Nichols) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:21:51 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 Message-ID: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Good afternoon, Here in Augusta the FFVP has been awesome! In my 25+ years as a Food Service Director I have never experienced such a successful approach to getting kids to eat more Fruits & Veggies ! The teachers are very supportive as well. I would love to share our successes with Matt should he wish to do a report, or anyone interested in applying for a program next year. I tried to get local kohlrabi but was unsuccessful in finding any. It was too late in the season when I tried. Hopefully next fall we will get to try it. Barbara Barbara A. Nichols, Director Augusta School Nutrition Programs 12 Gedney Street Augusta, Maine 04330 Phone (207)626-2468 ext 4207 Fax (207)626-2444 Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:00:25 -0400 From: "Lombardi, Gail" Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FW: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program To: Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3AC at SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state. me.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cheryl has contacted the media to do a story. This is a great way to get positive attention for your school and the food service program. Hope more of you will follow in her steps. Also, any updates you can give me about some of the nutrition education your school has done and the effects of the program on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables would be great. By the way, has anyone tried kohlrabi? What other vegetables have you tried in your schools that are difficult to find in a grocery store? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: Cheryl Hasenfus [mailto:Cheryl_Hasenfus at maranacook.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:55 PM To: Mstone at centralmaine.com; jphelan at centralmaine.com Cc: Jeff Bridges; Sonia Godbout; Lombardi, Gail; Rich Abramson Subject: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Hi Matt! I'd like to invite you to write an article about the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program sponsored by the USDA via the State under Gail Lombardi's supervision. Maranacook Middle School, Mt. Vernon Elementary and Manchester Elementary received grants last year during the first year it was available to Maine schools. Grant applications just came out for next year with a few changes in the eligibility criteria. The program has greatly affected students' attitudes towards eating many fresh fruits and veggies!! They have also been introduced to fresh fruits and veggies that they have never tried, or heard of previously. Jeff Bridges, Maranacook Food Services Director, handles most of the logistics of ordering, food prep and accounting, but teachers take responsibility for the nutrition education component and serving at the elementary level....it is a fabulous program!!....Please don't hesitate to contact me anytime...cheryl Cheryl Hasenfus, Principal Mt. Vernon & Wayne Elementary Schools 293-2261 & 685-3634 This electronic message transmission contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone (207-293-2261) or by electronic mail (cheryl_hasenfus at maranacook.org) immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/atta chments/20090402/04338ecf/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetabl es End of DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 ************************************************************ From cgreenier at sad22.us Fri Apr 3 14:42:11 2009 From: cgreenier at sad22.us (Chris Greenier) Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:42:11 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] =?iso-8859-1?q?DOE-Fresh-Fruit-a?= =?iso-8859-1?q?nd-Vegetables_=09Digest=2C__Vo?= In-Reply-To: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/294408ab/attachment-0001.html From Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov Fri Apr 3 14:48:53 2009 From: Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov (Lombardi, Gail) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:48:53 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo In-Reply-To: References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3E3@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Chris and others We need people like you to tell the federal legislators about how this program worked for you and your frustrations. Ask them to put more money into this great program. I doubt anyone did any baseline to say our students eat x amount more of fruits and vegetables BUT if you did please share this data with me. Each year we will be receiving more funding and hope to be able to dip into the lower than 50% a little this year and even more next year. In 2009, we had enough money to fund 50 schools. In 2010 we will be able to fund at least 100 schools. This would be a good time to provide feedback on the amount of money. We gave each school about $61 per enrolled student in 2009. We could fund more schools if we reduce that a bit. Was the amount provided enough, too much, too little? