By AMY RICKER
Great Bend Post
The USB 428 Board of Education presented the Rose Award Monday night at their November meeting. The Rose Award is given to recognize outstanding support in education.
"This is one of those situations where we have someone who goes above and beyond and does great things for our district by taking great care of our students. In this situation, she not only took care of our students, but she also took care of the students in a neighboring district when they lost their food service director and staff for 14 days due to a quarantine,” explained USD 428 Superintendent Khris Thexton.
Food Service Director Kristy Alvord was presented the Rose Award by Thexton who noted that she went above and beyond beginning last March and through the summer to make sure students were getting meals.
This fall, the food service department at St. John schools was put in quarantine leaving their administration scrambling to provide breakfast and lunch to their students.
“I told Kristy she was going to have to give a report to the Board to get her here, but she didn’t realize that she was going to be the report,” chuckled Thexton. “Kristy and her entire staff have done a great job for our district and represent us very, very well. She takes care of all of the things and I don’t know how she does it because there are a lot of moving parts. She does an excellent job.”
The USD 428 Food Service Department prepared an extra 100 breakfasts and an extra 300 lunches for two weeks and the district transportation department delivered the meals to the St. John school district. Thexton said sack lunches were considered but Alvord felt it would be easier for her staff to just make extra meals that they were already making for Great Bend students.