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Senior Living OCTOBER 22015 Senior Inside Living Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper October 8, 2015 w Lwowc.Cao ln Mneect diioan Ne Cownsnpap ecertsi.co onm LLC o nliMnoun e at Ver wwnown G .coazett nne c ❖ S t ioennior neLwivsing pa pFeall rs2.c015 om ❖ 1 Woodley Hills Food 4 Thought Fighting Hunger Firsthand helps families with food insecurity. By Tim Peterson The Gazette ina Koch and Sara Boehm of the Mount D Vernon area of Alex- andria want to teach children when they see a problem, they should step in, reach out and fix it. “There are times when we feel like it’s a lot of effort, just doing a little piece of it,” Koch said, “but that’s how things get changed.” Koch and Boehm organize Food 4 Thought at Woodley Hills El- ementary School, a program in partnership with Our Daily Bread and Fairfax County Public Schools to address some of the food needs Charlotte Koch (left) and of students who don’t receive the Karen Clark (right) help same free and reduced meals over organize food for packing the weekend that they do during at Woodley Hills Elemen- the week at school. tary School. At Woodley Hills, more than 72 percent of the student population Food 4 Thought volunteers at the Woodley Hills Elementary School community packing qualified for free or reduced meals night included (back row from left) Barb Baker, Linda Gower, Karen Clark, Sara Boehm, Photos in the 2014-2015 school year ac- Emily Boehm, Emily Wild, Henry Wild, Alicia Brooks, Jennifer Forsythe, Emma Forsythe, courtesy of cording to the Fairfax County Pub- (front row from left) Jack Boehm, Matthew Boehm, Dina Koch, Charlotte Koch and Sara Boehm lic Schools profile, up from 69 per- Aidan Koch.
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