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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Starting October 5th Blue Bomber fans can purchase a limited number of tickets (350 per game) for the two remaining regular season home games (October 22nd against the Montreal Alouettes and October 28th against the Toronto Argonauts) for $30 plus tax, exclusively at Madison Square Safeway located at 1612 Ness Avenue near Canad Inns Stadium. A portion of each ticket sold ($7.25) will be donated by Safeway and the Blue Bombers to Football Manitoba in a trust fund for two scholarships in honour of Coach Harris for the 2012 football season.[Click on PIc to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway Announces Portland, Oregon as Winner of “America’s Most Natural City” Contest

To celebrate all things natural, Safeway (NYSE: SWY) aimed to add a much-needed cash infusion into America’s parks and recreation organizations by rallying the public to vote in its “America’s Most Natural City” Facebook contest. Based on Portland’s natural attractions, from its green spaces to its outdoor activities, voters named it “America’s Most Natural City.” [Click on Logo to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway Launches Annual Breast Cancer Research Fundraising Campaign

The company has raised more than $94 million for the cause since 2001. The funds benefit leading-edge breast cancer research projects at some of North America’s top cancer centers as well as a range of nonprofit organizations focused on new treatments, raising awareness and enabling early detection. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway’s Pioneering Seafood Sustainability Program Highlighted in California Academy of Sciences Exhibit

This year, Canada Safeway Ltd. secured a comparable strategic partnership with SeaChoice, a national Canadian coalition of leading environmental organizations focused on seafood sustainability. Similar to the U.S. operations, Safeway Canada and SeaChoice will engage with suppliers to assess and improve sustainable seafood procurement, as well as educate employees and customers about the environmental concerns associated with seafood. [Click on PIc to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway Appoints Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Kent Bradley has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer, a newly created position focused on further enhancing and building Safeway’s reputation as a health care innovator. He will have overall responsibility for developing and guiding the company’s extensive portfolio of health care programs including its employee and consumer wellness and prevention activities. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway Raises $10.4 Million to Help Fight Neuromuscular Disease

Over the years, individual Safeway stores and operating divisions have collected donations for the organization through local grassroots fundraising efforts. In addition, groups of employees volunteered by answering phones at local broadcasts of the annual telethon. [Click on Logo to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Safeway Launches People’s Choice Contest to Determine “America’s Most Natural City”

Safeway (NYSE: SWY) is tapping into the power of Facebook to determine “America’s Most Natural City.” The winning city will be awarded with 25 picnic tables, sectioned off from the 305-foot Douglas Fir table that recently broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Longest Picnic Table, which was built in celebration of Safeway’s Open Nature(TM), a new 100 percent natural line of high-quality foods. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Canada Safeway teams up with Muscular Dystrophy Canada to “Make Muscles Move”

Safeway, one of the largest corporate supporters of families living with disabilities in Western Canada dedicates the entire month of August to raising funds for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Last year $1.2 million was raised in Western Canada through a variety of in-store fundraising events, the Safeway Walk for Muscular Dystrophy as well as donations received from customers. [Click on Logo to lean more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Canada Safeway Commits to a Sustainable Seafood Policy

At the core of Safeway’s policy is their sustainable seafood commitment: by 2015, all fresh and frozen seafood will be sourced from sustainable and traceable sources, or be in a credible improvement project. To meet this goal, SeaChoice and Canada Safeway will engage with the retailer’s suppliers to assess and improve sustainable seafood procurement, as well as educate employees and customers about the environmental concerns associated with seafood. [Click on Pic to learn more]

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Blue Bombers and Safeway Team Up To Offer Scholarships in Honour of Coach Richard Harris

Canada Safeway Celebrates 2011 Prostate Cancer Campaign

Safeway, one of the largest corporate supporters of cancer research and outreach, dedicates the entire month of June to raising funds at its 215 Western Canadian Stores as well as its 1479 stores in the United States. More than $65.4 million has been raised across Northern America in the past decade which has made a tremendous impact on Prostate Cancer research and support programs for men and their families.[Click on Pic to learn more]

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