Grocery shopping for the sake of preservation

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Here’s a quick tidbit to help in the city’s preservation efforts: If you shop at Ralphs or Food 4 Less, you can set up your Rewards Card so that a portion of what you spend is donated to the Los Angeles Conservancy through the stores’ Community Contribution program. The conservancy, the city’s largest group for preserving and protecting cultural and historic monuments, has been receiving about a $1,000 a year from the program. Depending on how much you spend, the conservancy will receive 1% to 4% of your ‘elegible purchases.’ For instructions on how to update or sign up for a Rewards Card, click here.

Pictured above: In 2007, the Ralphs in downtown L.A. was the first major supermarket to open in the neighborhood in 50 years. The chain started in 1873 at the corner of 6th and Spring streets, just blocks from the new store. -- Barbara Thornburg