03/26/07 Supporting Health Education

Supporting local health education. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report. Pink Lady America has teamed with the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation in a fundraising and educational effort. Alan Taylor with Pink Lady America explains. TAYLOR: This particular foundation has an education program through the local schools which helps to educate local children in the area of leading a healthy lifestyle and our product seems to fit that very well because it's a healthy product and everybody knows that apples are healthy in a number of ways so the money goes right back into helping educate children and out product certainly is part of the mix that they learn in their lesson plans in their schools. Taylor says the product is available in one local retail outlet. TAYLOR: Having this particular product sold in clamshells  4-pack clamshells and for each one of those packages that's sold there's a number of cents that goes back to that particular foundation. The idea is one that Pink Lady America is looking at expanding on. TAYLOR: We are definitely thinking about looking through this foundation and others in the region and perhaps nationally. There is a produce for kids program that's doing something very similar. We are hoping to go national with this program hopefully relatively soon. That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.