North Harford welcomes our very own new cafeteria manager, Ms. Ashley Lewis, to the Hawks Nest for this upcoming school year.

     Lewis’s role as a cafeteria manager is to ensure many different aspects to student’s meals at the high school, but also at North Harford Elementary School, Dublin Elementary School, and Darlington Elementary School, where she is also responsible for assuring food services. 

     The manager explains that she is in control for various different responsibilities, such as to “supervise and participate in preparation and service of food,” as well as to  “assure compliance with all sanitation and health requirements set by the state health department and the food and  nutrition services,” and many, many, more important roles as a cafeteria manager to not only the Hawks Nest, but three other schools here in Harford County as well. 

     Lewis shares that she has “worked for Harford County Food and Nutrition in the cafeteria for 6 years now in various elementary, middle, and high schools.” 

     The nutrition worker continues that she feels that she is mostly looking forward to “being able to serve my community,” and “Being able to provide meals for our students and see the happiness it brings them.” She adds that she graduated from North Harford High School and that “this area has always been home to me.” 

     With the transition from this new job, Lewis explains that the hardest part about it was “Leaving staff and students from [her] old school,” and that she “worked at [her] old school for 4 years and when you work with people for years you create good relationships and when you leave you still have contact with people but miss seeing them every day.”

     So far, Lewis shares that her favorite thing about her job is by far “feeling welcomed to North Harford High School.” She feels as though “the cafeteria staff are already like family to me,”  Also, she states that “the staff and administration at North Harford have been very helpful and welcoming making this an easy transition for me to come to a new school.” 

     The cafeteria manager says that what inspired her most to take her newfound role here at the Hawks Nest was “to make sure that every student has an opportunity to have a nutritious meal and support their education.” The manager adds that “[she is] proud to be part of that and this inspired me to take this position so I could be more involved.”