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org [mailto:doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org] On Behalf Of Chris Greenier Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:42 PM To: Barbara Nichols Cc: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/6c6d4f09/attachment.html From Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov Fri Apr 3 14:48:53 2009 From: Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov (Lombardi, Gail) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:48:53 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo In-Reply-To: References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3E3@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Chris and others We need people like you to tell the federal legislators about how this program worked for you and your frustrations. Ask them to put more money into this great program. I doubt anyone did any baseline to say our students eat x amount more of fruits and vegetables BUT if you did please share this data with me. Each year we will be receiving more funding and hope to be able to dip into the lower than 50% a little this year and even more next year. In 2009, we had enough money to fund 50 schools. In 2010 we will be able to fund at least 100 schools. This would be a good time to provide feedback on the amount of money. We gave each school about $61 per enrolled student in 2009. We could fund more schools if we reduce that a bit. Was the amount provided enough, too much, too little? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org [mailto:doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org] On Behalf Of Chris Greenier Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:42 PM To: Barbara Nichols Cc: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/6c6d4f09/attachment-0003.html From mpoliquin.staff at msln.net Fri Apr 3 15:02:00 2009 From: mpoliquin.staff at msln.net (Martha Poliquin) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:02:00 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: <426E192FB7274E148B94AB6C1DCD8E85@Kitchen> Ditto to Barbara Nichols and Chris Greenier. Durham was very fortunate to get one of the grants, too. Our F&R is 25%. I applied because I believed the children in this community would benefit as much as all the other children in Maine. Everyone is asking me what we will do next year. It has definitely changed the eating and snacking culture for our students, even in a relatively short period of time. They are more conditioned now to eating fresh fruits and vegetables while studying, reading, having a morning snack. And I see more fruits and vegetables being eaten at lunch, too. I think it is great that there is more money for the whole state. I hope we get a shot at applying again. Martha Poliquin Durham Foodservice Director 654 Hallowell Rd. Durham, ME 04222 207-353-9333, ext.206 mpoliquin.staff at msln.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Greenier To: Barbara Nichols Cc: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org ; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/bc3df21a/attachment.html From cgreenier at sad22.us Fri Apr 3 14:42:11 2009 From: cgreenier at sad22.us (Chris Greenier) Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:42:11 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] =?iso-8859-1?q?DOE-Fresh-Fruit-a?= =?iso-8859-1?q?nd-Vegetables_=09Digest=2C__Vo?= In-Reply-To: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/294408ab/attachment-0002.html From mpoliquin.staff at msln.net Fri Apr 3 15:02:00 2009 From: mpoliquin.staff at msln.net (Martha Poliquin) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:02:00 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo References: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: <426E192FB7274E148B94AB6C1DCD8E85@Kitchen> Ditto to Barbara Nichols and Chris Greenier. Durham was very fortunate to get one of the grants, too. Our F&R is 25%. I applied because I believed the children in this community would benefit as much as all the other children in Maine. Everyone is asking me what we will do next year. It has definitely changed the eating and snacking culture for our students, even in a relatively short period of time. They are more conditioned now to eating fresh fruits and vegetables while studying, reading, having a morning snack. And I see more fruits and vegetables being eaten at lunch, too. I think it is great that there is more money for the whole state. I hope we get a shot at applying again. Martha Poliquin Durham Foodservice Director 654 Hallowell Rd. Durham, ME 04222 207-353-9333, ext.206 mpoliquin.staff at msln.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Greenier To: Barbara Nichols Cc: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org ; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vo I agree with Barbara. It has been an incredible program for everyone involved. Teachers can't say enough about the benefits of the program and the kids' amazing acceptance of new and different fruits and vegetables - foods they would never have tried. Our K-5 school in Winterport was fortunate to get funded last year. It is very discouraging to me, and this happens ALL the itme with funding, that preference is given to schools with high percentages of free and reduced. I go online to the public state forms/reports very often and see the comparitively huge reimbursements for schools with high #'s of F/R and those of us who do not have those numbers struggle to get by. We don't get any more local funding than anyone else, often less, and our reimbursements are far less. We would benefit from this program every bit as much, maybe even more?? Smith School in Winterport was lucky enough to sneak by last year with the additional funding for FFVP . We currently have 46% F/R (which is way higher than all my other schools) and I'm told that there is little chance that we will get funding this year. This program will be sorely missed. Christine Greenier, Director MSAD 22 School Nutrition Program Reeds Brook Middle School 28A Main Road