''Incredibles'' Collectibles Only at Vons; Last Chance to Collect All Six Buttons and Support Local Food Banks.ARCADIA, Calif. -- If you've ever felt the call of duty and needed to flex your strength, here's your chance... Through the end of the year, Vons will be offering collectible pins featuring characters from Walt Disney's presentation of a Pixar Annimation Studios film, "The Incredibles." With a total of six different buttons showcasing this year's coolest, strongest, fastest, stretchiest, most transparent characters to hit the silver screen, this is your chance to become a community hero. One hundred percent of the proceeds of each $2 pin sale will go toward the local America's Second Harvest America's Second Harvest is a United States based nonprofit organization. It consists of a nation-wide network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue organizations that serve virtually every county in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. food bank, the nation's leading food bank organization dedicated to eradicating hunger. Vons, Disney and Pixar have partnered with America's Second Harvest to highlight the issue of hunger during the holiday season. Come in to Vons to collect all six pins and do your part to help fight hunger Fight Hunger is a global initiative, based in Rome, Italy [1], calling for the end of child hunger by 2015 [2]. It is organised by the World Food Programme and its partners, and comprises different activities throughout the year. - and get a fantastic stocking stuffer in the process. With community heroes, we can raise over $500,00 to help families in need this holiday season. ABOUT VONS, A SAFEWAY COMPANY Vons is a division of Safeway, Inc. (SWY), one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. based on annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. sales of approximately $33 billion. The company operates more than 1,700 stores in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada, with 319 stores in southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and southern Nevada under the Vons and Pavilions banners. For more information, visit the web site at www.vons.com. ABOUT AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a national network of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue programs, serving all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It distributes 1.4 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. For more information, visit the web site at www.secondharvest.com. |
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