Month: June 2025

Summer Food Service Program Returns

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Cimarron-Memorial HS5/27/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:50 AM – 8:05 AM11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Garehime, Edith ES5/27/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday8:30 AM – 9:00 AM12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Katz, Edythe and Lloyd ES5/27/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday8:30 AM – 8:45 AM11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
McMillan, James B. ES5/27/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday8:30 AM – 8:45 AM11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Parson, Claude H. and Stella M. ES5/27/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday9:40 AM – 9:55 AM12:30 PM – 12:45 PM
Tobler, R. E. ES5/27/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday9:45 AM – 10:00 AM12:15 PM – 12:30 PM
Clark, Ed W. HS5/28/20257/18/2025Monday – Friday8:30 AM – 8:45 AM11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Legacy HS5/28/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:45 AM – 8:00 AM11:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Centennial HS6/2/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:40 AM – 8:05 AM12:05 PM – 12:20 PM
Durango HS6/2/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday8:00 AM – 8:30 AM11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Western HS6/2/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:45 AM – 8:00 AM10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Garrett, Elton M. and Madelaine E. JHS6/9/20256/27/2025Monday – Friday9:20 AM – 9:35 AM12:00 PM – 12:15 PM
Allen, Dean LaMar ES6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday9:30 AM – 9:45 AM12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
Barber, Shirley A. ES6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday9:20 AM – 9:35 AM12:15 PM – 12:30 PM
Basic Academy of International Studies (Session 2)6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:30 AM – 7:45 AM11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Becker, Sr., Ernest A. MS6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:35 AM – 7:50 AM11:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Bennett, William G. ES6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday7:45 AM – 8:00 AM11:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Bilbray, James H. ES6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday8:45 AM – 9:00 AM12:20 PM – 12:35 PM
Brookman, Eileen B. ES6/23/20257/17/2025Monday – Friday9:00 AM – 9:15 AM11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

SFSP, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and is administered by the Nevada Department of Agriculture, provides nutritious meals to children during the summer when free and reduced-price school meals are typically unavailable. Free meals will be made available to children 18 years of age and under.  Persons over 18 years of age who are determined by a state or local public educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled and who also participate in a public or private non-profit school program during the regular school year may receive free meals as well. SFSP sites will also provide children access to restrooms and potable water. Due to SFSP federal regulations, meals must be consumed on-site.

#EmptyPlatesProtest: Start your fast today!

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National Relay Fast to Protest Massive Cuts to Health Care, Food Assistance, and other Basic Needs

Urgent Action Needed!

Hungry For Justice. Millions of people could lose food assistance if the Senate passes its budget bill that includes devasting cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), our nation’s first line of defense against hunger. Senate Leader Thune (R-SD) intends to move the bill this week.

SNAP not only supports vulnerable children, older adults, and working families, it also boosts local economies. Cuts to SNAP will deepen food insecurity, raise healthcare costs, and strain states and municipalities, all to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.  We’re going hungry to prevent millions of Americans from going hungry, losing healthcare, and paying more for basic needs due to devastating cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, the Child Tax Credit and other basic needs in the budget reconciliation bill.

Join Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and other national organizations in a protest fast (started June 23), to stand in solidarity with the millions of people who could lose access to food assistance, health care, and other basic needs.

  1. Join the #EmptyPlatesProtest
  2. Fast for 24 hours any day between June 23 and July 4, 2025.
  3. Tell your Senator to reject budget reconciliation bill cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, Child Tax Credit.
  4. Use the FRAC Action Network to send a message directly to your Senators urging them to oppose any cuts to SNAP and to vote “No” on this harmful bill that would increase hunger.
  5. Invite a friend to do the same.

The national relay fast will continue until Congress breaks for the July 4th recess.

*If you can’t fast for 24 hours, pledge to skip a meal or two in solidarity with the millions who won’t have food on the table or health coverage.

Learn more at protestfast.org.

Protect Rural Hospitals

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Faith-rooted communities value care access for all, cutting Medicaid contradicts principles of compassion.

Rural communities in Elko, Ely, Eureka, and Douglas County depend on these hospitals not only for urgent care, but also for long‑term elder support.

Affects on Nevada:

  • Rural hospitals may face closure.
  • Medicaid recipients could lose essential services.
  • The state could face major healthcare funding shortfalls and increased disparities.

Medicaid cuts would disproportionately harm elderly, low-income families, and those with chronic conditions, which directly contradicts the ELCA’s commitment to healthcare as a shared responsibility and a human right (ELCA Social Statement: Caring for Health). It threatens the dignity and wellbeing of the most vulnerable among us.

Tell your Senators to defend Medicaid funding for rural Nevada.