Nutrition advocates say the nationwide ‘free meals for all’ program helped address food insecurity and childhood hunger for millions during the first two years of the pandemic. But that’s going away this school year. Now families who are above certain federal income thresholds will once again have to pay for their children’s lunches. And experts say that can be tricky in Moab, where these income thresholds don’t necessarily reflect the cost of living here. Plus, ancient human footprints were recently discovered in the Great Salt Lake Desert by two archaeologists on their way to an excavation site.

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// Photo: Margaret L Hopkin Middle School. As students return to school this week, nutrition advocates worry that the expiration of the ‘free meals for all’ program will leave some families falling through the cracks – making too much money to qualify for free and reduced lunch, but not enough to comfortably afford the meals.

// Grand County School District Meal info Sheet
https://www.grandschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1653097&type=d&pREC_ID=1798917

// Need Help Applying for Free/Reduced Lunch?
Call Alysha Packard at 435-259-2757

// UPR: Twelve-thousand-year-old footprints were discovered in the Great Salt Lake Desert
https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-08-16/twelve-thousand-year-old-footprints-were-discovered-in-the-great-salt-lake-desert