Beef to school program off to strong start

Readers of the Eagle may have recently noticed an ad in the paper seeking local ranchers who are willing to donate beef to Ekalaka Public Schools for the lunch program.

On December 20th, the first beef donation was dropped off at the school by Abbey Bruski of Beaver Creek Homegrown. Bruski started the program locally with the help of a processing company that does the same thing for several other area schools. She says she did it because she wanted the students in Ekalaka to get locally sourced beef without the school having to pay for it.

"Our students deserve to eat good meat where we know w...