This holiday season, more than ever before, our local food-based charities need our help.  That is why The Markets are partnering with Food For All for the eleventh year in a row. 

Please help us raise money for our local food banks by joining us now through January 2 in all our stores.  Look at the checkout for boards stocked with $1, $3 and $5 donation coupons when you are paying for your groceries.  It's easy:  just hand a coupon to your checker to be scanned.  Your donation every time you shop will help feed the hungry, over half of whom are children.

Your donation appears on your register receipt, and is tax deductible.  Once Food For All concludes, the money raised is distributed to the food organizations, in time for the slump in giving that happens after the holidays.

Our recipients this year include the following organizations:  Senior Meals on Wheels, Helping Hands Food Bank of Sedro Woolley, Arlington Food Bank, Oso Food  Bank, Nooksack Valley Food Bank, Bellingham Food Bank, Salt of the Earth Food Bank, Anacortes 100 Food Bank, Blaine Food Bank, Project Hope, Lighthouse Mission, Ferndale Food Bank, Southside Food Bank, Wenatchee Food Bank, Selah Civic Center Food Bank, Wapato Food Bank, Moses Lake Food Bank, Wenatchee Food Bank and Prosser Senior Center.

The Markets has raised over $160,000 to feed the hungry through Food For All.  Please help us this year to put food on the table for our hungry neighbors.  Thank you for your gifts and your generosity.  For information about Food For All, a national nonprofit organization with over 6,000 retail participants nationwide, check out www.foodforall.org .