2018 Summer Meals Program: June 8 – August 10
05/21/2018
Summer Meals Program Runs June 8 - August 1 Click here for summer meals menus, locations, dates and times. Summer break may be drawing ever closer, but that doesn’t mean we stop feeding our community....
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Locally Sourced: Hollandia Dairy
03/14/2018
A lot has changed since Kathy Santos first started working at Hollandia Dairy 26 years ago. “We had cows here at the headquarters in San Marcos,” Santos laughs. “I used to stare at them out...
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WaveCrest In The News: Donors Pay Off Student Lunch Balances
02/12/2018
COMMUNITY DONORS PAY OFF VISTA STUDENTS’ LUNCH BALANCES DONANTES DE LA COMUNIDAD PAGAN LOS SALDOS DE ALMUERZO DE ESTUDIANTES DE VISTA Vista, CA | February 7, 2018 -- Two individuals in the Vista Unified...
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Locally Sourced: Colors Gourmet Pizza
01/30/2018
Martial Bricnet makes a lot of dough for the Vista Unified School District -- enough to make 300+ pizzas a day for the district’s cafe brand, WaveCrest Cafe. “I figure about 1800 kids a day...
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Survey Participation Winners Announced!
12/15/2017
Congratulations to VIDA Middle School and Alamosa Park Elementary! These two schools are the winners of our fall 2017 survey participation contest, having the highest percentage of responses as measured by school enrollment. On the...
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Central Kitchen Tour Recap
12/12/2017
The process, place and people involved in feeding over 20,000 meals to Vista Unified students every day may well be one of the district’s best-kept secrets. That’s not by design, however, and so in an...
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Welcome Sage Mountain Farm!
12/05/2017
When Phil Nobel moved from City Heights to a farm in Hemet back in 2004, he never expected he’d actually become a farmer professionally. “I worked for the property damage department of an insurance company,”...
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Green Thumbs Abound At Vista Unified School Gardens
11/27/2017
School gardens are a growing trend across the country, and San Diego County is a leader in that effort. Vista Unified alone has 14 gardens across its schools, and two of those recently celebrated robust...
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SDSU Women’s Basketball Team Visits VUSD Schools
11/03/2017
On October 11th and October 17th, members of the San Diego State University Women's Basketball team made visits to VIDA and Olive Elementary, respectively. Aztec players spoke with students about the importance of good nutritional...
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#CA Thursdays At Hannalei! 10-12-17
10/13/2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017: Today we got to visit Hannalei Elementary to celebrate #CaliforniaThursdays, and we had a blast! First off we visited three classrooms, and have to send our biggest thanks to Mr. Gorgueiro,...
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