Maine School Nutrition Association
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President’s Message-
Here we are coming down the home stretch. We had another successful race in
January. Our attendance was over 150 participants for a three day staggered
conference. We had a three day First Choice Procurement Workshop for directors
from National Food Service Management Institute. We also had three different
workshops for managers.
Our first day was Management Skills for Success presented by the National Food
Service Management Institute. The second day of the conference was USDA Healthier
School Challenge. On this day, 11 school districts presented 39 notebooks to the State
Education Department and USDA to be reviewed. If the reviews are successful, the
school districts will be presented with either a gold, silver or bronze award. Later on in
the afternoon, we had our NOI food show, which we felt was very successful. The last
day of the conference, the managers went to a Marketing and Recruiting Session with
Mary Moody.
We just came back from Washington, DC where we attended the Legislative Action
Conference. We will be going to Colorado Springs in April to the National Leadership
Conference to prepare our two in coming Presidents to gather information on our
annual summer conference at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine.
Thank you for all your support as President of MSNA for 2010-2011.
Respectfully submitted,
Darlene French, MSNA President 2010-2011