Amazon Fresh is opening Thursday in the new Citrus Crossroads shopping center in Fontana.
It’s the first Fresh store in San Bernardino County.
The grocery concept debuted in 2020 in Woodland Hills and quickly expanded through Southern California. True to Amazon’s online shopping experience, Prime members can scan and pay for their groceries at Fresh stores without any engagement with a cashier.
Shoppers with Prime-enabled credit cards can use Dash Carts, the company’s tech-laden grocery carts that register and tally groceries in a virtual queue as they’re placed inside it. The company’s Amazon One concept, which is also in use at Whole Foods, also allows shoppers to scan their palm instead of swiping a credit card as they check out.
In addition to the usual produce, meat and pantry goods, the Fontana store will sell take-and-bake pizzas, ready-to-heat burritos and meals. Local brands on the shelves will include Caulipower, McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams, and Rockenwagner Bakery.
The retailer noted in a press release that any surplus food from the Amazon Fresh store will go to Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino.
The 40,000-square-foot store at 16188 S. Highland Ave. will be open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The newly opened Citrus Crossroads shopping center also has a Starbucks, FedEx Office, Marco’s Pizza and dental office.
California’s Farm to School Incubator Grant Program last week awarded $4,251,200 to several school- and farm-based projects in the Inland Empire. Much of the money will go toward programs that reach students about locally grown food and how it benefits them. (Kurt Miller, The Press-Enterprise)
Inland Empire school-farm programs getting $4 million
California’s Farm to School Incubator Grant Program last week awarded $3,901,200 to numerous school- and farm-based projects in the Inland Empire.
The 2023-24 program, managed by the state’s Department of Food and Agriculture Office of Farm to Fork, received almost double the number of proposals (499 applications and $129 million in funding requests) from the previous grant cycle.
The grants provide opportunities to expand projects for K-12 school districts, food providers, early care and education centers, agricultural producers and food hubs.
Here’s a look at who’s getting what:
Corona-Norco Unified School District: $747,660
Jurupa Unified School District: $266,355
Riverside Unified School District: $201,701
Menifee Union School District: $200,000
Val Verde Unified School District: $200,000
Palm Springs Unified School District: $237,809
Desert Sands Unified School District: $388,665
Central Elementary School District: $200,000
Rialto Unified School District: $350,000
Chaffey Joint Union High School District: $296,135
Colton Joint Unified School District: $289,215
Upland Unified School District: $200,000
Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District: $200,000
Encore Education Group: $200,000
Ontario-Montclair School District: $273,660
Three farms and one nonprofit church also are receiving grant money to continue programs that either feed or teach children about locally-sourced food.
Aziz Farms is getting $295,937 to add an education center and storage for new equipment and educational materials.
Old Grove Orange is getting $350,000 to increase vegetable production to local schools, plus add to existing farm field trips and replace a diesel-powered pump with a solar-powered array.
Sunago Christian Fellowship Church is also getting $350,000 and will use it to produce more food for local schools and implement tools that “merge technology with hands-on growing” while creating solutions to food deserts in underserved communities.
Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa opened its newest spa at the Magnolia Town Center in Riverside. The spa is the company’s 28th in California. (Photo courtesy of Hand & Stone)
Hand & Stone spa opens in Riverside
Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa opened its newest spa at the Magnolia Town Center in Riverside.
The spa is the company’s 28th in California.
The franchise concept at 6041 Magnolia Ave. offers skincare and spa services including compression therapy massage, microcurrent facial, percussive therapy massage and LED phototherapy facials.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call 951-579-4500 or go to handandstone.com/ca-riverside-magnolia.
Hand & Stone operates 600 spa franchises across 36 states and Canada.
Murrieta’s Big Fogg is keeping fans cool at the U.S. Open in New York. The company installed 18, 30-inch high-pressure misting fans around the tennis concourse. It’s the 15th year they’ve done so, according to Big Fogg. (Photo courtesy of Big Fogg)
Big Fogg rolls out cool relief for US Open fans
Murrieta’s Big Fogg is playing a key role at the U.S. Open in New York.
The company installed 18, 30-inch high-pressure misting fans around the tennis concourse, specifically in the arena’s high traffic areas.
It’s the 15th year Big Fogg has helped cool fans at the tournament, according to Tom Ernst, general manager at Big Fogg.
“With climate change, over the years it’s been getting hotter and hotter and becoming more important to keep people cool at major sporting events like this,” Ernst said. “We are honored to be able to provide our fans and offer refreshing relief from the extreme heat.”
Big Fogg, founded in 1999, makes custom cooling and heating products for a variety of commercial, industrial and sporting event applications. The company was the first to install high-pressure misting fans on NFL & college football sidelines.
Optometry office opens in Riverside
Raincross Optometry opened Sept. 7 in Riverside.
Raincross, at 3297 Arlington Ave, Suite 105, is led by Dr. Ashley Suplee. She graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School and UC Riverside.
For more information, go to raincrossoptometry.com
RCC business/computer building debuts
Pasadena-based C.W. Driver Cos. wrapped up work in late August on a $29.3 million transformation of Riverside Community College’s former Physical & Life Science Buildings.
Built in the 1960s, the former two-building space was combined into the Business, Law and Computer Information Systems Building.
C.W. Driver Cos. demolished the interior in order to remake a 34,055 square-foot building into classrooms, conference rooms, computer labs, testing centers and a multipurpose room.
“This is our second project with the Riverside Community College District in the last couple of years,” said Dave Amundson, project executive at C.W. Driver.
The company previously worked on the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center at Moreno Valley College.
“It’s another example of a repeat client that we work to grow a long-term relationship with us through new projects,” Amundson said.
The latest project took 18 months to complete. The architect was 19six Architect.
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