FCS Teacher Makes Masks for District Employees
Jeannie Allgood, Director of Nutrition
Waukee Community School District staff are stepping up to help fight COVID-19. Bille Veach, Nutrition Purchasing Coordinator, is part of the district’s nutrition team preparing free meals for students every Monday-Friday. She quickly realized her team was in need of face masks to help keep everyone healthy and reached out to a Waukee High School teacher for help.
“When Billie asked me about making masks for the district’s nutrition service workers, I jumped at the opportunity to help,” Laura Calvert Family and Consumer Science Teacher at Waukee High said.
Calvert had already assembled her sisters, Kaity Gale and Lacey Calvert, to make masks for local families, so making more masks to help the school district didn’t require much thought. Calvert and her sisters made 20 masks for the Waukee Nutrition Department and 26 masks for other families in our community.
“For me, helping is something I have always felt compelled to do. When times get tough, you roll your sleeves up and help wherever you can. This was one way in which I could help people feel a little safer at the end of the day,” said Calvert.
They are currently making 50 masks for employees in the District’s Operations Department.
