| BGSU cooks up way to help food service for Lake |
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| Written by By MARIE THOMAS Sentinel Education Editor | |||
| Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:12 | |||
Chartwells Higher Education Dining Services, which contracts for food service operations with both Bowling Green State University and Lake School District, is donating the contents of the now-defunct Commons Dining Center in Bowling Green to help feed students at Lake. The items were loaded this morning on campus and hauled to Millbury where equipment will be used for both middle school and high school food service. Chris Wilson, Lake dining director, said the district is receiving "quite a bit of serving equipment and tables." The donation includes a double convection oven, hot serving stations, meat slicers, food processors, trash cans, cash registers, serving utensils and tables and chairs for nearly 400 students. "We should in effect be able to outfit service for 900 up there," said Mike Paulus, director of university dining services. He estimated nearly $100,000 in equipment was being donated. "It is a loan to Lake Schools for as long as they need it." Wilson said the tables and chairs will go to the temporary high school building on the Owens Community College campus, and the equipment will be split between the high school and the new building near the middle school that will be used for student dining. She praised BGSU for "coming through phenomenally not only with equipment but getting volunteers together." Paulus called it being a good neighbor.
Paulus said "the timing was just perfect" when Wilson contacted him for assistance. Even with the donation, Wilson continues to look for equipment to help feed the 900-plus students in grades 6-12 since a June 5 tornado destroyed the cafeteria and kitchens shared by the high school and middle school. She said Thursday that she still needs food service-type pans and serving utensils, as well as a portable three-compartment sink and portable hand sink, both for the high school now located in Owens' Center for Development and Training building on Tracy Road. The temporary site does not have the appropriate plumbing, necessitating the portable units. Lake students are back to school Aug. 26, giving Wilson two weeks to finalize operations. She said she is working to find a site off campus where meals can be prepared, then transported to the two schools. BGSU also might be able to help out with that. "We've got a large facility here, we've got plenty of room" to prepare meals for transport to Lake, Paulus stated. While students won't have the number of lunch choices as in the past, Wilson said meals served will meet national lunch program requirements and be "healthy and tasty." Nagel Trucking donated the semi-trailer, and both university and Lake volunteers started at 8 this morning loading the equipment. Lake benefited from another loan of furnishings last week. Woodward High School, in Toledo, also is slated for demolition, and Lake employees last Thursday removed everything they could carry - including teacher desks, tables and filing cabinets - for use at the temporary high school site. Once a new Lake High School is completed, the furnishings will return to Toledo to be auctioned off. Demolition work also continues on the Lake campus along Lemoyne Road. Crews are removing debris and tearing down parts of the high school still standing. |
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| Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 12:56 |
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