By Claudia Lorena Silva, El Paso Matters When most El Paso students and educators are taking their first steps out of bed in the morning, hundreds of school cafeteria employees are hard at work by 6 a.m. before the sun peeks over the horizon. On the Westside, Mesita Elementary School cafeteria manager David Daniels’ team is making breakfast sandwiches for over 500 students and delivering them to classrooms before the school day starts.

Across town in far East El Paso, cafeteria manager Miriam Castañeda and her staff are making lunches of chicken salad, jalapeño pepperoni pizza and Doritos pie for nearly 2,000 students at Eastlake Middle and Col. Ben Narbuth Elementary schools. The teams led by Daniels and Castañeda are just a fraction of workers across the borderland dedicated to preparin

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