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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Spartan Stores here will break ground tomorrow morning for the 25th Family Fare supermarket, at a site that had been the Allendale Christian School in Allendale, Mich., as the school prepares to relocate to a plot directly behind the store. The 49,000-square-foot prototype full-service supermarket and grade school were both made possible by the cooperation Spartan and school officials, township planners, and developers.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The reshuffling of the executive deck at Nash Finch Co. here continues, with the latest additions of Gary Spinazze as v.p./vendor relations, and Tom Strzelczyk as new v.p./food distribution, Great Lakes region.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Robert B. Dimond has left Wild Oats to rejoin Nash Finch Co. here as c.f.o./e.v.p./treasurer, effective January 2, 2007.

MINNEAPOLIS - The Nash Finch Co. based here has joined First Book, an international nonprofit organization providing new books to children from low-income families, in an event at the Minnesota Children's Museum to celebrate the launch of a new partnership benefiting needy children.

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. based here negotiated with lenders to change its existing senior secured credit facility. In doing so, the distributor and retailer will pay a related one-time fee of about $550,000.

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