A BENICIA MAIN STREET CONTEST marking Antiques, Vintage and Collectibles Month is asking, “Where’s Jack London?”

Participating businesses are displaying framed pictures of London, author of such classics as “Call of the Wild” and “White Fang,” and each has a key word on the back of its frame.

Those playing can email key words and businesses where they are found to Main Street at info@beniciamainstreet.org. Each email is an entry into a drawing for prizes. People who buy merchandise at the stores and show Main Street the receipt will have their entries doubled.

Participating businesses are A Jewel in the Sky, 919 First St.; Adobe Second Chance Thrift Shop, 929 First St.; Alvord’s Treasure Chest, 129 First St.; Benicia Antique Mall, 918 First St.; Blue Goose Antiques, 622 First St.; Charlie’s Attic, 632 First St.; Elisa’s Closet, 623 First St.; Fabulous Finds, 129 First St.; Golden Horse Shoe Antique, 415 First St.; Honeysuckle Rose, 620 First St.; Mimi and Company, 129-A First St.; Mosaic Market, 129-D First St.; The Foggiest Idea, 800-C First St.; The Steffen Collection, 627 First St.; Timeless Memories, 129 First St.; and What’s On First Antiques, 433 First St.

Raley’s converting to ‘green’ food safety program

Raley’s, which operates a supermarket at 890 Southampton Road, is introducing a new, environmentally friendly food safety program called Ecolab, Megan Burritt, the company’s director of wellness and sustainability, said.

The Northern California supermarket chain is the first retailer in North America to use the entire Ecolab program, she said. It focuses on simplifying food safety processes to ensure proper cleaning and delivering operational savings through the use of less labor, water, energy and waste.

Burritt said the program is expected to save about 4 million gallons of water, lower energy consumption by 7.5 million kilowatt hours and reduce shipping by 100 tons and labor by more than 23,000 hours a year. The company began the program late in 2014 and expects it to be operating in all stores by April.

Burritt described Ecolab as “just one of the ways our company is leveraging innovation to help us reduce our overall environmental impact. New solutions like Whiteout and LmENTARY specifically help us achieve significant water and energy savings, and using SolidSense in our sinks translates into meaningful shipping and waste reductions.”

Toni Hofer, Raley’s senior manager of food safety, quality assurance and retail compliance, added: “Ensuring that we provide our customers the cleanest and safest shopping experience possible is critical to what we do at Raley’s.

“Ecolab’s new program helps make cleaning easier and faster for our team members, which not only translates into saving on labor and utilities but also ensures we have as much time as possible throughout the day to focus on what’s most important, serving our customers in the safest way possible.”

Raley’s has 118 stores in Northern California and Nevada under four banners: Raley’s Supermarkets, Bel Air Markets, Nob Hill Foods and Food Source. It was was founded in 1935 by Tom Raley. Those interested may visit the company website, www.raleys.com. Ecolab provides water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to food, health care, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries. Its website is http://ecolab.com/.

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom open for spring break

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, 1001 Fairgrounds Drive, Vallejo, is opening for spring break starting Saturday. The park will operate daily through April 12. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. except April 12, when the park will close at 7 p.m.

In addition, special spring break events are planned, including a Spring Break Block Party, an interactive daily dance party with music, games and Looney Tunes characters that takes place in the main plaza.

Spring break visitors also will be first to see the theme park’s new Wacky Waterworks Sea Lion Show in the renovated Sea Lion Stadium. They also can see Apollo, a baby male bottlenose dolphin calf who can be seen with his mother, Yoshe, through the viewing windows of Dolphin Harbor.

The spring break season pass, valid through April 12, gives purchasers unlimited admission to the park, free parking when four or more season passes or memberships are bought, as well as other discounts, including select days during which pass holders can bring a friend for free.

Those interested may visit the theme park’s website, sixflags.com/discoverykingdom.

The Benicia Herald’s weekly Benicia Business Beat column is an opportunity for local businesses and companies to tell our readers about business-oriented news, such as moves, grand openings, awards, promotion of employees, staff changes and changes in goods and services.

Submissions will be edited for length and content; and need to answer the questions who, what, when, where, why and how, preferably in the body of an email; and provide contact information.

Deadline is 3 p.m. Friday for news items that will appear in the next Tuesday edition’s Benicia Business Beat. Please email news releases and accompanying high-resolution photographs and logos to beniciaherald@gmail.com, and put “Attn. Business Beat” in the subject line, as well as the name of the business.

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