Blue Springs

Daken, 11, posted a video last month challenging friends, family, and even strangers and businesses to pay off the meal debt at Thomas Ultican Elementary School in Blue Springs, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.

It paid off all the debt at his school and provided nearly $4,000 to reduce meal debt at Blue Springs High School, as well.

Nearly 30% of the 15,000 students in the Blue Springs School District are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches, according to state data.

“I knew there was going to be some savings because our electricity here is very inexpensive,” said Mr. Smedley, whose business is based in Blue Springs, Mo., just east of Kansas City.

Ashlock was indicted by a federal grand jury last year along with three other Kansas City-area Proud Boys — Christopher Kuehne and William Chrestman, of Olathe, Kansas, and Louis Colon, of Blue Springs, Missouri.