Sam's Club and Country Trio Edens Edge Team Up With Local Volunteers to Donate Meals to St. Louis Area Foodbank

Sam's Club and Country Trio Edens Edge Team Up With Local Volunteers to Donate Meals to St. Louis Area Foodbank

St. Louis associates accompany Edens Edge to load up food donations collected at local Sam's Club for delivery to the city's food bank

ST. LOUIS, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT: Hot country
newcomers Edens
Edge join
forces with St.
Louis Sam's
Club associates
to raise
awareness of
hunger in the
U.S. and urge
members to
participate in
a Spring Hunger
Event
supporting the
largest
domestic
hunger-relief
charity,
Feeding
America, with
the goal of
securing one
million meals
this spring.
Edens Edge will
team up with
local Sam's
Club volunteers
to load pallets
of food into
trucks and
deliver the
donation to the
St. Louis Area
Foodbank.

WHY: Hunger is an
issue year-
round and can
be especially
critical in the
spring as post-
holiday
volunteer
efforts and
supplies
typically
diminish. While
many believe
that those
affected by
hunger are
confined to
small pockets
of society, in
reality, one in
six Americans
is struggling
with hunger.

WHO: Edens Edge
Sam's Club
associates,
member
volunteers and
food bank
representatives

WHEN: Thursday, March
15, 11:00 a.m.
-2:00 p.m.
Media call time:
12:30 p.m. at
the St. Louis
Area Foodbank*

WHERE: St. Louis Area Foodbank Sam's Club - St. Charles #8251
70 Corporate Woods Drive 2855 S. Service Road
St. Louis, MO 63044 St. Charles, MO 63303
314.292.6262 636.946.7002

* Media are
invited to
schedule
interviews
with Edens
Edge, Sam's
Club, Feeding
America and
food bank
representatives
at the St.
Louis
Area Foodbank
beginning at
1:00 p.m.
Please contact
Marcy Vernier
to arrange an
interview.

HOW TO DONATE: Sam's Club Members have two ways
to participate in reaching the
goal of helping Feeding America
secure one million meals for
local food banks from March 14
to 28 including:

1. By purchasing specially marked
General Mills items at Sam's
Club, members can help Feeding
America secure TEN
MEALS for local food banks once
members visit
www.outnumberhunger.com/
samsclub and enter the code
located
on the packaging by March 1,
2013. For every code entered by
March 1, 2013, General Mills
will donate $1.30 to
Feeding America --enough to
secure 10 meals on behalf of
local food banks up to a maximum
donation of
$130,000.

2. Members can also place non-
perishable food in collection
bins at Sam's Club locations
nationwide.

ABOUT SAM'S CLUB: Sam's Club, a division of Wal-
Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT),
is the nation's eighth largest
retailer and a leading
membership warehouse club
offering superior products and
services to more than 47 million
Members in clubs across the
U.S., as well as in Brazil,
China and Mexico. Members save
an average of 30 percent over
traditional retailers. To learn
more about Savings Made
Simple(R), visit SamsClub.com
and look for Sam's Club on
Twitter, Facebook and our mobile
app.

Sam's Club supports community-
based programs that empower
young people, families and small
businesses to make smart choices
that lead to healthy and bright
futures. In 2010, the Sam's Club
Giving Program made cash and in-
kind contributions of more than
$89 million, which included
donating more than 39 million
meals.

ABOUT FEEDING AMERICA: Feeding America provides low-
income individuals and families
with the fuel to survive and
even thrive. As the nation's
leading domestic hunger-relief
charity, our network members
supply food to more than 37
million Americans each year,
including 14 million children
and 3 million seniors. Serving
the entire United States, more
than 200 member food banks
support 61,000 agencies that
address hunger in all of its
forms. For more information on
how you can fight hunger in your
community and across the
country, visit http://
www.feedingamerica.org. Find us
on Facebook at facebook.com/
FeedingAmerica or follow our
news on Twitter at twitter.com/
FeedingAmerica.

ABOUT EDENS EDGE: Comprised of Hannah Blaylock
(lead vocalist), Dean Berner
(harmony vocals, guitar, dobro)
and Cherrill Green (harmony
vocals, mandolin, banjo and
guitar),Edens Edge possesses a
unique musical blend deeply
rooted in Country music,
acoustic instrumentation and
pure vocal harmonies. Growing up
an hour's drive from each other
in Arkansas, Edens Edge were
introduced by mutual friends in
2004 and began performing
together in a band that included
close friends and family
members. After entering the 2006
NSAI Song Contest, they were
discovered by iconic songwriter
Kye Fleming, who encouraged the
young trio to move to Nashville
together and pursue their
musical career full time. It was
during their 2009 performance at
Fleming's induction ceremony
into the Nashville Songwriters
Hall of Fame where Big Machine
Label Group President & CEO
Scott Borchetta took notice and
quickly signed Edens Edge to Big
Machine Records. Since releasing
their Top 20 debut single,
"Amen," the trio has been
profiled as one of Billboard's
"Artists to Watch in 2011" and
was selected as a CMT LISTEN UP!
Artist. They were also featured
on three major Country tours
last year - Brad Paisley's H2O
II: Wetter and Wilder World
Tour, Reba's All the Women I Am
Tour, and Lady Antebellum's Own
The Night Tour. Edens Edge is
currently in the studio
finishing up their debut album,
set for release in 2012. In
June, they will hit the road
with labelmates Rascal Flatts on
the "The American Band Tour"
Presented by Farmers Insurance.
For more on Edens Edge, visit
edensedge.com.

SOURCE Sam's Club

Sam's Club

CONTACT: Marcy Vernier, marcy.vernier@cohnwolfe.com, +1-310-967-2969; or Brandy Bartholomew, Brandy.bartholomew@mitchcommgroup.com, +1-479-301-3308 (on-site); or Erin Burr, erin.burr@bigmachinemail.com, +1-615-250-6636

Web Site: http://www.samsclub.com

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