Shopping & Services

Have a donut on Valentine's Day... it's free

Submitted by kkinley, Neighborhood Reporter

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013, 10:55am

Have a donut on Valentine's Day... it's free

(FOX19) - Every Busken Bakery, Remke-Biggs, and Cincinnati/Dayton United Dairy Farmers will be giving away one free Lite Hearted Donu on Valentine's Day to every customer while supplies last.

The Lite-Hearted Donu is a heart-shaped glazed donut targeted to calorie-counting consumers. Each donut contains just 140 calories, 2.5 grams of fat, and zero trans fat and zero saturated fat.

“This year we're giving our hearts to the Queen City,” commented Busken Bakery president, Dan Busken. “As it turns out, our hearts are sweet, low calorie, and romantically guilt-free.”

This will be the largest giveaway in the company’s history, as the combined forces of over 150 stores hands out thousands of free donuts to customers around the city.

The Lite-Hearted Donut™ will be available at all 10 Busken Bakery locations, 135 United Dairy Farmers, and 13 Remke-Bigg’s.

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International Fair Trade Expo at county fairgrounds

Submitted by kkinley, Neighborhood Reporter

Thursday, November 29th, 2012, 3:32pm

International Fair Trade Expo at county fairgrounds

LAWRENCEBURG, IN (FOX19) - An international art fair will showcase fair trade products from around the globe Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1 at the Dearborn County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceburg.

Shop for unique items including jewelry, purses and handbags, native handcrafts, scarves and accessories, decorative items, coffee and more. The products are created by artisans who are based in Central and Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America.

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Meijer expanding hunger rescue program to include Indiana food banks

Submitted by kkinley, Neighborhood Reporter

Friday, October 19th, 2012, 2:05pm

Meijer expanding hunger rescue program to include Indiana food banks

IN (FOX19) - A relief effort started by Meijer to combat hunger in Ohio is expanding to include eight additional food banks across the Midwest, including three foodbanks in Indiana.

We are very excited to begin this partnership with Freestore Foodbank, because it’s another way to get good food into hungry hands,” said Adrian Lewis, store director of the Cincinnati Meijer on Marburg Avenue in Oakley. “Not only are we helping with hunger relief, our program provides healthy choices to a greater number of people who rely on food banks for their meals.”

The Meijer food rescue program helps increase the total tonnage of food delivered to local food banks while utilizing quality food that would otherwise go to waste. Nearly 700,000 pounds of food, which accounts for more than 527,700 meals, was donated by Meijer in 2011 to local food banks.

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Brookville farm providing fresh produce for Mt. Lookout Farmers' Market

Submitted by kkinley, Neighborhood Reporter

Friday, September 21st, 2012, 5:38pm

Brookville farm providing fresh produce for Mt. Lookout Farmers' Market

MOUNT LOOKOUT, OH (FOX19) - Shop at the Mt. Lookout Farmers' Market on Saturday, September 22 from 10:00am to 1:00pm for fresh early fall produce.

This weekend, produce vendor Prairie Wind Farm, will be bringing a lot of new produce in addition to what they have brought the last few weeks. They will be bringing: seven different types of apples, sweet white corn, gourds, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, sugar pie pumpkins, rhubarb, kohlrabi and more.

Prairie Wind Farms is a family owned and operated farm located in Brookville, Indiana. The Mt. Lookout Farmers Market has just weeks before the end of the season and they need your support.

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Indiana grocery prices rise slightly, but it’s enough for a new record.

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012, 9:00am

Indiana grocery prices rise slightly, but it’s enough for a new record.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (FOX19) - Grocery prices rose only slightly during the first quarter of 2012, according Indiana Farm Bureau’s survey, but that increase was enough to set a new record high for food prices on the survey.

Indiana Farm Bureau’s latest “market basket” survey, an informal compilation of grocery prices, shows that the 16 food items on the survey cost an average of $51.15, up $1.55 from the fourth-quarter 2011 survey. The previous record was $50.70, set in the third quarter of 2008. Of the 16 items surveyed, six decreased in price and 10 increased.

The IFB survey is part of a nationwide survey compiled by the American Farm Bureau Federation from data supplied by state Farm Bureaus. AFBF, the nation’s largest general farm organization, has been conducting the informal quarterly market basket survey of retail food price trends since 1989.

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Food prices fell in Indiana in 4th quarter

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter

Monday, January 30th, 2012, 6:30am

Food prices fell in Indiana in 4th quarter

INDIANAPOLIS (FOX19) - Grocery store prices declined slightly during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a quarterly survey from Farm Bureau.

Indiana Farm Bureau’s latest “market basket” survey, an informal survey of grocery prices released every quarter, shows that the 16 food items on the survey cost an average of $49.60 cents, down 73 cents from the 3rd quarter survey.

Of the 16 items on the survey, 11 decreased in price.

The IFB survey is part of a nationwide survey compiled by the American Farm Bureau Federation from data supplied by state Farm Bureaus. The national survey reported an even larger decrease: The total cost of 16 food items was $49.23, down $3.89 or about 7 percent compared to the third quarter of 2011

This is the first decrease the survey has shown since the 2nd quarter of 2010, when the total was $43.81.

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Indiana makes sales tax deal with Amazon

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter

Monday, January 9th, 2012, 9:34pm

Indiana makes sales tax deal with Amazon

INDIANAPOLIS (FOX19) - Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced Monday that the state has reached an agreement with Indiana’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com, Inc., to begin collecting Indiana sales tax on internet purchases.

Indiana will become the fourth state to reach such an agreement with Amazon, but the governor said he will continue to push for federal action to fairly address the issue.

“The only complete answer to this problem is a federal solution that treats all retailers and all states the same. But for now, Amazon has helped us address the largest single piece of the shortfall, and we appreciate the company working with us to find a solution,” said Daniels.

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