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5% of Your Bill at Whole Foods on Thursday Goes to Star Inc to Help Adults with Disabilities

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Star, Inc. Lighting the Way announced that it will receive 5% of net sales from six Whole Foods Market locations in Fairfield County on Thursday, Oct. 17 as part of the company’s annual Community Giving Days. Funds raised will help support a series of instructional classes and activities to promote healthy eating and lifestyle, food preparation, cooking and nutritional classes for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Fairfield County served by Star. The October Community Giving Day initiative is Food and Wellness, focusing on organizations, partnerships, projects and events that leverage food as a preventative, nourishing and restorative health and wellness resource. More than 500 Whole Foods Market locations will participate in the Community Giving Day by donating to organizations, projects and programs that support the mission of strengthening communities through food.

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Darien Farmers Market opens 2019

Darien Farmers Market Gets Town’s OK to Move to Whole Foods, If the Vendors Want That

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Whole Foods supermarket management has decided it would welcome Darien Farmers Market if the vendors want to move there, and town officials will allow it. The CEO of the company that owns Goodwives Shopping Center, however, says his company would like to see the Farmers Market stay there. On Monday, the Darien Planning & Zoning Commission heard a request for a permit to allow the Farmers Market to move to the part of Whole Foods parking lot that’s closer to the Post Road. The commission granted approval in a unanimous vote. Commissioners said the new location didn’t seem likely to harm anyone — neighbors shouldn’t be affected, there seemed to be enough parking and the move wouldn’t take place unless Whole Foods and the vendors thought it was to their advantage.