Free meals are available to youths 18 and under in Flathead County over the summer months when school is not in session.

No registration, proof of income or identification is required to participate at any location, and all youths are welcome to participate at any site. The Summer Food Service Program works to ensure that youth from low-income families and neighborhoods get nutritious meals when school is on summer break. School districts receive federal and state reimbursement for the number of meals served.  

Children who qualify for free or reduced meals during the school year may also be eligible for the Sun Bucks program administered by the Montana Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, visit dphhs.mt.gov, call 406-444-0044 or email [email protected].   

For more information about the USDA summer meals program or to search for participating locations visit https://www.fns.usda.gov/sfsp.  

Below is a list of locations and times meals will be served. No meals will be served on July 4. 

Whitefish  

Lunches will be served weekdays, June 17 through Aug. 19. Meals will not be served on July 3.  

For more information, call Whitefish Food Services at 406-862-8620.  

10:40 to 11:15 a.m. Olney Bissell School, 5955 Farm to Market Road. Weekend bags will be distributed on Fridays.   

10:45 to 11:05 a.m., Forest Acres, 4870 U.S. 93.  

11:20 to 11:45 a.m., Skate Park, 290 Armory Road.  

12:20 to 12:40 p.m. City Beach, Lakeside Boulevard. 

Trego 

Five days' worth of food will be distributed on Fridays through partnership from North Valley Food Bank, June 5 through Aug. 18, from 12 – 1 p.m. on Fridays at TFS Community Hall, 312 Fortine Creek Rd. 

Columbia Falls, Hungry Horse, Martin City and Coram 

The nonprofit, Land to Hand, will serve lunch Monday through Thursday, June 17 through Aug. 19, at the Wildcat Garden Building. Land to Hand will also be distributing meals to cover weekends. 

— June 17 through Aug. 19 

11 to 11:30 a.m., (lunch) Wildcat Garden Building, 297 Veteran Dr., Columbia Falls. Weekend bags will be served through Aug. 21 

— June 15-16 and Aug. 24-25  

3 to 5 p.m. (weekend bags), Columbia Falls Kids Foundation, 540 Fourth Ave. W., Columbia Falls.  

Columbia Falls School District will serve breakfast and lunch Mondays through Thursdays, starting June 22 at Glacier Gateway Elementary School in Columbia Falls. Weekend bags will also be distributed on Thursdays.   

Starting June 25, five days' worth of breakfast and lunch will be distributed in Hungry Horse, Martin City and Coram on Thursdays.  

For more information, call the Columbia Falls School District Food Service Department at 406-892-6540, extension 2005.  

— Monday through Thursday, June 22-30, July 6-30 and Aug. 3-20.  

9 to 10 a.m. (breakfast), noon to 1 p.m. (lunch), Glacier Gateway School, 440 Fourth Ave. W., Columbia Falls.  

— Thursdays, June 25; July 9, 16, 23 and 30; and Aug. 6, 13 and 20.  

9 to 9:45 a.m., Hungry Horse Fire Department, 145 Hungry Horse Boulevard, Hungry Horse.  

10 to 10:45 a.m., Martin City Fire Department, 320 Central Ave., Martin City.  

11 to 11:45 p.m., Coram Post Office, 10055 U.S. 2 E., Coram.   

Kalispell and Evergreen  

Kalispell Public Schools will serve breakfast and lunch weekdays from June 17 through Aug. 14. No meals will be served on July 3. All breakfasts are served with fruit and milk. All lunches are served with fruit, vegetables and milk.  

For more information call the Kalispell Public Schools Food Services Department at 406-751-3400 extension 3443. 

11 to 11:15 a.m., Hawthorne Park on Hawthorne Avenue.  

11:15 a.m., Evergreen Jr. High, 20 W. Evergreen Dr.  

11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (lunch only), Logan Fitness Center, 205 Sunnyview Lane (west end of the parking lot).  

11:25 to 11:40 a.m., Empire Estates Park off of Three Mile on Empire Loop.  

11:25 to 11:40 a.m., Hedges Elementary School, 827 Fourth Ave. E.  

11:50 a.m. to 12:05 p.m., Northridge Park on Northridge Drive.  

11:50 a.m. to 12:05 p.m., Begg Park, 57 Begg Park Dr.  

12:15 to 12:30 p.m., Lawrence Park, 1105 N. Main St.  

12:15 to 12:30 p.m., Elrod Elementary School, 412 Third Ave. W.    

12:35 to12:55 p.m., Russell Elementary School, 227 W. Nevada St.  

12:35 to 12:55 p.m., Peterson Elementary School, 1119 Second St W., in Meridian Park.    

Somers and Lakeside  

Breakfast and lunch will be ready for pickup on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays June 17 through Aug. 21. Families will be able to pick up two days' worth of meals each time.  

For more information call Somers-Lakeside School District Food Services at 406-249-7313 or email [email protected].  

11 to 11:45 a.m., Somers Middle School, 315 School Addition Road, Somers.  

12:10 to 12:30 p.m. Lakeside Elementary, 255 Adams St., Lakeside.  

12:40 to 12:50 p.m. (Mondays only), bulk meal pick-up site at the corner of Blacktail and Tamarack Woods Drive in Lakeside.