City of Indian Wells Sponsors Second Annual Citrus Collection to Benefit Hidden Harvest
February 1, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Nancy Samuelson
Marketing and Public Relations
January 30, 2008
City of Indian Wells
(760) 346-2489
nsamuelson@indianwells.com
INDIAN WELLS (CA) — The City of Indian Wells will sponsor its second annual Citrus Collection to help Coachella Valley neighbors in need.
“Residents responded so enthusiastically to last year’s city-sponsored “Salvage for Sustenance” drive to aid people devastated by the January 2007 freeze that the City of Indian Wells has decided to make this an annual event,” said Indian Wells Mayor Mary T. Roche.
The Citrus Collection will run from February 1 through April 30, 2008 and is open to all Coachella Valley residents. Residents and homeowners associations are encouraged to donate extra or unwanted fruit from their trees and drop off their donations in the convenient drive-up collection bins placed outside the city’s Emergency Operations Center. The Emergency Operations Center is located next to Indian Wells City Hall at 44-950 Eldorado Drive.
Hidden Harvest, a local nonprofit produce recovery organization, will regularly collect the fruit to be distributed as a healthy food source to individuals and families in need. Hidden Harvest collected more than 65 tons of donated produce last year thanks to the generosity of the Valley community.
For more information, call (760) 346-2489.
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