Nevaeh Williams, left, and Cheyenne Murphy ride home Wednesday with fruit smoothies that they were given by the members of the Auburn School Department. Nancy Berube and Andy Buchanon of the department’s summer feeding program handed out mixed berry and strawberry-banana smoothies to help keep children cool on such a hot day. Free meals are available for children 18 and under at designated pick up sites each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to noon. Pickup sights are at Walton, Washburn and Park Avenue elementary schools. Wednesday’s special smoothie day was at the Auburn PAL Center. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Free Mixed berry and strawberry-banana smoothies wait to be handed out Wednesday by the Auburn School Department to help keep children cool and fed. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Nancy Berube of the Auburn School Department hands out a free strawberry-banana smoothie Wednesday at the Auburn PAL Center. Berube works in the kitchen at Fairview Elementary School during the school year. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Nikayla Maheux, 11, of Auburn sips her strawberry-banana smoothie Wednesday while Aliza Fisher, 8, receives her own from Auburn School Department summer feeding program workers Nancy Berube and Andy Buchanon, who offered mixed berry and strawberry-banana smoothies to help keep children cool on such a hot day. Free meals are available for children 18 and under at designated pick up sites each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to noon. Pickup sights are at Walton, Washburn and Park Avenue elementary schools. Wednesday’s special smoothie day was at the Auburn PAL Center. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal