Every day this school year, students at Belle Grove Elementary School, 4502 Belle Grove Road, have been eating their share of fruits and vegetables in class, thanks to the Federal Fruit and Vegetable Program.

The state Department of Education picked Belle Grove, along with the Ferndale Early Education Center and Eastport Elementary, as three schools in the county to receive money to include more fruits and vegetables in their students' diets, said Jodi Risse, supervisor of the county schools' system's Food and Nutrition Services.

FNS submitted those schools and three others, all of which have half their students on...