2009-01-16 / Family

Store features fresh food

Shop for School program will benefit local students

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?—Fresh &  Easy Neighborhood Market offers  a  wide  variety  of  national  brand  products.  Store  brand products have no added trans fats. The store opens 10 a.m. Wed., Jan. 28 behind the Walgreens store on Los Angeles Avenue. WHAT'S FOR DINNER?—Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market offers a wide variety of national brand products. Store brand products have no added trans fats. The store opens 10 a.m. Wed., Jan. 28 behind the Walgreens store on Los Angeles Avenue. Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market will open the doors to its store at Los Angeles and Moorpark avenues with a fiveday grand opening celebration beginning at 10 a.m. Wed., Jan. 28.

Fresh & Easy will present a $1,000 donation to a local nonprofit organization as part of the opening.

In addition to prepared meals and produce, Fresh & Easy offers national brand products and household items at budget prices.

Fresh & Easybrand products contain no added trans fats, no artificial colors or flavors, and only use preservatives when absolutely necessary.

The store will employ 20 to 30 people.

Fresh & Easy recycles or reuses all its shipping and display materials and uses environmentally friendly trailers to transport food.

The store is sponsoring a school fundraising program in Ventura County called Shop for Schools.

Schools that have registered for the program will be eligible to receive a $1 cash donation for every $20 spent at a local Fresh & Easy store.

All eligible schools with students in kindergarten through eighth grade within a 3mile radius of a Fresh & Easy store can participate in the program, which will run from Feb. 1 through March 31.

Eligible schools have been sent a registration form and must register by Fri., Jan. 23.

Schools will collect and submit store receipts for verification. The store will then send a check to the school.

The money raised can be used for whatever the school needs most.

For more information, visit freshandeasy.com/ shopforschools.

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