New equipment for the school cafeteria kitchen and home economics room arrived on Oct. 12. There is more to come in the next few weeks.

Five new stoves, a refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher and clothes washer were placed in the home ec room. Mandy Randolph’s classroom also got a new stove and dishwasher.

Right when the milk refrigerator gasped its last amp, a new reach-in arrived in the cafeteria, along with a pressure cooker, proofer holding cabinet to keep trays of food warm prior to serving, an industrial strength blender and a scale.

Coming soon will be a 12-burner range with a griddle for the school cafeteria, a three-door, reach-in refrigerator and a six-well steamer serving counter will be replacing the old, rotted out one. These purchases only used up two-thirds of the money received from the Lowe’s Charitable and Education Foundation grant, so even more equipment will be coming. A portion will also be set aside to help build a root cellar-type facility to keep bulk items stored for long periods of time.