MIdmer-Losh organ at Boardwalk Hall is the world’s largest musical instrument.
VENTNOR – Residents and visitors can reduce single-use plastic in the environment and give back to a local non-profit, all while running routine weekly errands at the Acme market on Wellington Avenue in Ventnor Heights.
The Historic Organ Restoration Committee, Inc., which is working to restore and preserve two pipe organs at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, has been selected for the market’s “Give Back Where It Counts” during the month of July.
The Acme Give Back Where It Counts program is an easy way for shoppers to give back to the local community and the environment as part of their regular shopping routine. Every $3 reusable Give Back Where It Counts bag will provide a $1 donation the organ restoration committee.
As part of this ongoing program, every month at every Acme location, a different local nonprofit is selected to benefit from the sale of the reusable Give Back Where It Counts bags.
“It’s more important than ever to help reduce single-use plastic in the environment,” said Scott Banks, Membership and Events Coordinator at the Historic Organ Restoration Committee. “Nonprofits at the local level, like us, are in need of community support. This program offers the perfect solution to helping local nonprofits and helping the environment at the same time.”
The Historic Organ Restoration Committee is a state chartered nonprofit that is restoring the world’s largest musical instrument – the Midmer-Losh organ with its 33,112 pipes and the smaller W.W. Kimball organ in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall. The committee also provides education and awareness of these instruments as national treasures.
For more information about the Historic Organ Restoration Committee, see boardwalkorgans.org.
For more information about the Acme Give Back Where It Counts program, see acme.bags4mycause.com.
