The bus was built 15 years ago as part of an agreement with from Yoko Ono , and has traveled across the U.S. and Canada offering free workshop and tours at schools, stores and music festivals.
People bought houses where land was cheaper, stores and schools newer.
The proposed wall will now slice through several of these suburban districts, separating children from their schools, shopkeepers from their stores and family members from each other.
Plus, he says, they have an education program for stores, physicians and schools.
Schools have already been closed, and the grocery stores are beginning to run low on staples such as bourbon, chips and non-perishable dips.
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The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
Schaefer said electronics and appliance stores stand to benefit as students replace smart phones and calculators, and as more schools allow or even encourage students to bring laptop computers to the classroom.
Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.
It also has initiatives promoting farmers' markets, having schools buy their foods locally, feeding low-income children nutritional foods during the summer, and encouraging grocery stores to operate in so-called "food deserts" that have little or no access to supermarkets that sell fresh and affordable foods, Vilsack said.
Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, at scout meetings, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.
The need to study at cram schools in the evening, the tendency for students to unwind at 24-hour convenience stores on their way home and the lure of computer games at home means the trend is likely to worsen.
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