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A new chain retailer in the Fox Valley will be holding a hiring event next week. Meijer will be opening its new store in Grand Chute this spring and is looking to fill more than 150 positions. The hiring event will be at Marion College, 720 W. Association Drive, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thursday, March 1. Potential candidates can apply for available positions throughout the day and be interviewed on-site.

In 2017, Meijer’s Simply Give Campaign was able to raise $87,400 for St. Vincent de Paul’s Emergency Food Pantry. According to Feeding America, $1 equals 10 meals so that equates to 874,000 meals provided by the generous Alpena community. The way that the Simply Give campaign works is that customers at Meijer purchase $10 gift cards that go directly to St. Vincent de Paul. Three times a year, the campaign is active for weeks at a time.

A large corporation is helping put food on the table for those right here in the Wabash Valley. Meijer hosts a Simply Give program which donates to our local food pantry. The New Life Fellowship Food Pantry gives 75,000 meals a year to those in our community, all through the help of donations. When someone in the community donates through Meijer's program, Meijer will then double match the donation.

Three northern Michigan food pantries are getting big donations thanks to a Grand Rapids-based company. The Meijer Simply Give program set a record in 2017 with nearly $8.5 million in donations, which is equivalent to at least 84.8 million meals, to our community food pantry partners across the Midwest.

A Vigo County food pantry is receiving $75,200 from the Terre Haute Meijer store because of generosity of holiday shoppers at the end of 2017. New Life Fellowship Compassion Ministries Food Pantry will receive $75,200 in gift cards to purchase food to stock pantry shelves and feed the hungry.

Meijer is seeking candidates in all departments for its new store in Grand Chute, which is expected to open late spring/early summer. The 300 positions available include clerks and cake decorators to customer service, cashiers, receiving and meat cutters. Starting pay will be based on experience level and specific skills.

A record year in 2017 for the Meijer Simply Give program - it donated more than 84 million meals to food pantries, helping families struggling with hunger all across the Midwest.

Meijer has announced the beginning of the hiring process at its news U.P. store. The retailer, based in Grand Rapids, operates 235 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Meijer is currently seeking candidates in all departments for the new store in Marquette which is expected to open late spring/early summer.

For people looking to eat healthier in the new year, protein powder in your meals may be the way to go. Tracy from Meijer is here with some recipes that will incorporate plant protein powders.

Beginning January 22, The Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP) in collaboration with Meijer will offer shoppers free ice skating admission passes to The Rink at Campus Martius Park. In total, 500 passes will be distributed per week at six store locations in Detroit and surrounding suburbs.

Meijer held its fourth annual Very Merry Meijer event across all 235 Meijer stores in the Midwest on Dec. 16. The event consists of each store picking an unsuspecting customer and surprising them when they reach the cashier by paying for their entire shopping cart. Diana Wood of Elburn was the lucky winner at the St. Charles Meijer that December day. Wood just so happened to be shopping for toys and other items to donate to the Lazarus House in St. Charles, which she has been doing for the past several years.