Adding local foods to school lunches, improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and stopping youth smoking are programs that could get funding under a $2.5 million health and wellness grant recently received by Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC).

Former Haines Borough mayor Jan Hill is helping administer the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant that will award SEARHC nearly $500,000 a year.

The grant theme is “transforming communities to make healthy living easier,”…