GALION—The Galion board of education met on Tuesday evening for their monthly meeting.
At the meeting, the board was informed by treasurer Charlene Parkinson that the National School Lunch Program that all Galion students will be eligible for free lunches September 4 until the money runs out, which is expected to be around December 31.
“This is great because every single one of the students will get free breakfast and a free lunch,” Parkinson said.
The board accepted quite a few donations from the community, including $4,000 from the Galion Elementary PTO, over 50 gallons of hand sanitizer from the Iron Vault Distillery, 240 meals from Galion’s KFC for all staff members, an anonymous $1,000 donation to be put towards new uniforms for the girls soccer team, and a $10,000 donation from the Galion Community Education Foundation for the continued growth of the school’s robotics program.
The school was awarded the Comprehensive Literacy grant for $400,000, the 21st Century grant for $2,000,000 over five years, and the Connectivity grant for $20,000.
Mrs. Jennifer Allerding, Galion’s superintendent, informed the board that the new school year is going well despite all of the changes that had to be put in place.
“I’m pretty happy with the way that we started the year. I think that our kids have been doing an outstanding job with all of the different things that we are asking of them—from the masks, to the sanitation, to everything else in between because everything looks different,” Allerding said.