Leonardtown, MD –The St. Mary’s County Health Department announced the recipients of the Gold Star Achievement Awards given annually to food services facilities that achieve superior food safety standards. St. Mary’s County Public Schools received 21 out of the 37 awards for 2015. An awards ceremony will be held on April 7, 2016 at 2:00p.m. in the Chesapeake Room, located in the Chesapeake Building at 41770 Baldridge Street in Leonardtown.
The requirements to earn the Gold Star are:
• No critical violations
• No temperature violations cited during a monitoring inspection
• All violations noted by an inspector must be corrected by a 30-day follow-up inspection
• No confirmed unsafe food handling complaints
• At least one food service worker completed a recognized and approved “Food Service Sanitation and Safety Class” within the last two years.
The following schools are the 2015 Gold Star recipients for St. Mary’s County Public Schools:
Banneker A Elementary
Banneker B Elementary
Chesapeake Public Charter School
Esperanza Middle
Evergreen Elementary
Fairlead Academy I
Fairlead Academy II
George Washington Carver Elementary
Great Mills High
Greenview Knolls Elementary
Hollywood ElementaryLeonardtown Elementary
Leonardtown Middle
Lettie Marshall Dent Elementary
Lexington Park Elementary
Margaret Brent Middle
Mechanicsville Elementary
Oakville Elementary
Ridge Elementary
Spring Ridge Middle
White Marsh Elementary
