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PAGE 10A - THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 2009
6th Grade Students Of The Quarter
East Jackson Middle School recently named its
sixth grade students of the quarter. They include
(L-R, front row) Corrie Sanders, Allison Crow,
Anneka Cozzens and Baylie Cowart; (middle row)
Taylor Neal, Harley Guest, Anna Bruce and Brandy
Walker; and (back row) assistant principal Anna
Savage and principal Heidi Hill.
7th Grade Students Of The Quarter
East Jackson Middle School recently named its
seventh grade students of the quarter. They include
(L-R, front row) Trace Wilbanks, Ashley Grooms and
Kinsley Morris; (middle row) Ryan Robinett, Kirsty
Ballard, Tyeshia Gaither and Morgan Crawford;
(back row) Dayton Watkins, assistant principal
Anna Savage and principal Heidi Hill.
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More Students Get Free
Or Reduced Price Lunches
By Mark Beardsley
As an ailing economy
affects more families, the
number of Commerce
School System children
getting free and reduced
price meals has climbed.
“There’s been a notice
able increase," confirmed
Susan Harvin, the sys
tem’s food service direc
tor.
“Last year we were at
50 percent system-wide.
I think we’ll be a little
higher this year. The year
before that, it was 47.9
percent."
The school system has
always had a fairly high
rate of students taking
advantage of its lunch pro
gram, but the economy
has had an effect.
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This year, according
to Harvin, the primary
school has the highest
participation rate, 64 per
cent, and the numbers
decrease as the grade
level increases. Sixty-
two percent of elemen
tary school students, 56
percent of middle school
students and 48 percent
of high school students
get free or reduced price
meals.
In all, 850 Commerce
school children get free or
reduced priced lunches,
with 699 of those getting
free meals and 151 paying
a reduced rate.
Approximately 84
percent of Commerce
students participate in
the overall school lunch
Madison County Journal,
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program. According to
Harvin, about 87 per
cent participate at the
primary school, 90 per
cent at the elementary
school, 95 percent at the
middle school and 78
percent at Commerce
High School.
She attributes the lower
rate at CHS to students
who, rather than eating
in the cafeteria, “stay out
side and hang with their
friends."
All schools also offer
breakfast, but participa
tion is much lower — prob
ably 45 percent — than in
the lunch program, Harvin
says. The same free and
reduced price offerings
exist with the breakfast
program.
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Misty Parker
Wins B&T
Scholarship
The Baker & Taylor
Foundation awarded a
$3,000 scholarship to Misty
Marie Parker, a sophomore
at North Georgia College
and State University, and the
daughter of Baker & Taylor
customer service employee
Ponda Parker.
The award honors Jean
Smecz, senior vice presi
dent of merchandising for
Baker & Taylor, who died
Feb. 12 when Continental
Flight 3407 crashed outside
of Buffalo, NY.
In her honor, the compa
ny’s foundation established
a college scholarship in
Smecz’s name to annually
support the education of a
child of a Baker & Taylor
employee.
Miss Parker is a graduate
of Madison County High
School.
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