(Radio Iowa) – A site in the basement of a Cedar Rapids school is serving breakfast and lunch to children and adults after Hy-Vee pulled out of their neighborhood. Wellington Heights Neighborhood Association president Eric Gutschmidt says he was proud of local leaders for putting the funding to work during an emergency.

The City of Cedar Rapids, Linn County and Teamsters Local 238 funded the site. Meghan Dittmar manages the school district’s only free meal site which city leaders hope will lessen the blow of the grocery store closing.

The meal site will run until August 16th, one week before school starts. City leaders are actively looking into how to replace the now-closed grocery store.