Elementary schools honored in Healthier US School Challenge

    Brownville Elementary, Milo Elementary and Marion C. Cook School students joined the food service staff in celebrating the Healthier US School Challenge Bronze Level award. This award, which only 5 percent of schools across the nation have received, was presented to them by Stephanie Stambach MS.RD.LD, who is a representative of the Department of Education’s Child Nutrition Department.

 
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A HEALTHIER SCHOOL — Pictured at the Marion C. Cook School in LaGrange holding the Healthier US School Challenge Bronze Level award banner, presented to the three SAD 41 elementary schools, are, from left, Mira Whitmore, Food Service Director Susan Mulherin, Brownville and Marion C. Cook Principal Lynn Weston, cook Kelley Carroll, Stephanie Stambach, MS RD LD, cook/secretary Nancy Willinski and Dominic Jones.

    The Healthier US School Challenge (HUSSC) is a voluntary national certification initiative for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program. It supports First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign by recognizing schools that are creating healthier school environments through their promotion of good nutrition and physical activity. Sponsored by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), the initiative encourages all schools to take a leadership role in helping students to make healthier eating and physical activity choices that will last a lifetime. 
    The SAD 41 school teachers, health educators, and food service staff, have worked hard to make changes to their school nutrition environment in order to (1) improve the quality of the foods served, (2) provide students with nutrition education, and (3) provide students with physical education and opportunities for physical activity.