The Lincoln County School District has delayed the start of its fall online classes for a week until Monday, Sept. 21 because of the forest fires burning in Otis and Rose Lodge.
But the district will start delivering meals by buses to all areas of the district on Monday. There will also be curbside pickup available at Crestview Heights Elementary School in Waldport, and at Taft High School, Newport Middle School and Toledo Elementary.
School in Lincoln County is online for at least through November. LCSD students and their parents were scheduled to meet alone or in small groups for “check and connect sessions” with their new teachers over a two-week period beginning Monday. Then, on Sept. 28, the district’s more comprehensive distance learning effort will officially kick off, with students expected to participate in online learning five days a week.
The district had closed all its facilities last Thursday and Friday after the fires broke out Wednesday.
Families in Lincoln County with children aged 0-18 are eligible to receive daily free breakfasts and lunches for each child delivered or picked up once a day.
The countywide service is being provided under new, short term waivers issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with Sodexo Food Service and First Student Bus Co.
New meal delivery routes and schedules are on the published on the district website.
The service is a resumption of meal delivery the district provided when schools were forced to close in March. It provided 478,339 meals from March to early June and another 67,663 meals from June 8 to Aug. 31.
