Fortuna High to Provide Take Home Breakfast and Lunch for All Students
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Fortuna High School at night. [Photo by Sandi Petersen]
To: Fortuna Union High School District Parents/Guardians:
At this time the Fortuna Union High School District has been placed on an emergency school closure. During this closure, the FUHSD Food Service Department will provide an opportunity for FUHSD Students to pick up meals. All students must be present in order for meals to be provided. All students will receive a lunch for that day and a breakfast for the following day.
Starting Tuesday March 17, 2020, meals will be available for pick up in the following locations & times:
Fortuna Area
- 10:00AM-12:00PM Fortuna High School Cafeteria
- 10:00AM-10:25AM Ambrosini Elementary School parking lot
- 10:30AM-10:55AM Toddy Thomas Middle School parking lot
- 11:00AM-11:25AM Palmer Boulevard (by the Water District at Valley Drive)
Loleta Area
- 10:00AM-10:25AM Table Bluff Reservation (@ Wiyot Drive)
- 10:30AM-10:55AM Loleta Elementary School parking lot
- 11:00AM-11:25AM Bear River Recreation Center parking lot
Scotia/Rio Dell
- 10:00AM-10:25AM Scotia Inn parking lot
- 10:30AM-10:55AM Rio Dell School parking lot
- 11:00AM-11:25AM Rio Dell Fire Hall parking lot
Hydesville/Carlotta/Bridgeville
- 10:00AM-10:25AM Hydesville Fire station parking lot
- 10:30AM-10:55AM Carlotta Fire station parking lot
- 11:00AM-11:25AM Swain’s Flat Outpost
- 11:40AM-12:00PM Bridgeville Elementary School parking lot
This program will be solely for the pick-up of meals and meals will not be consumed on site. At this time the health and well-being and safety of our students and community are the number one priority. We encourage families to continue to be proactive in reducing the risk of COVID-19 by continuing to wash your hands often, sneeze or cough into a tissue, and stay home if you are sick.
Sincerely,
Glen Senestraro
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Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose of closing the school? I know students need to eat… but how is this containing a possible spread? Maybe they should do a drop off service to students’ porches so there is no contact.
The idea is that people will drive up and be handed food bags and then leave to consume them elsewhere, hopefully at home. This allows no real contact or exposure to staff or other students. Delivering to each individual porch in the rural areas of Humboldt County is very impractical.
Hope this helps.
FUHS has provided literally no information about the closure to parents. I’m super glad the priority was figuring out meals, because that is really very important to many families, but no info about the actual closure itself. I found out about the closure on social media and have no idea if there is going to be anything required of students to do or anything Just no info. Poor form, in my opinion.
This came out yesterday and I linked to it in my school post:
The Fortuna Union High School District Board of Trustees held an Emergency Board Meeting on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM. in response to the growing concerns and for our community’s health and well-being, the Trustees approved the following actions for immediate implementation:
1. All District schools will be closed through March 27, 2020.
2. All school-related, school-sponsored activities have been suspended until March 27, 2020 as well. This includes, but not limited to extra-curricular activities, clubs, professional development, and sporting events.
3. The District will continue to evaluate academic delivery methods. We are planning to provide meals for our students during this closure. Please keep checking the website and Social Media for updates as to where and when.
The Fortuna Union High School District will continue to provide you with current information regarding this situation. We thank you for your understanding and patience during these uncertain times. Please rest assured, we have your student’s and our community’s well-being as a priority.
We will be re-evaluating weekly, continually planning and our community can expect updates from the District weekly.
If you have any questions, please contact your school office.
In this together,
Carla Diaz, Charles Ellebrecht, Anita Gage, Jeana McClendon and Seth McGrath
Fortuna Union High School District Board of Trustees
I’m glad I’m not the only one that is NOT happy with the way this has been handled. Absolutely no information. I found out was closed because the track coach contacted us to tell us no practice for the two weeks school is closed. Seriously? I’m glad they are offering this service but the way this is being handled is ridiculous! They were more informative letting us know that all school sports and events including prom was canceled. 🤷🏼♀️