Peanut Allergy Safe at Ballgames!
I am so proud our local food allergy support group, Gateway FEAST! The whole team really pitched in to make a splash, first partnering with the St. Louis Cardinals designate a Peanut Safe section at the June 21st home game against the Milwaukee Brewers.Here are the details:
Tickets: $27/each
call Cardinal Box Office: (314) 345-9500, request the “peanut safe” Section 328
If you live in the area and peanut allergy affects you or someone you know, please forward this information to them. It'll be a great time at the ballgame!
The St. Louis Cardinals are the 3rd Major League Baseball team to introduce a peanut-safe section. An official for team told the Post-Dispatch that if the experiment is successful, they will consider adding peanut-free sections at more games. The River City Rascals, a minor league team also has a regular peanut-safe section at their Wednesday night games.
Last week, a media frenzy ensued with the release of the story. It made the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was covered in The Kansas City Star, KTRS AM Radio (I've uploaded the MP2 below), FOX 2 News (local and national), Channel 5 News as well as the Talk of the Day Blog and Sports by Brooks.
Thank you to the Cardinals and Rascals, who are willing to go the extra mile!
Congratulations and all sorts of kudos to Carol, Laura and Anne and the rest of the crew who willingly engaged with the media to support awareness and accommodations for food allergies at public events. Even if you are not in the St. Louis area but living with food allergies, I'd strongly suggest that you join this great, proactive group.
They are active online so anyone can benefit from the information that is shared, regardless of where you are in the world! You can find them here on Yahoo.
CAROL%20DEPKE.mp3
Labels: peanut allergies, peanut allergy and baseball, peanut allergy and St. Louis Cardinals
posted by Ria at 2:45 PM
4 Comments:
What are they doing to make it a peanut free section?
Peanuts will not be sold or allowed in the section and it will be especially cleaned before the game so that it is free of peanut dust.
The Cardinals said they will post additional ushers and possibly a paramedic in the designated section at Busch Stadium.
Cool huh?
Wow, this is awesome, I have spoken with the pr guy from out local major league team and they just for some reason do not think this is possible. I will send him a link to this. I am a the president of our local support group called FWFA (Families with Food Allergies). Maybe if I keep bugging him, like they say, "The squeaky wheel always gets the grease"!
I think it did take some repeated approaches before the Cardinals felt like this was something worth pursuing so just keep at it!
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