Women at one local gym donate four tons of food
New Mexico Business Weekly reported Tuesday that the Los Ranchos de Albuquerque location of Curves gym recently donated 9,300 pounds of food to Roadrunner Food Bank and other charitable organizations. Curves is a franchise circuit-training exercise club for women; the club offered membership and dues discounts to customers who brought in a certain amount of nonperishable food. And they obliged. To put this in perspective, Albuquerque-based Presbyterian Health Care Services claims on its Web site that Presbyterian employees (according to the site, there are 9,500 of them) have donated more than 250,000 pounds of food since 2000. That works out to an average of 31,250 pounds per year — just three times the amount given by the Los Ranchos women.
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Posted 04/20/2008 21:02 with
Interesting. One sees how personal action can add up. Perhaps people in the larger environment demonstrate that the less personal aspect lets them get away with more mediocrity while the Curves women have the obligation, not only from the membership deal, but from a stronger sense of duty in the closer community.