‘School’ meals
Putnam --- Serving 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches (for Saturday and Sunday meals given out on Friday) and 5 supper meals and 5 snacks per child per week.
For locations and updates please go to: https://www.putnam.k12.ct.us/district/news/updated-breakfast-lunch-feeding-sites
Woodstock --- Bagged lunches and breakfasts will be provided from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the middle school for ALL school-aged children in town. Mondays and Wednesdays we are doing double so the families do not have to go out as often. On Fridays one breakfast and one lunch will be provided. For updates go to the Woodstock Proud FB page
Pomfret --- Parents may pick up Grab and Go meals for all school-age children from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the cafeteria door. Please stay in your car, staff will bring the meals to you. For updates go to: https://www.pomfretcommunityschool.org
Eastford --- Go to www.eastfordct.org for updates.
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Health --- Northeast District Department of Health — www.nddh.org/services/emergency-preparedness/coronavirus-disease-2019- covid-19/; Connecticut Department of Health — https://portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019- ncov/index.html.
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Sanity in the midst of the
great unknown --- food safety
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
Feeling more like you’re in a science fiction movie than real life?
The great unknown — Is 6 feet really enough? What can I touch and when? What about the mail? What about packages? What about food? Takeout?
Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen, a physician from Michigan, posted answers to the grocery food question on YouTube. It’s a thorough, logical approach to making sure what you bring home from the grocery is safe. He employs the “sterile technique”
He said the Coronavirus can live for 3 hours in the air; 1 hour on cardboard and three days on plastic and metal.
He recommends that you leave the groceries in the garage or on a porch for three days.
If you must bring it in he recommends disinfecting a space (he had a metal table) with a “standard disinfectant” spray, then dividing it in two. One side will be the “clean” side, receiving cleaned groceries, and the other side he called the “dirty” side.
When he opened a prescription bag, he wiped down the bottle with paper towels soaked with disinfectant and placed it on the clean side. For a cereal box, he opened the box and put the bag on the clean side. For bread, he opened the bag and emptied the bread into a bowl. He wiped down the bag holding broccoli. For the glass jars and “hardy plastic” containers, he sprayed them with disinfectant and wiped clean. For fruit, he emptied the bags into water in the sink and let them soak.
For takeout, he said that Coronavirus does not do well with food, but the wrappers are a concern. He’s shown in the YouTube video opening a hamburger package and letting the sandwich fall onto the plate, without touching the wrapper. He suggested microwaving the food “until steam comes out.” To watch the video, go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjDuwc9KBps&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR36-k9yRuPFwQFCOrC06IQMi1WScg9j0S0FU8eefQ_A_gf8jk07KgexAqQ
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Heartfelt Thanks
A Putnam resident put some red hearts on a storm door to thank all of the wonderful healthcare givers, support staffs, pharmacies, etc. who have so bravely helped during this time of need. He said, “Maybe this could be a reminder to all of us.” Linda Lemmon photo.
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