It was a year ago next week that the Saint Joseph School District turned its lunch and breakfast program over to a private company. Director Tonya McCrea says Opaa! Food Management is successfully implementing new federal nutrition standards, and students are adapting to the changes.

She says the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act will impose more new standards in two years, and another batch of new rules two years after that.

Superintendent Dr. Fred Czerwonka says Opaa! has also taken the program from a $600,000 deficit to a projected $400,000 surplus by the end of this year, a $1-million change for the better.