{"id":10404,"date":"2022-03-25T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:31:23","slug":"acps-awarded-grant-for-student-nutrition-services-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/acps-awarded-grant-for-student-nutrition-services-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"ACPS Awarded Grant for Student Nutrition Services Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Share Our Strength\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/\">No Kid Hungry<\/a> campaign awarded a grant of $120,000 to Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) to support the division\u2019s critical work to end childhood hunger. The funds will be used for a much-needed new Office of School Nutrition Services (SNS) refrigerated delivery vehicle with a lift. Delivery of the new truck is expected this summer.<\/p>\n<p>SNS Executive Chef Jason Tepper expressed his gratitude for the funding, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re extremely grateful for this gift from Share Our Strength. Our new truck will enable us to meet and serve the needs of our children and community better and more efficiently.\u201d Director of SNS Cynthia Hormel echoed that sentiment. \u201cWe are very fortunate! Share Our Strength continues to support our program on so many levels,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Tepper explained that the school division currently has two older trucks that are showing their age, even as the ACPS transportation department services team maintains them regularly. These vehicles are used to transport products, ingredients, to-go boxes, trays and utensils, among other items needed to produce and serve students in ACPS\u2019s 18 schools, recreation centers and afterschool and summer programs. \u201cImagine an Amazon fulfillment center \u2014 it&#8217;s that exciting and demanding,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Share Our Strength\u2019s No Kid Hungry campaign awarded a grant of $120,000 to Alexandria City Public Schools to support the division\u2019s critical work to end childhood hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 03:36:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}