It's Food Bank Friday + Kudos to Widespead Panic

[EFerrari]

Charter One Bank teams with Widespread Panic to collect food and donations for the Greater Chicago Food Depository

Concert attendees can help fight hunger at the Charter One Pavilion in celebration of Hunger Action Month

08.21.2009 – CHICAGO – Charter One announced today that it is partnering with Widespread Panic to collect non-perishable food and monetary donations at the band’s upcoming performances with The Allman Brothers Band at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island on Sept. 1 and 2. This food drive, part of the bank’s summer-long Making Music Matter program benefiting the Greater Chicago Food Depository, will help kick off Hunger Action Month, a national campaign to motivate local action to end hunger.

“Widespread Panic and its fans have a long-standing tradition of participation in hunger relief efforts, and we’re thrilled to partner with the band here in Chicago as part of our summer-long Making Music Matter initiative supporting the Greater Chicago Food Depository,” said Stacey R. Sather, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Affairs at Charter One. “We’re asking concert attendees to join Charter One in our efforts by bringing non-perishable food items or cash donations to these special performances.”

Concert attendees who wish to contribute should visit the Charter One tent just inside the main gates of the Charter One Pavilion where they will have the opportunity to make their donation and partake in fun activities. Food donations will be weighed by Food Depository volunteers and the heaviest donation, by 7:30 p.m. each night, will win exclusive merchandise provided by Widespread Panic – including a limited-edition tour poster signed by all six band members and a copy of “Huntsville 1996,” an acclaimed and much sought-after recording. Cash contributions will also be accepted and donors will spin the Charter One prize wheel, which features iPods, iTunes gift cards, free concessions and a variety of other merchandise.

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Thanks, DU! :hi:

[jannyk]

1. No can get linky to work :(

[EFerrari]

2. I'm sorry! Maybe it was too long. Try this one:

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[EFerrari]

3. Kick

[EFerrari]

4. Colbert Watcher is going to be pissed at me for being an abject failure.

lol

Kick

[bleever]

5. Is there such thing as an unappreciation thread?

Here's a rec for ya, Beth.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

7. Thank you, bleever!

I don't think Colbert Watcher gets violent but, who wants to risk it?!

lol

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[EFerrari]

8. Thank you, as always, Solly Mack.

I hope things have calmed down in your neighborhood. :hi:

[Solly Mack]

9. The man surrendered on Thursday...so all is well.

He was being evicted for not paying rent for several months and got mad at his landlord....so he bombed them. :(

[EFerrari]

10. Yikes. This must be a bad time to be in property management

-- all those stressed out people. :(

[Solly Mack]

11. Some people wouldn't leave and watched from their balconies

I stayed at home myself. I'm not that curious. :)

He used a grenade first - just 3 miles up the road from me and then he went and bombed his landlord.

[Donnachaidh]

12. two things you SHOULD add to the list

LIGHT BULBS and BATTERIES.

Broke people don't think about light bulbs until they blow out. And batteries, even a dual pack of 9 volts, can keep smoke detectors going.

[EFerrari]

13. Those are excellent suggestions. Thanks!