Tom Thumb was a proud partner in this year’s Rebuilding Together project which took place on Saturday, April 28 in Dallas, and included multiple houses on the same street! Tom Thumb volunteers worked on two neighboring houses painting, planting, cleaning, and even digging a drainage ditch and assembling a kids’ picnic table! The work was labor intensive but very rewarding!

Rebuilding Together is the nation’s largest volunteer home repair organization and is the recipient of funds from our in-store People with Disabilities Campaign. A BIG thank you to Lori Corley (SD, #3658) Tom Thumb’s House Captain, as well as Brian Bausch (DM, D2) for rallying volunteers from his district. Several Dallas public officials were on hand including Mayor Rawlings and City Councilwoman Carolyn Davis.

On Saturday morning, April 21, Randalls took part in the first ever Easter Seals Walk with Me 5k walk at the Houston Zoo! We had a great team of walkers and a booth that was a huge hit! The Randalls booth featured a cupcake walk for all the kiddos at the event (and some grown-ups too!). Easter Seals is a beneficiary of Randalls in-store fundraising campaign, People with Disabilities.

In early February 2012, The Circle Ten Council Boy Scouts of America kicked off its 24th annual Scouting for Food Drive sponsored by Tom Thumb. Since its inception in 1988, Tom Thumb has generously sponsored the event and donates the bright yellow bags the Scouts use to garner collections in neighborhoods across North Texas. On Saturday, February 18, #3608 served as drive through/ drop-off location for food donations, and had Boy Scouts present to take customer’s food donations from their cars. The Scouting for Food Drive was also featured on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas show.

Tarrant Area Food Bank's Empty Bowls event Presented by Tom Thumb took place at Will Rogers Coliseum on February 9. As always, Tom Thumb had a great team of volunteers at the event and almost 2,000 attendees received a hand crafted bowl and a Tom Thumb Ingredients for Life reusable bag.

The Tom Thumb presentation and sampling event was headed up by Deli Food Merchandiser Marti Reed and included her remarkable team of Gil Browning, Detrick Propes, and Hortencia De Baez. Store Directors Irene Munoz and Kelvin Hogg also joined the festivities.

On February 11, Tom Thumb sponsored the MDA Muscle Walk held at Cowboy Stadium and Tom was on hand to cheer on all the walkers! The MDA Muscle Walk is a series of local walk events across the country held to pay tribute to and raise funds for children and adults served by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The walks are family-oriented gatherings and light exercise for everyone — children, adults, grandparents, students, corporate teams and more. The MDA Muscle Walk is the largest walk event funding research and services for people with any of more than 40 muscle-damaging diseases.

The Houston Chapter of MDA held their annual Muscle Walk this past Saturday at The Galleria. Randalls provides apples and bananas for all the participants. Despite the stormy weather, the turnout was incredible!

On November 3rd, store #1789 hosted an American hero and a NASCAR Legend and kicked off our Wounded Warrior Project Campaign. NASCAR driver Bobby Labonte, #47 Car, and Wounded Warrior Tim Seckel were at the Trophy Club Tom Thumb. Fans took photos with Bobby and thanked Tim for serving, and KSCS radio raffled NASCAR tickets for excited fans.

Seckel, a native Texan, enlisted in the Army in October 2005 and was deployed to Iraq in March 2007. He sustained serious injuries to his neck and back during a firefight in August of that year.

The Rose, a nonprofit breast cancer organization that provides mammograms to those most in need, is the benefactor of our in-store Breast Cancer Campaign. (See attached news article for more information)

On Saturday, October 15, The Dallas Morning News reported, the Dallas Komen Race for the Cure event attracted more than 30,000 people. The run has raised more than $2 million and, since Komen’s founding in 1982, $685 million has been contributed to breast cancer research and $1.3 billion to community programs that help with mammograms, transportation and other needs.

Randalls is so proud to be a founding sponsor of Tour de Pink – Pink Ribbons Project’s annual bike ride in September. Randalls provides refreshments for the riders at the start/finish line and all of the pink pit stops, as well as in-store promotional support! Randalls is so proud to support Pink Ribbons’ efforts in raising awareness of breast cancer, and serving those in financial need that are battling the disease. Leslie Nelson, Randalls CFO and breast cancer survivor, was proud to accept the award on behalf of our company. Pink at the Brown showcased several Houston arts organizations including the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. And to top it off – President George H.W. Bush and Barbara were in attendance as well!

Randalls has been a top sponsor of Tour de Pink benefiting Pink Ribbons Project since its inception. Randalls provides refreshments for riders at our booth as well as the "Pink Pit Stops" along the ride route. We also had some Remarkable Randalls Riders who took to the course, some riding up to 47 miles! Pink Ribbons Project uses the arts to help save lives and improve the quality of life for those touched by breast cancer.

Tom Thumb representatives attended a special event showcasing Methodist Health System, the community grant recipient of The Dallas County Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen. Methodist kicked off their new Mobile Mammography Unit today and remarks were heard from both U.S. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and Texas State Senator Royce West on the impact of breast cancer in Dallas County. Tom Thumb is the Local Presenting Sponsor of the Dallas Komen Race for the Cure taking place this Saturday, Oct. 15 at NorthPark Center.

Randalls was proud to be part of the very uplifting 2011 Komen Race for the Cure Houston. The Houston Race is one of the biggest in the country with over 32,000 participants! Randalls is the Teams Programs sponsor, and we were so excited to once again hand out our reusable Breast Cancer shopping bags to the team captains as a thank you for putting together a race team. In addition to our wonderful volunteers at the Randalls booth, which included Debra Stump (space planning); Ilsia Ventura (3070) and Laura Myerscough (the youngest of the Myerscough girls J) – we also had a race team which included: Darryl Savannah (space planning) and his wife Andrea; Roy Torenfiel (ASD, #1021); Teresa Bell (human resources); Priscilla Myerscough (human resources); Michelle Maya (human resources); Maria Paterra (loss prevention). As part of our sponsorship, Leslie Nelson (Randalls CFO/VP, finance and breast cancer survivor) had the privilege to be up on stage to help hand out the race team awards with Mix 96.5 DJ Ayana Mack.

The Komen North Texas Race for the Cure took place in Plano, TX. Over 13,000 people attended the event. The North Texas Affiliate was founded in 1991 and since that time has invested more than $8 million to local organizations providing breast health education, screening and treatment. This year the North Texas Affiliate provided $800,000 to eight local organizations serving Collin, Denton and Grayson counties.