DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – Some school districts in Iowa are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid lunch accounts.

With the first day of school approaching, one man is calling on others to help pay off lunch debts, just like he did in his community.

School lunch is considered a learning necessity.

“When students are fed, they perform better in the classroom,” childhood nutritionist Kaitlyn Scheuermann said.

So, even when a child can’t pay, schools in central Iowa feed them, but the deficit in dollars unpaid is adding up.

That’s where Rick Vernon stepped up.

“I called the superintendent of schools, Tom Messinger, discussed this with him, and he said it was definitely a problem,” Vernon described.

The Newton Schools alumnus found…

Australian Plant Proteins (APP), the only manufacturer of Australian-grown faba bean and pulse protein isolates, has entered voluntary administration.

APP operates the largest of three commercial-scale plant protein fractionation facilities in Australia, producing 1200 tonnes of isolates per year at the site in Horsham, Victoria. The ingredients are used by domestic and overseas companies in products such as breakfast cereals, breads, bakery goods, snack foods, and meat and dairy alternatives.

Melbourne-based financial and business advisory firm Romanis Cant has been appointed as administrator, with the hope that APP will be sold as a going concern. It is unclear why the company ran into trouble, but a plan to construct further…

Australia’s Kimberly Meat Co. and its subsidiaries have been bought out of administration by a Canadian investor.

Alberta Investment Management Co. (AIMCo), based in Edmonton, Alberta, said it has…

Ilford taxi and delivery driver claimed £100,000 of Bounce Back Loans and failed to spend the money on his businesses

• Hafiz Saeed Ahmad, of Ilford, overstated the turnover for two businesses to falsely claim a total of £100,000 from the covid loan scheme 
• Ahmad claimed the maximum loan of £50,000 each for his taxi and delivery businesses 
• He failed to use the money for the economic support of the businesses 

A taxi driver from Ilford in East London must abide by 11 years of tough bankruptcy restrictions after falsely claiming two Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 during the covid pandemic. 

Hafiz Saeed Ahmad, 47, from Meath Road in Ilford, applied for two separate Bounce Back Loans for his delivery business, Sanwal…

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – Some school districts in Iowa are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid lunch accounts.

With the first day of school approaching, one man is calling on others to help pay off lunch debts, just like he did in his community.

School lunch is considered a learning necessity.

“When students are fed, they perform better in the classroom,” childhood nutritionist Kaitlyn Scheuermann said.

So, even when a child can’t pay, schools in central Iowa feed them, but the deficit in dollars unpaid is adding up.

That’s where Rick Vernon stepped up.

“I called the superintendent of schools, Tom Messinger, discussed this with him and he said it was definitely a problem,” Vernon described.

The Newton Schools alumnus found…

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) – Some school districts in Iowa are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid lunch accounts.

With the first day of school approaching, one man is calling on others to help pay off lunch debts, just like he did in his community.

School lunch is considered a learning necessity.

“When students are fed, they perform better in the classroom,” childhood nutritionist Kaitlyn Scheuermann said.

So, even when a child can’t pay, schools in central Iowa feed them, but the deficit in dollars unpaid is adding up.

That’s where Rick Vernon stepped up.

“I called the superintendent of schools, Tom Messinger, discussed this with him and he said it was definitely a problem,” Vernon described.

The Newton Schools alumnus found…

Company claimed to be able to provide cheap hospitality at events such as the Six Nations and Formula 1 races

• Prive Global Sports Ltd offered heavily discounted hospitality packages to businesses for in-demand sporting events 
• The company’s clients paid for packages which were later cancelled with no refunds provided 
• Customers have lost more than £600,000 in total 

A company which offered half-priced hospitality at sold-out sporting events has been shut down after cancelling the bookings at short notice and failing to pay refunds to customers. 

Prive Global Sports Ltd sent unsolicited emails to prospective clients, targeting them with high-end corporate hospitality at events such as the Six Nations Rugby and Formula 1…