Fountain Valley Businesses Hold Community Cares Food Drive

Local Businesses Hope to Inspire Others to Help Orange County Food Bank

Fountain Valley, CA – April 20, 2009 -- A group of local merchants has pooled its resources to hold an area food drive to benefit the Orange County Food Bank. Donations will be accepted from April 20–24, 2009, at various businesses in the vicinity of the Costco Plaza on Newhope Street and Talbert Avenue. The goal of the Community Cares Food Drive is to show how simple it is to start a food drive in one area that hopefully inspires other communities to do the same to help out less fortunate people in our own backyard.

“We were able to put together a weeklong food drive involving many of our fellow businesses in a very short amount of time,” said Janet Marlow, human resources representative, Kingston®. “Kingston arranged with the OC Food Bank ahead of time to deliver and pickup food collection bins. We then went out with pre-printed flyers and information to visit many of the businesses in our area. Aside from being a great way to meet our neighbors, everyone was eager and willing to help out. It took about only four hours to go door-to-door and enlist the help of many area merchants. This is a perfect example of people working together during these tough times. We can only hope this simple idea spreads to other communities.”

The most needed items are:

• Canned fruits and vegetables
• Canned meats (tuna, Spam, etc.)
• Canned soups, chili and stew
• Dry foods such as beans, rice, pasta, macaroni and cheese, cup-o-soups, cereals, oatmeal and pancake mix
• Peanut butter

• Booster Juice: 18011 Newhope St., Ste. F
• Cancun Fresh: 18010 Newhope St.
• Cartridge World: 17860 Newhope St., #105
• Cathay Bank: 17860 Newhope St., Ste. 104
• D-Link: 17595 Mt. Hermann St.
• Dippin’ Dots: 18011 Newhope St., Ste. D
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car: 17860 Newhope St. #108 and 14 other Orange County locations including Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Tustin, Westminster
• Kingston Technology: 17600 Newhope St.
• Little Saigon Noodle: 17860 Newhope St., #106
• Los Caballeros: 17272 Newhope St.
• Moving Image Technologies: 17760 Newhope St.
• Quiznos: 18011 Newhope St., Ste. C
• Subway: 17860 Newhope St.
• Trentine's Hair Co.: 17800 Newhope St., Ste. L
• Yaqui's Tacos: 17870 Newhope St., #103
• zpizza: 18011 Newhope St.

In addition, donations can be made online via virtual shopping at http://vad.aidmatrix.org/vadxml.cfm?driveid=3423.

The Orange County Food Bank distributes 15-million pounds of food annually. In addition to the 23,000 people that the Food Bank serves directly each month, it provides food and personal care items to over 300 non-profit service organizations such as churches, senior centers, shelters, social service agencies and soup kitchens.

For more information, please visit one of the participating businesses or the link above.

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