Spokane Public Schools provide meals during spring break

For the first time that anyone can remember, Spokane Public Schools is providing food during spring break, and other districts are doing the same.

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UPDATED: Mon., April 6, 2020

Grant Elementary School first grader T.J. Kloepfel flashes a smile to Spokane Public School nutrition service worker Debbie Richardson as the child picks up breakfast and lunch at the school as during the first day of spring break, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Spokane, Wash.

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Eric Hawker and his daughters, from left, Evelyn, 5, Olivia, 7, and Kaitlyn, 15, take a sneak peek into the breakfast and lunch bags they picked up at Grant Elementary School on the first day of spring break, Monday, in Spokane.

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Grant Elementary School first grader T. J. Kloepfel digs into his breakfast and lunch bag he received at the school on the first day of spring break, Monday, April 6, 2002, in Spokane.

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Grant Elementary School Principal Assistant Pamela Lindsley carts a load of breakfast and lunch bags to deliver by car to students’ apartments on at the school on the first day of spring break, Monday, April 6, 2002, in Spokane.

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Delaney Nelson and her little brother Tripp, proceed across the blue waiting line as they get breakfast and lunch bags at Grant Elementary School on the first day of spring break, Monday, April 6, 2002, in Spokane.

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Bags filled with breakfast and lunch items await students at Grant Elementary School on the first day of spring break, Monday, April 6, 2002, in Spokane.

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