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posted August 5, 2021

The Food Service Department would like to welcome everyone back to a new school year!  We would like to give you some important information about this school year.

The USDA has announced that all breakfast and lunch meals for this school year will be FREE to ALL students!  With that being said now is a great time to get your meal balances caught up and in the positive.  You can even deposit payments for next school year or for ala carte purchases!

Even though meals will be free this year it is still important to fill out free/reduced applications for the following reasons:

Free/Reduced Lunch Application

We have made some changes to our ala carte (extra) purchases this year. Ala carte items are items such as extra milk, water, chips, salads, wraps, etc that can be purchased by students in grades 5th - 12th that do not currently have a block on their account.

From now on ala carte items will only be allowed to be purchased if the family account has a positive balance.  If there is a block for these purchases students will only be allowed to purchase items with cash IF their family account is in the positive. Our hope is that with this change accounts will be more manageable for our families. If the account is in the negative your student will be informed that they can not make these purchases. Please be aware that we will NEVER refuse the menued meal to any student regardless of account balance.  

If you would like to place an ala carte block on your student’s account please contact Heather Smith at heather.smith@cardinalcomet.com or 641-652-7531 ext. 3257

We hope that this will be the Comet Cafe’s best year yet and look forward to seeing all of our students, staff, and families! 

My real endorsement of Cardinal Schools and its faculty and staff can be seen each morning when I hand them the one irreplaceable and most valuable thing in my life: my kids. No letter I write could be a greater endorsement than that simple act. I give them my kids, and I do it with a huge smile on my face because I trust them to do what they are most outstanding at: building our future.
Kevin S. Maggio · Cardinal Parent
Cardinal School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age (for employment), socioeconomic status (for programs), religion, disability, creed, national origin, marital status (for programs), sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity in its educational programs and employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or grievance related to this policy, please contact the district’s equity coordinator, Cindy Green.

The Cardinal Community School District offers career and technical  programs in the following service areas:
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Health Science
Human Services
Business, Finance, Marketing, and Management

Cindy Green - cindy.green@cardinalcomet.com
Middle School Principal/Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Equity Coordinator
4045 Ashland Rd.
Eldon, IA 52554
(641) 652-7531

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