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| Maine School Nutrition Association |
President’s Message
Congratulations to Cheryl Dixon from the Horace Mitchell Elementary School in Kittery. Cheryl is our
2010 Louise Sublette Maine State Winner! Cheryl created a project incorporating the 5-2-1-0
program, Farm to School, and Composting to educate the children in her school about the importance
of exercise, eating local fruits and vegetables and using the leftovers to make soil to grow more. She
involved her entire district in the process, even asking Superintendent Larry Littlefield to teach a
composting class to 3rd graders. Children were tested before and after the project to prove their
increased knowledge in all three subjects. Cheryl receives a $500 prize from MSFSA to use toward
attending SNA’s Annual National Conference to be held in Dallas, Texas this summer. Cheryl’s project
will be judged in the Northeast Regional competition to see if it qualifies to go up against the National
round of entries. Good Luck Cheryl!
This is a very busy spring for our MSFSA board. Maine hosted a by-laws workshop in South Portland
with SNA expert Patti Montague. Representatives from New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Maine attended to start the work on revising by-laws, policies and procedures. It is important as
affiliates of SNA to keep the process within their guidelines and we appreciate the hard work of our
board members taking their time to do this difficult job.
Spring is finally here and it feels as though our school year is on the “home stretch”. It’s time to make
plans to attend both ANC in Dallas and our Annual Summer Conference in Bethel, Maine. Program
committee members are hard at work making plans to give you sessions and events that you’ll value
and enjoy.
As many of you know, school nutrition programs are under a “media microscope” these days. Many of
our colleagues are upset about the negative views that have been aired recently in the news,
especially the sensationalism on the new TV show about school meals. Unfortunately, most people
believe everything they hear, so it’s up to us to make sure they hear the right information. We need to
use this attention to our advantage and point out the great things that are happening in our schools.
School Nutrition in Maine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and if we don’t call
attention to it people will think that what they hear on television is true here as well. MSFSA would like
to showcase the successful practices going on throughout Maine schools. You can e-mail articles and
pictures to me at ddemers@yorkschools.org. Remember, someone once said, “Life is 10% what
happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Take some time to publicly pat yourself on the back, you
deserve it!
Doris
Congratulations to Cheryl Dixon from the Horace Mitchell Elementary School in Kittery. Cheryl is our
2010 Louise Sublette Maine State Winner! Cheryl created a project incorporating the 5-2-1-0
program, Farm to School, and Composting to educate the children in her school about the importance
of exercise, eating local fruits and vegetables and using the leftovers to make soil to grow more. She
involved her entire district in the process, even asking Superintendent Larry Littlefield to teach a
composting class to 3rd graders. Children were tested before and after the project to prove their
increased knowledge in all three subjects. Cheryl receives a $500 prize from MSFSA to use toward
attending SNA’s Annual National Conference to be held in Dallas, Texas this summer. Cheryl’s project
will be judged in the Northeast Regional competition to see if it qualifies to go up against the National
round of entries. Good Luck Cheryl!
This is a very busy spring for our MSFSA board. Maine hosted a by-laws workshop in South Portland
with SNA expert Patti Montague. Representatives from New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Maine attended to start the work on revising by-laws, policies and procedures. It is important as
affiliates of SNA to keep the process within their guidelines and we appreciate the hard work of our
board members taking their time to do this difficult job.
Spring is finally here and it feels as though our school year is on the “home stretch”. It’s time to make
plans to attend both ANC in Dallas and our Annual Summer Conference in Bethel, Maine. Program
committee members are hard at work making plans to give you sessions and events that you’ll value
and enjoy.
As many of you know, school nutrition programs are under a “media microscope” these days. Many of
our colleagues are upset about the negative views that have been aired recently in the news,
especially the sensationalism on the new TV show about school meals. Unfortunately, most people
believe everything they hear, so it’s up to us to make sure they hear the right information. We need to
use this attention to our advantage and point out the great things that are happening in our schools.
School Nutrition in Maine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and if we don’t call
attention to it people will think that what they hear on television is true here as well. MSFSA would like
to showcase the successful practices going on throughout Maine schools. You can e-mail articles and
pictures to me at ddemers@yorkschools.org. Remember, someone once said, “Life is 10% what
happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Take some time to publicly pat yourself on the back, you
deserve it!
Doris