Breakfast and nutrition programs at 27 area schools, including some in Sturgeon Falls, are getting a financial boost from the Rotary Club of North Bay.
A total of $32,000 is going to the four local school boards and Nbisiing Secondary School.
Don Coutts, Family of Rotary Committee co-chair, says the recipients were elated with the funding they’re receiving.
He says school boards not having enough funding for breakfast programs has been making headlines across the country, showing there’s a need for this kind of support.
“They’ve been seeing that kids are coming not properly fed from home for whatever reason and have been talking about the need to increase provincial or federal funding to the various schools and school boards,” Coutts says.
He says the money was raised in their Catch The Ace progressive raffle, with the last draw reaching a record amount before it was won.
“Since the person won the money in early March, we were able to say this is where a good part of the revenue that the Rotary Club gets out of the Catch the Ace draw is going to, so it worked out well,” Coutts says.
A new Catch The Ace draw started this week.