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Dear KFCS Families & Community:

It is that time of year again where we may experience inclement weather. We ask that all parents or guardians keep up to date contact information on file with your student’s campus to ensure that our inclement weather notices reach you via e-mail, robo calls or text messages. We also notify all of our local media outlet partners who are very good about getting the information out for us on the radio and TV.

We also post inclement weather notices on the KFCS Facebook and webpage by 6 a.m. on days where we have delayed starts or closures. Our system is set to send out inclement weather messages at 6 a.m. on days that we are going to close or delay start for inclement weather.

KFCS is in critical need of bus drivers. If you or anyone you know would like to help our students by driving a school bus, please apply on our website or call the KFCS Human Resource office @ 541-883-4702, extension 7138 for more information.

Keith A. Brown, Superintendent

Klamath Falls City Schools

“Every student, every day, whatever it takes!”

Students at Conger Elementary School left their cafeteria Tuesday with a little more knowledge on nutrition and the Native American culture.

Chartwells District Manager Hossein Akhtarkhavari made a trip from Portland, visiting school’s throughout Oregon and made a pitstop at Conger.

Chartwells is Klamath Falls City Schools food distributer, and its goal and motto are ‘Serving up Happy & Healthy.’

Akhtarkhavari was assisted by KFCS Director of Food Services, Kimberly Welles, and Megan Kirchner, OHSU dietetic intern, to help provide more insight into Native American Heritage Month, which is celebrated the entire month of November.

Akhtarkhavari, Welles and Kirchner handed out samples of corn, beans and squash to students during lunch. The effort is all a part of Chartwells’ Discovery Kitchen, a program to help introduce students to new foods every month and to try dishes which are not common.

Every month, Chartwells brings a different type of food for students to eat.

Students entered the cafeteria Tuesday and encountered a display table, which included the small sample of corn, beans and squash but also had countless vegetables and beans for them to see.

“A large percent of the students we serve in Klamath Falls, maybe 20 percent, a rough estimate, are Native American, so it was very important for us to introduce some of the Native American foods.

This is culture. It is not just food. It is how the Native Americans planted their crops. It is part of history, science and part culinary, a combination of all,” Akhtarkhavari said.

Some of the students learned for the first time the various squashes which are grown and saw spaghetti squash and acorn squash on the display table.

For many of the students, it was their first time hearing spaghetti squash can be used in making spaghetti. This was not news for Conger student, Elijah Benavidez, who spends much of his free time in the kitchen cooking.

“I love to cook. I have used corn, Chinese rice and I have used butternut squash and spaghetti squash. With the corn I made the rice and also made spaghetti. I have made brownies for a couple of my friends,” Benavidez said. “I enjoy cooking and cooking for others.”

~ By Joaquin Aguilar-Flores

Chartwells District Manager Hossein Akhtarkhavari, right, arm-wrestles with Conger students during lunchtime at Conger Elementary School Tuesday.

Southern Oregon Public TV profiled the KU Culinary Program during one of its recent episodes on the Student Showcase.

Various KU students and Rhiannon Kerr showed off their skills and interests in culinary arts during the video. Click below to see the two-minute video.

College and Career Application Week happened during the middle of November at Klamath Union with much success and had countless students apply to colleges, fill out FAFSA, Oregon Promise, apply to jobs and enlist in the military.

Universities, colleges and organizations came to visit and reserved a table to connect with students.

Congratulations to all the seniors who won not just a raffle prize, but also started to pave the way into their future. Here are some photos from the week-long event at KU.

The new district website has an Alumni page for graduates of KU. This past week, six KU alumni sent us updates on their lives since they graduated. Take a look on the KU Alumni page on the district website. And, if you are an alumni, be sure and send us YOUR update!

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December 12, 2022

Board Meeting

6:00 pm In-person & Via Zoom

To register click link below

For Public comment, you must attend the meeting in person.

If you attend via Zoom, you will be joining the meeting as listen-only.

Carol Usher, Zone 1, Roosevelt - carol.usher@kfcityschools.org

Lori Theros, Zone 2, At-Large - lori.theros@kfcityschools.org

Vanessa Bennett, Zone 3, Conger - vanessa.bennett@kfcityschools.org

Kathy Hewitt, Zone 4, Mills - kathy.hewitt@kfcityschools.org

Trina Perez, Zone 5, Pelican - trina.perez@kfcityschools.org

Patrick Fenner, Zone 6, AtLarge - patrick.fenner@kfcityschools.org

Ashley Wendt-Lusich, Zone 7 At-Large - ashley.wendt-lusich@kfcityschools.org