Two adjustments to Oneontaas Summer Food Service Program will allow the service to benefit more individuals this year, an organizer said Thursday.

Thanks to funding from United Way, adults accompanying children to the afternoon program this year will be able to partake alongside their kids, according to Christy R. This will be the third year Catholic Charities has offered the service.

aPeople from low-income families depend highly upon free school meal programs to give their children free or reduced lunch and breakfast,a Houck said. And letting adults in on the program will help even more, she said.

Catholic Charities sponsors the program, but there are many other area organizations that contribute to the effort, including the Oneonta City School District, which will offer a bookmobile once or twice a week; Fidelis Care, which will make smoothies on Fridays; and the First United Presbyterian Church in Oneonta, which coordinates volunteers to serve meals and will be doing a craft once a week.

aItas a really great partnership and such a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere,a Houck said. Department of Agricultureas online Summer Meals Site Finder, children who donat live in Oneonta can find free meals at Otego Elementary School, Charlotte Valley Central School, Wilber Park in Milford, Morris Central School, Unadilla Valley Central School, the village of Sidney, the First United Methodist Church in Walton, Walton High School, Townsend Elementary School in Walton, the Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES, Guilford Elementary School, Jefferson Central School, Stamford Central School, Greenlawn Elementary School in Bainbridge, Perry Browne Intermediate School in Norwich, Guernsey Memorial Library in Norwich, Richfield Springs Elementary School, the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES and Deposit Elementary School.