In Missoula County, a program helps engage kids to play at recess. Up in Browning, an organization’s need-based food pantry provides healthy foods as part of the effort to combat health problems. The two programs are examples of ways Montana communities have worked to address childhood obesity, a problem that affects Montana less severely than most of the country but still causes concern in the Big Sky state. A 2006 report from the state of Montana pointed out that while […]
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Tammy Wham can’t get her hands on canned corn or whole grain muffins. Both are staples in the public school kitchen in Ennis, where Wham serves as kitchen manager — or, she quips, “head lunch lady.” Wham and her staff serve breakfast and lunch to roughly 340 K-12 students daily, but numerous menu items and ingredients have become difficult or impossible to acquire this fall due to national food shortages and supply chain complications. “I’ve been here since 2001,” said […]
