<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Washington, DC-</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By Jordan Okumura<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">01.31.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The United Fresh Foundation is welcoming a generous grant from the Safeway Foundation to support Let’s Move Salad Bars to California Schools. The Safeway Foundation grant will provide salad bars to schools in Hemet, Pleasanton and Ventura Unified School Districts in California and will benefit more than 6,000 students, according to a press release. The program helps to increase consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables at lunch. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/casalad_body01.jpg" alt="Cropped Images 01302013" /></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>“The Safeway Foundation is proud to make a difference in the many neighborhoods that Safeway serves,” said Christy Duncan-Anderson, Executive Director of the Safeway Foundation. “We are committed to promoting health and wellness for today’s consumers and for the next generation.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> With United Fresh Foundation's goal of donating salad bars to 350 California schools by May 2013, Safeway's grant will help the foundation get one more step closer.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/casalad_body02.jpg" alt="Cropped Images 01302013" /></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The Safeway Foundation supports causes that impact customers' lives and improve children’s health. The schools on the receiving end of the salad bars are located within 5 miles of a Safeway/Vons store.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> “This donation highlights the collaborative effort and commitment along the entire supply chain to improving child nutrition and combating childhood obesity by promoting increased fruit and vegetable consumption,” said Tom Stenzel, United Fresh president and CEO. “Salad bars are the easiest, most effective way for schools to meet the new federal school lunch standards and make it possible for students to ‘make half their plate fruits and vegetables’ as recommended by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for America.”</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Schools in Hemet receiving salad bars include: Ramona Elementary, Jacob Weins Elementary and Little Lake Elementary Schools. In Pleasanton, Valley View Elementary, Donlon Elementary, Fairlands Elementary and Hearst Elementary Schools. In Ventura salad bars will be provided to EP Foster Elementary and De Anza Middle School. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.safewayfoundation.org" target="_new"> Safeway</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
