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Free breakfast, lunch for kids being served at Ripon Elementary
MUSD lunch
Manteca Unified Nutrition Services employee Thomas Laruta cooks up hamburgers on the grill Thursday for the free Summer Meal Program at Mossdale Landing Park in Lathrop.

Summer meals are back in Ripon.

That’s the free meal program available to all children in town under 18, as provided by the Ripon Unified School District.

Children must be present to receive breakfast – offered from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. – and / or lunch, from 11 a.m. to noon, at Ripon Elementary School, 509 W. Main St., Mondays through Friday.

Meal services will not be available next Monday, June 20, in observation of the Juneteenth Holiday.

For more information, call 209.599.6120.

Free summer meals are also provided to children ages 2 through 18 in Manteca, Lathrop, and Stockton via the Manteca Unified School District Nutrition Services.

The schedule will take place each week, for the exception of Monday, July 4, through July 22.

The times and places are as followed:

· Manteca – 11-11:30 a.m., Diamond Oak Park, 1179 Pestana Ave.; Lincoln Park, 245 S. Powers Ave.; Woodward Park, 710 E. Woodward Park.11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Baccilieri Park, 154Stockton St.; Sequoia Park, 868 Wawona St.; Shasta Park, 995 E. Edison St.12:30-1 p.m., B&C Giles Park, 545 W. Alameda St.; Northgate Park, 1750 Hoyt Ln.; Roberts Estates Park, 1740 Rail St.

· Lathrop – 11-11:30 a.m., Mossdale Landing, 700 Towne Centre Dr.;11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Stanford Park, 450 Spartan Way;12:30-1 p.m., Manuel Valverde Park, 15557 Fifth St.

· Stockton – 11-11:30 a.m., Smith Park, 2606William Moss Blvd.;11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Paul E.Weston Park, 3603 EWS Woods Blvd.;12:30-1 p.m., William Long Park, 4535 Woodchase Ln.

· Artessi Camp (July 8 through July 22) – 10-10:15 a.m., Artessi Camp 2, 777 W. Matthews Rd.;10:20-10:35 a.m., Artessi Camp 3, 333 W. Matthews Rd.

For more information, e-mail shuff@musd.net.