Ralphs Employees Gather Change for Loma Linda's Sick Children

Article courtesy Herbert Atienza, spokesman for the Loma Linda University Medical Center.

Employees from Ralphs grocer visited Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital on Jan. 23, to drop off boxes of toys, as well as present a check for $4,480 that was collected from recent employee fundraising and toy collection drives to benefit the kids at the hospital.

Ralphs will soon be kick off a new program to let customers and associates support their local children’s hospital by donating their spare change in collection canisters located at the check stands of their neighborhood Ralphs supermarket.

The Children’s Hospital fundraising campaign will run from Feb. 3 through May 25, with all the campaign proceeds from stores in the Riverside/Ontario/San Bernardino region benefiting Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital.