Mountain Views News          Saturday, September 25, 2010

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AROUND THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

MountainViews-News Saturday, September 25, 2010 

New Market Wins Green 
Award 

U.S. EPA Recognizes SoCal supermarkets Sprouts 
Farmers Market, Supervalu, as GreenChill Partners for 
Environmental Achievements

LOS ANGELES – Sprouts Farmers Market 
and Supervalu, parent company of Lucky’s 
Southern California and Albertsons, 
are among the recipients of this year’s 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 
GreenChill Partnership 2010 Environmental 
Achievement Awards. Regional supermarket 
companies featured prominently among the 
award winners.

GreenChill is an EPA partnership with 
supermarkets to reduce refrigerant emissions 
and decrease their impact on the ozone layer 
and climate change. GreenChill partners 
work to transition to low-impact refrigerants; 
lower refrigerant charge sizes and eliminate 
leaks; and adopt green refrigeration 
technologies, strategies, and practices.

Sprouts Farmers Market was recognized by 
EPA for having the best emissions rate of all 
GreenChill partner companies. The "Best 
Emissions Rate" Award is the most prestigious 
of GreenChill's annual environmental 
achievement awards. 

"Sprouts Farmers Market is a great example 
of a new GreenChill partner 'getting it right' 
right from the start,” said Keilly Witman, 
Manager of EPA's GreenChill Partnership. “It 
is impressive that in their first reporting year 
as part of the GreenChill Partnership, they've 
won our ‘Best Emissions Rate’ Award." 

Supervalu, parent company of Lucky’s 
Southern California and Albertsons, earned 
a GreenChill Environmental Achievement 
Award for exceeding the company’s 
target emissions reduction goal to reduce 
greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting 
refrigerant emissions. 

“When companies join GreenChill and 
agree to go above and beyond regulatory 
requirements to reduce harmful refrigerant 
emissions from their stores, they are 
committing to set challenging annual 
emissions reduction goals,” said Witman. 
“The employees of the companies that 
exceeded their voluntary reduction goals 
deserve to be very proud that their hard 
work throughout the year paid off. The 
main beneficiary of this hard work is the 
environment. These stores’ customers can 
feel proud that their supermarkets take 
environmental protection seriously.”

Supervalu also earned GreenChill’s 
Distinguished Supermarket Partner Award 
for the company’s overall efforts to advance 
the mission of EPA’s GreenChill Partnership. 

"Supervalu's many contributions to EPA's 
GreenChill Partnership made it easy to select 
this year's recipient of our Distinguished 
Partner Award for a supermarket partner," 
said Witman. "Supervalu excels in corporate-
wide emissions reductions, information 
sharing with other partners, commitment 
to special projects, and last, but not least, 
individual store environmental achievement."

Kysor/Warren, one of the top manufacturers 
of green refrigeration systems for 
supermarkets in the nation, also earned 
GreenChill’s Distinguished Partner award. 

"EPA is proud to recognize Kysor/Warren 
with our Distinguished Partner Award this 
year," said Witman. "Kysor/Warren continues 
GreenChill's tradition of recognizing an 
advanced technology manufacturer for 
outstanding contributions to furthering the 
Partnership's mission to reduce refrigerant 
emissions from supermarkets. Kysor/
Warren's contribution to GreenChill over the 
past year has been of the highest caliber, both 
in terms of quality and level of commitment."

EPA estimates that if supermarkets nationwide 
reduced their emissions to the GreenChill 
average emissions rate, the industry would 
eliminate the equivalent of 22,000,000 
metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equal 
to removing nearly 4,000,000 passenger 
vehicles from the road. This would also help 
restore stratospheric ozone, which protects 
the Earth from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, 
a leading cause of skin cancer.

GreenChill now has a total of 50 partners with 
almost 5,500 stores in 48 states. For additional 
information on EPA’s GreenChill Partnership, 
please visit: www.epa.gov/greenchill.


The award-winning Sprouts Farmers Market has opened a new store at the corner of 
Rosemead and Colorado in Pasadena, the former site of Circuit City.


Arcadia

FREE FLU SEASON/
IMMUNIZATIONS 
PRESENTATION

The Arcadia Senior 
Services Department 
in collaboration with 
Methodist Hospital and 
the Los Angeles County 
Department of Health 
Services will host a free 
health presentation 
on the upcoming flu 
season at the Arcadia 
Community Center on 
Tuesday, September 28, 
2010 from 1:30-3:00pm. 
At this lecture you will 
also be informed about 
current immunizations 
senior citizens need to 
prevent specific illnesses. 
Eileen James, Emergency 
Preparedness Public 
Health Nurse from the L.A. 
County Department of 
Public Health will speak on 
current recommendations 
for adult immunizations 
such as Tdap (Tetanus, 
diphtheria, acellular 
pertussis), Pneumococcal, 
Hepatitis A & B and 
seasonal influenza.

 For need additional 
information call Arcadia 
Senior Services Department 
at 626.574.5130. 

Introduction to 
Nose Work!

Looking for something fun 
to do with your dog? The 
Recreation and Community 
Services Department is 
offering an urban dog sport 
class. Nose Works builds 
confidence, burns excess 
energy and strengthens the 
bond with your dog. Dogs 
have an amazing sense of 
smell and a natural desire 
to hunt. This class focuses 
on teaching you how to 
encourage and develop your 
dog’s natural scenting abilities 
by using their desire to hunt 
and their love of toys, food 
and exercise. This class 
begins Thursday, September 
23rd and is held at the Arcadia 
Community Center, 365 
Campus Drive, Arcadia on 
the back patio. Class times are 
6:00-7:30pm or 7:45-9:15pm. 
Cost is $120 for eight weeks. 
Call 626.574.5113 today for 
more information or go to 
the city’s website at www.
ci.arcadia.ca.us under the 
Recreation and Community 
Services Department!