![]() The bill continues waivers that allow schools to offer free grab-and-go meals, but some schools will continue to only offer meals to be eaten on-site until the Michigan Department of Education says otherwise. Those waivers were set to expire before President Joe Biden signed the Keep Kids Fed Act on Saturday, extending those waivers for a third summer. Department of Agriculture waivers eased school meal regulations allowing schools to offer free meals for students to pick up. During the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. That’s all very fun, and being able to do it on a daily basis here is a very, very fortunate opportunity for me.LANSING – With most classes done for the semester, some schools are making sure their students don’t go hungry this summer.įree meals were popular among students and families over the last two summers amid the COVID-19 pandemic and some school districts are already back to feeding students again this summer.įor some meal programs, students and children can receive free meals, but they must be eaten on-site. Then, there’s the fun of being able to help people, the fun of being able to learn about new topics every day, new situations every day. I’ve always been a writer, so that’s been fun for me. Hough when John was leaving, and he gave me a very good piece of advice that I try to keep in mind every day, which is that if you write what the readers want you to put in the paper, you can’t go wrong. Obviously, we don’t use glue anymore, or even staples, but I appreciated that. They used to glue the pages together when they wrote them, and this was the glue pot or glue can that Jim used, and passed on. He left me with a souvenir he had gotten from Jim Hough, from the old days, and I like having that on my desk. I think I had two weeks that we worked side by side. MAYES: I appreciated the time I was here with him. Now, you have moved into what used to be his workstation. POHL: When I came to see John in the last week of his column, he sat at this very same workstation. They seem to be liking the column, and they seem to appreciate the topics I’m covering. I think, for the most part, the people who are talking to me are very pleased with that. I’m trying to make sure that people see the connection. I think people need to see that I am accessible. Keep me in mind for the future here’s what I think you should do it’s not going to make a column, but there is something you can do about it, to try to build that connection. Even if I can’t do a story, I try to respond and let people know that I’m listening. What I’m really trying to do is make sure I respond to as many calls and emails as I can. John and I talked about how many calls he got, how many emails he got, but I think it varies at different times. Do you have any sense for whether that has occurred? SCOTT POHL: I think John achieved a certain stature in the community, where if someone had a problem, it wasn’t unusual for them to think at some point, “I want to talk to John Schneider about this.” In this transition, I would expect that fewer people are yet used to seeing Mark Mayes in the newspaper, and that calls and approaches to the newspaper to deal with that sort of thing, maybe, have fallen off a little bit. I think I want to do some of that as well. I’d like to do some preventative things as far as letting people know about scams before they happen, ways to avoid scams, ways to maybe not run into problems, too. I think there will be times when I’ll do that, but probably a little less than what he did. I’ve really wanted to focus on that, so we have done that. There may be an opportunity to do that, but they’ve really wanted me to focus on the watchdog part of it. He always did a Sunday column that was very personal mine has not been that yet. I’m not sure I’ll be talking as much about myself, unless it’s a bigger event in my life, as he did. ![]() There are things that are different from me and John. That is what I think will be similar about it. MARK MAYES: The connection that John had with readers, in speaking with them directly and through email, and just having that connection of getting involved in their issues and their problems and helping to solve them, I think is what I liked the best about it. WKAR’s Scott Pohl spoke with Mark Mayes about how his column might be the same as Schneider’s, and how it might be different. Now, at a time when writers are losing their jobs, he’s getting his back. Mayes had left the paper to work for the Lansing School District for ten years. To replace him, the paper called on Mark Mayes, who had been a reporter there back in the 90’s. John Schneider recently ended a 24-year run as columnist for the Lansing State Journal. ![]()
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