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To ensure children have access to nutritious meals while school is not in session, Canyons School District is proud to again be sponsoring a Summer Food Service program.

Twice-weekly, from June 1 through July 30, free meals will be distributed at curbside stations on the following campuses. All children, 18 years of age and under, are able to take advantage of the meals — not just Canyons students — and parents may pick up the meals without their children present.

• East Midvale Elementary, 6990 S. 300 East, Midvale
• Midvale Elementary, 7830 South Chapel Street Midvale
• Jordan High, 95 Beetdigger Blvd., Sandy
• Bell View Elementary, 9800 S. 800 East, Sandy
• Butler Middle, 7530 S. 2700 East, Cottonwood Heights
• Sandy Elementary, 8725 S. 280 East, Sandy
• Willow Springs Elementary, 13288 Lone Rock Drive, Draper
• Crescent Elementary, 11100 S. 230 East, Sandy
• Midvalley Elementary, 217 E. 7800 South, Midvale
• Copperview Elementary, 8449 Monroe St., Midvale

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Do you know how many libraries are located within the Canyons School District? Do you know how many items — books, textbooks, resources, equipment and other materials — are in those libraries? And how about this one: Without the help of your favorite search engine, name the author who said, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

Would it help if we gave a hint that the author was from Argentina?

If you answered one or more of those questions in the affirmative, congrats! You’re either a certified librarian or a certifiable bookworm. You’re probably even aware that April is School Library Month.

If you scratched your head and couldn’t answer the questions, don’t worry. Most of the rest of us couldn’t, either. But you’re in a good place — even better if you’re reading this from a library — to find answers to those questions and a several other interesting tidbits about libraries.

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