Panera helping Gleaners feed local kids in need
Posted: 07/21/2012
Rochester Hills, Mich. (WXYZ) - With school’s out for summer, more than 315,000 children who normally eat meals in school are home and hungry.
To help, three Panera Bread stores in Rochester Hills will sell lemonade today, July 21, for just $1 all day to help combat childhood hunger across the Metro Detroit area.. Panera Bread will donate 100% of lemonade proceeds to Gleaners Community Food Bank’s Hunger Free Summer effort. Every $1 lemonade sold will sponsor six summer meals.
The participating Panera Bread stores are locate at: Rochester and Auburn roads, Adams Road and at Livernois Road and Walton Boulevard. Panera is also welcoming all Metro Detroit residents to tweet photos of their funniest lemonade “pucker face” using the hashtag #LemonAidDetroit.
Founded in 1977, Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan is one of the oldest and largest food banks in the country. Today, it distributes more than 40 million pounds of emergency food annually – equivalent to 85,284 meals per day.
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