North Hampden, ME 04444 Telephone: 207/862-3543 Fax: 207/862-3551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/attachments/20090403/bc3df21a/attachment-0003.html From Mary.Cuskelly at bucksportschools.com Mon Apr 6 08:34:43 2009 From: Mary.Cuskelly at bucksportschools.com (Mary Cuskelly) Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:34:43 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-VegetablesDigest, Vol 4, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <91586019E788A6409F00AA0744F71C2D2111BF@humbert.augustaschools.org> Message-ID: Here in Bucksport things are going very well for the FFVP. Students at the Miles Lane School receive fruits and veggies everyday. Also, once a week each class receives a snack made especially for them. In January we kicked off 5-2-1-0 and it has been a complete success. The kids know me as the "Veggie Lady" and I attend every assembly, with messages about nutrition. Teachers, Students and Parents can't say enough about the success of the program. Kids are making better choices with snacks and can't get enough. Salad is their favorite. I use chopped romaine and add at least 3 other veggies. Another good one is chopped cucumbers, cherry tomatoes (halved) basil, salt and pepper, and just a drizzle of olive oil. That is successful also. I am anxious to find out about next year! Mary Cuskelly -----Original Message----- From: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org [mailto:doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Nichols Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:22 PM To: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-VegetablesDigest, Vol 4, Issue 1 Good afternoon, Here in Augusta the FFVP has been awesome! In my 25+ years as a Food Service Director I have never experienced such a successful approach to getting kids to eat more Fruits & Veggies ! The teachers are very supportive as well. I would love to share our successes with Matt should he wish to do a report, or anyone interested in applying for a program next year. I tried to get local kohlrabi but was unsuccessful in finding any. It was too late in the season when I tried. Hopefully next fall we will get to try it. Barbara Barbara A. Nichols, Director Augusta School Nutrition Programs 12 Gedney Street Augusta, Maine 04330 Phone (207)626-2468 ext 4207 Fax (207)626-2444 Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:00:25 -0400 From: "Lombardi, Gail" Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FW: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program To: Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3AC at SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state. me.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cheryl has contacted the media to do a story. This is a great way to get positive attention for your school and the food service program. Hope more of you will follow in her steps. Also, any updates you can give me about some of the nutrition education your school has done and the effects of the program on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables would be great. By the way, has anyone tried kohlrabi? What other vegetables have you tried in your schools that are difficult to find in a grocery store? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: Cheryl Hasenfus [mailto:Cheryl_Hasenfus at maranacook.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:55 PM To: Mstone at centralmaine.com; jphelan at centralmaine.com Cc: Jeff Bridges; Sonia Godbout; Lombardi, Gail; Rich Abramson Subject: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Hi Matt! I'd like to invite you to write an article about the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program sponsored by the USDA via the State under Gail Lombardi's supervision. Maranacook Middle School, Mt. Vernon Elementary and Manchester Elementary received grants last year during the first year it was available to Maine schools. Grant applications just came out for next year with a few changes in the eligibility criteria. The program has greatly affected students' attitudes towards eating many fresh fruits and veggies!! They have also been introduced to fresh fruits and veggies that they have never tried, or heard of previously. Jeff Bridges, Maranacook Food Services Director, handles most of the logistics of ordering, food prep and accounting, but teachers take responsibility for the nutrition education component and serving at the elementary level....it is a fabulous program!!....Please don't hesitate to contact me anytime...cheryl Cheryl Hasenfus, Principal Mt. Vernon & Wayne Elementary Schools 293-2261 & 685-3634 This electronic message transmission contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone (207-293-2261) or by electronic mail (cheryl_hasenfus at maranacook.org) immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Students at the Miles Lane School receive fruits and veggies everyday. Also, once a week each class receives a snack made especially for them. In January we kicked off 5-2-1-0 and it has been a complete success. The kids know me as the "Veggie Lady" and I attend every assembly, with messages about nutrition. Teachers, Students and Parents can't say enough about the success of the program. Kids are making better choices with snacks and can't get enough. Salad is their favorite. I use chopped romaine and add at least 3 other veggies. Another good one is chopped cucumbers, cherry tomatoes (halved) basil, salt and pepper, and just a drizzle of olive oil. That is successful also. I am anxious to find out about next year! Mary Cuskelly -----Original Message----- From: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org [mailto:doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables-bounces at informe.