22 receive mini-grants to promote healthy lifestyles

Twenty-two schools and childcare programs have received $1,000 mini-grants to promote nutrition and physical activity. The mini-grants will fund a variety of projects, including family nights at the school gym, fruit and veggie eating challenges, walking initiatives, and growing a vegetable garden. The mini-grants were made possible by funding from Team Nutrition and Coordinated School Health.

The following entities received mini-grants:

  • Bethesda Sharing Center, Aberdeen

  • Black Hills Special Services, Sturgis

  • Black Hills Workshop, Rapid City

  • Boys and Girls Club, Watertown (after-school program)

  • Children’s Care School, Sioux Falls

  • Colman-Egan School

  • Custer Elementary School

  • Eureka Public School

  • Grant Deuel School

  • Iroquois School District

  • Jones County School District, Murdo

  • Lil Pioneers Preschool Daycare, Rapid City

  • Lower Brule Sioux High School

  • Lutheran Social Services, Sioux Falls (after-school program)

  • Rapid City Area Schools

  • Redfield Elementary School

  • Redfield High School

  • St. Joseph School, Pierre

  • St. Thomas School, Madison

  • Tiospaye Topa School, La Plant

  • Volunteers of America, Sioux Falls

  • Washington Elementary School, Pierre             

For more information about Team Nutrition, go to http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/nutrition/. For information about Coordinated School Health, go to http://doe.sd.gov/oess/schoolhealth/index.asp.



Taken together, Senate Bill 157 and House Bill 1171 make up the education funding package for fiscal year 2008. The total K-12 funding package includes $32 million of new State money.
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