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Lunch prices in the Kent School District will be going up next school year. The school board approved a 10-cent increase at its May 13 meeting.
The cost of an elementary lunch will go from $2.40 to $2.50 and a secondary lunch will go from $2.90 to $3.
The increases are in line with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines on paid lunch prices.
District officials anticipate the 10-cent increase should be large enough to keep the prices the same through the 2016-2017 school year, although the prices will be reviewed next spring.
The board also approved an increase in the price of breakfast at secondary schools and meals for adults, to cover increased food and labor costs. The prices were last reviewed in 2011. Paid breakfast at middle and high schools will increase by 25 cents to $1.75 per meal. Adult breakfasts will go up by a nickel to $2..25 per meal, and adult lunch will increase by a quarter to $3.75 per meal.
Elsewhere
The following Kent-area students made the Seattle Pacific University winter quarter dean’s list: Kelly Catherine Becker; Ashley Nicole Blair; Rachel Mary Douglass; Dalton Geil; Sarah Elisabeth Grace; Ashlyn N. Hicks; Rachel Leah Howard; Abigail Vivian Jensen; Daniel Eldon McConnell; Makayla Lynn O’Brien; Bethany Teresa Peter; Alison Ruth Shipley; Vladislav P. Vlasenko; and Monica Louise Worthington. …
Kent’s Kendall White (B.A., business administration) and John J. Perko (B.S., mechanical engineering) were awarded academic degrees at Saint Martin’s University’s commencement ceremony May 9. …
Britta Walen, a English major from Kent, earned dean’s list recognition at George Fox University, achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher during the spring semester. Walen is academically considered a junior based on the number of credits earned. All told, more than 800 students earned dean’s list honors for the semester.
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