{"id":1313365,"date":"2019-08-08T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/city-market-new-castle-responds-to-unfavorable-letter-from-nonprofit\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T03:08:00","slug":"city-market-new-castle-responds-to-unfavorable-letter-from-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/city-market-new-castle-responds-to-unfavorable-letter-from-nonprofit\/","title":{"rendered":"City Market New Castle responds to unfavorable letter from nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People enter and exit the New Castle City Market on Thursday afternoon. The grocery store chain clarified its policies regarding donated produce following a critical letter to the editor earlier this week.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

City Market New Castle has vehemently denied the assertion that it has \u2018quit supporting the community\u2019 following an unfavorable letter from an area nonprofit.<\/p>\n

In that Aug. 6 opinion letter, Nanci Limbach, executive director of the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation penned, \u201cA year ago [City Market New Castle] stopped allowing their produce people to contribute outdated produce to our Wildlife Foundation to feed our numerous animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Limbach, in an interview Thursday, said City Market New Castle stopped donating to the Wildlife Foundation following new store management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still getting [produce] from the other City Markets,\u201d Limbach said, citing how the City Market in Rifle donated several boxes of outdated produce to the Wildlife Foundation just last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the only store that doesn\u2019t give it to us.\u201d Limbach added of the New Castle City Market location.<\/p>\n

Located near the town of Silt, the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation accepts all species of wildlife brought in by public agencies as well as private citizens including federally listed, threatened and endangered wildlife. Limbach founded the nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center in 1984 whose mission has remained to provide professional care to injured and orphaned wildlife.<\/p>\n

In her opinion letter, Limbach went on to say that the City Market in New Castle\u2019s management had also quit helping Lift-Up, Mountain Valley Developmental and several senior food programs; a claim City Market Spokesperson Kelli McGannon said simply was not true.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s still edible but no longer sellable we absolutely need to donate it and we do that in every one of our City Market stores,\u201d McGannon said in an interview Thursday of the donations that go to Food Bank of the Rockies and locally to Lift-Up Garfield.<\/p>\n

According to McGannon, since January 1, City Market\u2019s New Castle location had generated over 8,000 meals through its donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do what we call Zero Hunger Food Rescue at every location,\u201d McGannon explained of the social impact plan that seeks eliminating waste across the Kroger company by 2025. \u201cProduce that is no longer edible can be composted. We do have composting at our New Castle City Market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although not certain whether the Rifle location composted, McGannon\u2019s guess was that it did not and as a result was still able to donate to the Wildlife Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than have this become waste, we allow them to use it for animal feed,\u201d McGannon said of when composting was not available. \u201cWe are committed to helping find a solution to ending hunger in every community. I am disappointed that this letter was written and I am sure the produce was really important to [the Wildlife Foundation] but our first priority has to be to humans, it just does.\u201d<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People enter and exit the New Castle City Market on Thursday afternoon. The grocery store chain clarified its policies regarding donated produce following a critical letter to the editor earlier this week.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent City Market New Castle has vehemently denied the assertion that it has \u2018quit supporting the community\u2019 following an unfavorable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:11:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}