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Nichols Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:22 PM To: doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at informe.org; doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables at lists.maine.gov Subject: Re: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-VegetablesDigest, Vol 4, Issue 1 Good afternoon, Here in Augusta the FFVP has been awesome! In my 25+ years as a Food Service Director I have never experienced such a successful approach to getting kids to eat more Fruits & Veggies ! The teachers are very supportive as well. I would love to share our successes with Matt should he wish to do a report, or anyone interested in applying for a program next year. I tried to get local kohlrabi but was unsuccessful in finding any. It was too late in the season when I tried. Hopefully next fall we will get to try it. Barbara Barbara A. Nichols, Director Augusta School Nutrition Programs 12 Gedney Street Augusta, Maine 04330 Phone (207)626-2468 ext 4207 Fax (207)626-2444 Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:00:25 -0400 From: "Lombardi, Gail" Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FW: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program To: Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE3AC at SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state. me.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cheryl has contacted the media to do a story. This is a great way to get positive attention for your school and the food service program. Hope more of you will follow in her steps. Also, any updates you can give me about some of the nutrition education your school has done and the effects of the program on the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables would be great. By the way, has anyone tried kohlrabi? What other vegetables have you tried in your schools that are difficult to find in a grocery store? Gail Lombardi 207-624-6876 ________________________________ From: Cheryl Hasenfus [mailto:Cheryl_Hasenfus at maranacook.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:55 PM To: Mstone at centralmaine.com; jphelan at centralmaine.com Cc: Jeff Bridges; Sonia Godbout; Lombardi, Gail; Rich Abramson Subject: Fresh Fruit and Veggie Program Hi Matt! I'd like to invite you to write an article about the Fresh Fruit and Veggie program sponsored by the USDA via the State under Gail Lombardi's supervision. Maranacook Middle School, Mt. Vernon Elementary and Manchester Elementary received grants last year during the first year it was available to Maine schools. Grant applications just came out for next year with a few changes in the eligibility criteria. The program has greatly affected students' attitudes towards eating many fresh fruits and veggies!! They have also been introduced to fresh fruits and veggies that they have never tried, or heard of previously. Jeff Bridges, Maranacook Food Services Director, handles most of the logistics of ordering, food prep and accounting, but teachers take responsibility for the nutrition education component and serving at the elementary level....it is a fabulous program!!....Please don't hesitate to contact me anytime...cheryl Cheryl Hasenfus, Principal Mt. Vernon & Wayne Elementary Schools 293-2261 & 685-3634 This electronic message transmission contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify me by telephone (207-293-2261) or by electronic mail (cheryl_hasenfus at maranacook.org) immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.informe.org/pipermail/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables/atta chments/20090402/04338ecf/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetabl es End of DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1 ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables mailing list DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables at lists.maine.gov http://mailman.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/doe-fresh-fruit-and-vegetabl es From Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov Tue Apr 14 08:29:32 2009 From: Gail.Lombardi at maine.gov (Lombardi, Gail) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:29:32 -0400 Subject: [DOE-Fresh-Fruit-and-Vegetables] FFVP Application Update Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B064FE454@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us> Update on the Initial Round of FFVP applications 139 schools that meet the initial application criteria have requested applications for the FFVP grants. Unless a significant number of schools do not complete the applications on time, there will not be any funds left for the schools that are less than 50% or more free and reduced. The next date that we may know whether there are any funds left to provide to other schools will be May 4th. Schools that are working on completing applications must download the USDA FFVP Guidance Handbook that is on our FFVP web pages to assure meeting federal requirements of the program. Schools should also review the Q and A's towards the bottom of the web page. Remember that the applications are to help you plan how you will implement the FFVP at your school. Gail Lombardi MS, RD Child Nutrition Services Maine Department of Education 111 Sewall Street, 5th floor 23 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333-0023 207-624-6876 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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