Save Time, Save Money and Help Keep the Summer Lunch Program In Place...

The childrens Summer Meal Program is in full swing! Free for children under 18, adults do not need to accompany a child, however the cost is very affordable…tasty hot meal along with a fresh fruit and salad bar!

Agua Fria District

• Agua Fria High, 530 E. Riley Drive, Avondale
  Breakfast: 7 to 8 a.m.
  Lunch: 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
  Dates: Monday to Friday, June 8 to July 17 (closed July 3)
  Adult meals are $1.50 for breakfast and $2.50 for lunch.
  For information, call 623-932-7009 or e-mail lzoric@aguafria.org.

Avondale District

• Eliseo C. Felix, 540 La Pasada, Avondale
  Breakfast: 7 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
  Dates: Monday to Thursday, June 8 to July 23
  
• Michael Anderson, 45 S. Third Ave., Avondale
  Breakfast: 7 to 8 a.m.
  Lunch: 10 a.m. to noon
  Dates: Monday to Thursday, June 8-25
  For information, call 623-772-5025.

Buckeye District

• Buckeye Elementary, 210 S. Sixth St., Buckeye
  Lunch: 11 a.m. to noon
  Dates: Monday to Thursday, June 1-25
  Adults can eat for $2.
  For information, call 623-386-4487, Ext. 129.

Charter Schools

• Bradley Academy, 200 N. Dysart Road, Avondale
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 1 to July 26
  
• Estrella High School, 510 N. Central Ave., Avondale
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11 a.m. to noon
  Dates: Monday through Thursday, June 1-25

Liberty District

• Rainbow Valley Elementary, 19716 W. Narramore Road, Buckeye
  Dates: Monday to Thursday, June 1 to July 31
  
• Liberty Elementary, 22150 W. Sundance Parkway, Buckeye
  Dates: Monday to Thursday, June 1-25
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  For information, call 623-327-2975.

Litchfield District

• Barbara Robey Elementary, 5340 N. Wigwam Creek Blvd.
  
• Wigwam Creek Middle School, 4510 North 127th Ave.
  Breakfast: 8 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m.
  Dinner: 5 p.m.
  Dates: Monday to Friday, today until July 24
  For information and additional sites, call 623-535-6060.

Littleton District

• Quentin Elementary, 11050 W. Whyman Ave., Avondale
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 10:30 a.m. to noon
  Dates: Monday to Friday June 1-26
  Adults can eat for a minor cost.
  For information, call 623-478-5717.

Pendergast District

• Villa de Paz Elementary, 4940 N. 103rd Ave., Phoenix
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11 a.m. to noon
  Dates: Monday to Friday June 1 to July 24
  Sack meals will be served for breakfast and lunch during the same hours July 1-24 at the following sites:
  
• Canyon Breeze Elementary, 11675 W. Encanto Blvd., Avondale
  
• Copper King Elementary, 10730 W. Campbell Ave., Phoenix
  
• Garden Lakes Elementary, 10825 W. Garden Lakes Parkway, Avondale
  
• Rio Vista Elementary, 10237 W. Encanto Blvd., Avondale
  
• Sonoran Sky Elementary, 10150 W. Missouri Ave., Glendale
  Adults can eat breakfast for $1.50 and lunch for $2.50.
  For information, call 623-772-2270.

Saddle Mountain District

• Ruth Fisher Elementary, 38201 W. Indian School Road, Tonopah
  The school's library and gym will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Monday to Thursday June 1-25 for pupils in grades first through eighth.
  Free breakfast and lunch will be provided.
  Parking will be available in the Tonopah Valley High School lot, because Ruth Fisher's is being resurfaced.

Tolleson District

• Desert Oasis Elementary, 8802 W. McDowell Road, Phoenix
  Breakfast: 8 to 9 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 1 to July 17
  For information, call 623-936-9740, Ext. 2040

Avondale

• La Mission Jubilee Church, 11147 W. Buckeye Road
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 1 to July 24
  
• Neighborhood Housing Service, 19 N. Central Ave.
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 8 to July 24
  
• Norton Circle Housing Development, 304 S. Fifth Ave.
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 3 to July 26
  
• Rose Terrace Apartments, 525 E. Harrison Drive
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 1 to July 26
  
• Salvation Army, 11 N. Third Ave.
  Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
  Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Dates: June 8 to July 24
  
• Sam Garcia Western Ave Library, 495 E. Western Ave.
  Breakfast: 10 to 11 a.m.
  Lunch: 2 to 3 p.m.
  Dates: June 1 to July 17
  
• Word of Life Christian Center, 1425 N. Central Ave., Avondale
  Meals: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Friday through July 24.

Tolleson

• Tolleson Library, 9555 W. Van Buren St.
  Lunch: 12:15 p.m.
  Dates: Monday to Friday, June 1 to July 24
  Adults can eat for $2
  For information, call 623-936-2746
  
  
  Info from WestValleyView.com

Remember When...

... there were no X-Boxes, DVR’s, DVD’s, Ipods, E Bay, spam, viruses, cell phones, e mail, text messages, voice mail, association fees, upselling and VIP cards just so you can get the sale price? Remember when the best days were the days you spent swinging on the swings in the park just before sunset with your best friend?  Stop, ignore the e mail, voice mail, shut the phone off, ban video games, texting and ipods and just for one day in the month of May, rollerskate, bike, scooter, skip or stroll with a kid, any kid’ll do, and go straight the nearest park and see if you can touch the sky again. Is that not what……all those modern conveniences are supposed to give us:  more time for what’s really important? (It’s included in the price of your association fee.)

“The healthy wayfarer sitting beside the road scanning the horizon open before him, is he not the absolute master of the earth, the waters, and even the sky? What housedweller can vie with him in power and wealth? His estate has no limits, his empire no law. No work bends him toward the ground, for the bounty and beauty of the world are already his”. -Isabelle Eberhardt B. 1933

KEEPER
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress; lawn mower in his hand, and dish-towel in hers. It was the time for fixing things… a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep. 

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful… Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more. 

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more. Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away.....never to return. So... While we have it... Its best we love it... And care for it.... And fix it when it's broken..... And heal it when it's sick. 

This is true... For marriage.... And old cars.... And children with bad report cards...... Dogs and cats with bad hips.... And aging parents..... And grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends. W e keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.

 Some things we keep. Like a best friend who moved away or a classmate we grew up with. There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special.... And so, we keep them close in heart and mind and spirit. ~Author Unknown.  (This piece was received in an e mail that’s been going around the web.)