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6 days ago
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Willmar Summer Food Program announces 2025 locations
Jun. 4---- The 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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19-05-2025
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Three from Willmar High School Speech Team make finals in national tournament
May 19---- Students of the Speech Team made history again at the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions with three competitors making it into the final rounds of their main categories. Coach Andrew Tupa said it is the team's first time having finalists in the national competition, which was conducted May 15-18 in Kansas City, Missouri. The success comes on the heels of Adamaris Moreno and Brandon Valladares bringing home in April. The pair earned fourth place in duo interpretation in the national tournament, according to a news release from Tupa, amid more than 150 competitors in the category. Alyson Johnson, the third team member to make the tournament finals, placed fourth in informative speaking and fifth in extemporaneous speaking — among nearly 200 competitors in each category. Twelve Willmar Senior High School students competed across 23 different entries overall, which is the school's largest representation to date at a national tournament, according to the news release. Eight of those students qualified for later rounds, including the three who made the finals. Lizveth Garcia Palma made the quarterfinals, or top 30, in the impromptu category. Tangh Conklin and Brihanna Herrera made the octafinals, or top 60, in duet acting, and Brooklyn Pederson and Zavore Hunt made the same round in duo. Others who qualified and competed in the national tournament were Ahnaly Morales, Eileen Bosch, Isaac Peterson and Jaiden Fredrickson. The will next compete in the 100th National Speech and Debate Association Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa, from June 15 to June 20.
