Posts tagged with school lunches

Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:40 p.m.

The blacktop at Grant Beacon Middle School on South Pearl Street, Platt Park. Jan. 30, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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1.4 million more free lunches would be served to Colorado kids under proposed legislation

The bill making its way through the Colorado state legislature has the potential to give free meals to about 18,000 Denver Public Schools students from low-income families who were not receiving them before.

A screenshot from Denver Public Schools' first #DPSDelicious video.

What’s in a school lunch? A Denver district wants parents to see for themselves.

“We’re using the same ingredients you’re using when you cook a scratch meal for your family.”

No more cheese sandwiches: Denver restores hot lunches for students in debt

Denver students will start the year off with lunch debts paid off and a new promise that falling behind on lunch payments will not mean a cold “alternative” meal.

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Backyard on Blake, RiNo. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Artist studios at Bindery on Blake will move to Backyard on Blake

The 14 new studio spaces will be leased for $600 a month.

Wares on shelves inside the River North Workshop Company at Backyard on Blake, RiNo. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Backyard on Blake sets grand opening in RiNo for Saturday

"The goal was to really create something that people who live up and down Blake Street and in the surrounding community could feel like was theirs to use," Arnold said.