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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! To Hold “Gimme Five” Food Drives to Fight Hunger Across the U.S.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! To Hold “Gimme Five” Food Drives to Fight Hunger Across the U.S.
Donate 5 cans of food and get a ticket to a Ripley’s Odditorium for only $5 from November 6-10
Orlando,
FL,
United States of America
(prbd.net)
07/10/2011
Ripley's Believe It or Not! is launching a campaign to combat hunger in all the cities where it has Believe It or Not! Odditoriums. Ripley’s Gimme Five Food Drive will take place from Sunday, November 6 through Thursday, November 10.
Here’s how it works: guests who bring a donation of five non-perishable food items can get a ticket to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium for just $5 (regular adult ticket prices range from $10.99 to $29.95). All the food collected will go to local food banks in each community.
“We’re in the business of ‘unbelievable’, and the number of families needing help putting food on the table is truly unbelievable,” said Jim Pattison Jr., President of Ripley Entertainment Inc. “That’s why we started this national effort to help food banks across the country.”
One in six Americans is fighting hunger.
Suggested donations include juice, soup, beans, tuna, cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, pasta, tomato sauce and baby food.
Participating Ripley’s Odditoriums include Atlantic City, Branson, Gatlinburg, Grand Prairie (Texas), Jackson Hole, Key West, Myrtle Beach, Newport (Ore.), Niagara Falls Canada, New York City, Ocean City, Orlando, Panama City Beach, San Antonio, San Francisco, St. Augustine, Williamsburg and Wisconsin Dells.
For more information on Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium locations, please visit http://www.ripleys.com/attractions/.
Ripley’s “Gimme Five” promotion may not be combined with any other offers. One discount ticket available for every 5 non-perishable food items donated.
Media contact:
Tim O’Brien
VP Communications
Ripley Entertainment
615-646-7465 – office
615-496-5949 – cell
Obrien@ripleys.com
About Ripley Entertainment
Ripley Entertainment Inc. (www.ripleys.com), keepers of the venerable Ripley’s Believe It or Not! brand, is a global leader in location-based entertainment, entertaining more than 12 million annually at its 80-plus attractions in 11 countries. In addition to its 31 Believe It or Not! Odditoriums, the Orlando, Florida-based company has publishing, licensing and broadcast divisions, best-selling books and the popular syndicated cartoon strip, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, that still runs daily in 42 countries. Ripley Entertainment is a Jim Pattison Company, the third-largest privately held company in Canada.
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