Date and Time
Thursday Nov 3, 2022
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
11:45 a.m. Ceremony - Brief ceremony begins - followed immediately by a ribbon cutting and lunch to be served. Food will be served from the new M.E.A.L.S. trailer.
Location
DSHS STEM Center
Range Ave.
Denham Springs, LA
1129 S Range Ave. Denham Springs LA 70726
Fees/Admission
No charge to attend
Website
More About This Project
Description
Leadership Livingston Project Reveal - LPPS Food Trailer
The M.E.A.L.S. project is a food serving trailer that will travel parish wide to different high schools and junior high schools serving students. The purpose is Pro Start students to develop menus prepared by food service workers from the school system. The trailer will be managed by school employees. The menus will include foods that utilize local growers and agriculture products. Students will have an opportunity to try, and to sample items before adding them to the school menus. The trailer is expected to be on various school sites 2 - 3 times per week.
Officials from the school systems food service program, who are also graduates of the Leadership program, approached the group to take on the project. The group agreed and submitted the project proposal where they would raise funds for the trailer. The trailer was custom ordered to fill the specifications for LPPS food service. The school system then added the kitchen equipment and the branding wrap with the new name "Curbside Cafe".
The project was administered through the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Livingston Program. The Chamber also has a C3 arm where donations for the food trailer are administered. The project is overseen by the Chamber's CEO and Leadership Livingston program facilitator, April Wehrs. Purchasing of the trailer, transfer of title, administration of funds, mentoring of the project team members and many other areas are overseen by the Leadership Livingston program and the Chamber. For more information on the program, contact the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce.
Funds were raised through sponsorship and individual contributions from members of the project group.
Gold Sponsors:
- AllStar Automotive,
- Quality Engineering,
- Black Label Holdings,
- Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office,
- Ochsner Health,
- Neighbors Federal Credit Union,
- Pelican State Credit Union
- Livingston Chamber Foundation
- Bank of Zachary,
- Livingston Parish Assessor's Office,
- Livingston Chamber Foundation,
- Gary O'Neal,
- John Dillon
- Nicky Gautreau,
- Lance Landry,
- Amanda Seals,
- Tim McMasters,
- Christine Patrick
- Chris Neal
- Frogs Wholesale Fuel,
- Frogs at Magnolia Beach
Original source can be found here.
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