{"id":3988,"date":"2022-06-09T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:43:21","slug":"lunch-lady-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2022\/06\/09\/lunch-lady-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafeteria Staff&#8217;s Yadira Childs Says Serving Students &#8216;Makes Me So Happy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-1024x646.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-768x485.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-1536x970.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-2048x1293.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Yadira-Childs-cafeteria-staff-570x360.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yadira Childs joined the EHS food service staff in October. (Photo by Maritza Espinoza \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Yadira Childs is one of the food service staff members for Elmira High School and has worked at the school since October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Childs said it has always been her dream to work in a kitchen, serving people and brightening their day. To her, helping, serving and seeing the students at Elmira High School is a blessing and the highlight of her day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her inspiration has been her mother. As a child, her mom would look after her sister and her with the utmost care, Childs said. Her mom worked as a seamstress while raising her children. Her mother today has continued to chase and achieve her dreams by returning to higher education, further inspiring Childs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has always been my mom,&#8221; Childs said. &#8220;She reached her highest goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a caretaker herself, Childs said she understands the unconditional love and struggles of handling children. She enjoys spending time with orphans. She acknowledges that the sacrifices that her mother&nbsp;made both for her sister and her were not easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Childs has a husband and one pet, a female all-black cat whose name is Midnight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each spring break, Childs goes to her home country of Mexico on a mission trip to build homes for the less fortunate and to provide other necessities such as blankets. She said she has been taking the trip for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she appreciates all of the students who attend EHS and wants to thank them for giving her the opportunity to pursue her dream of working in a kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI really enjoy serving people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It makes me so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She says it has always been her dream to work in a kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-features","category-staff-spotlight","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}