More About Food

Last night, at the Housing and Transportation Committee meeting, Alderman Tiffany Garriga (Second Ward) spoke about "low-income tenants who now have to feed their kids." Typically, students in the Hudson City School District get free breakfast and lunch at school from Monday through Friday, and many students who live in Hudson get a free daily supper at the Youth Center. The implication was that, now that the schools are closed and the Youth Center is closed, parents need to provide three meals a day for their children.

When the schools closed on March 18, HCSD announced on its Facebook page that it continue the school breakfast and lunch program.

Garriga's comment made it seem that the program had stopped. It hasn't. Meals are provided in "grab-and-go style" at four locations in Hudson--Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School, Hudson Junior High School, the former John L. Edwards School building, and the Chamber of Commerce parking lot--from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch and the next day's breakfast are distributed Monday through Friday.

To compensate for missed suppers at the Youth Center, the Youth Department, with funding from Friends of Hudson Youth, is distributing free groceries to anyone in Hudson who requests them. Groceries are delivered every Tuesday and Friday to pickup sites at Bliss Towers, Schuyler Court, Providence Hall, and Hudson Terrace.  

There's a lot of effort going on in Hudson to make people food secure.
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