COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — When an Alta High School student reached out to the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation to donate $2,500 to help relieve students’ school lunch debt, DJ Bracken was in disbelief.
“That was the most incredible thing I’d ever heard,” said Bracken, the nonprofit’s founder and executive director.
High school junior David “Van” Hafner used his savings, combined with funds from the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation, to help pay off Butler Elementary School’s over $6,000 school lunch debt.
Bracken and Hafner presented the school with the check on Friday, March 21, marking the 12th school the foundation has helped make debt-free. Now, Hafner is planning to continue working with the Utah Lunch Debt Relief Foundation to help…
