Willmar Summer Food Program announces 2025 locations
Food & Nutrition Department has announced the dates and times for their summer food program. The summer food program provides meals for area youth through in-person and van delivery.
The meal program will begin Monday, June 9, and run until Aug. 15 except on June 19 and July 4, two holidays when the program will not operate.
In-person dining, which may be hot or cold meals, is provided from Monday through Thursday on school property at the Willmar Senior High School for the program's duration and until June 26 at Willmar Middle School, the Area Learning Center and Kennedy Elementary School.
There are breakfast and lunch hours at each site, which can be found on the Summer Food Service web page under the Food & Nutrition section of the Willmar Public Schools website at
The van delivery route provides cold meals to various locations throughout Willmar. The route is followed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Van locations include Dana Heights, Scandia Woods/Suite Liv'n, Sunwood Estates, the Civic Center, Robbins Island and Dorothy Olson Aquatic Center. The van will begin its route at 9 a.m. and spend 20 minutes at each stop, ending its route at 1:20 p.m. each day.
The United Way Growmobile offers early childhood education and also distributes cold meals in partnership with Willmar Schools, according to the Growmobile flyer. Specific times are not listed, but the school map of delivery sites available online also shows the Growmobile locations.
For more information on the Summer Food Program or a complete schedule, visit the
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