There’s going to be some food options for students at Fort Frances High School this fall.
The cafeteria is reopening under a program being overseen by Northern Community Development Services, or NCDS, in partnership with the high school.
Executive Director Nicki Paddock says a grant is helping them create a not-for-profit operation called The Caf Co.
“Fort High needed a cafeteria to run again. We’re also going to try to do work training programs through it for our clients, for the coop students there at the high school. We’ve been talking with Seven Generations (Education Institute) about running possible for training programs too,” says Paddock.
NCDS is now in the process of hiring staff. Paddock says the hope is to open by October.
“(We’re) gonna go year by year. We’re going to test out the first year. We have projected sales and it looks good on paper but you got to do it to figure out that the bottom line.”
While it’s a unique venture for NCDS, Paddock says it’s something that is being done elsewhere. Paddock says they got the idea from Hearst where an employment agency in that northeastern Ontario community is overseeing cafeteria operation at the local high school.
