It would make any Safeway customer do a double take — Canadian pop sensation Avril Lavigne, with her trademark black eye makeup, stick-straight blonde hair and diminutive frame, right there in the store, perched on a stool in front of the strawberry display.
She descended on the Bernal Avenue Safeway Tuesday afternoon, along with handfuls of squealy girl fans, to support Safeway's "Support for People with Disabilities" fundraising campaign, which has raised upwards of $130 million over 26 years for charities like Easter Seals, Special Olympics and other organizations that help people with disabilities live fuller, more independent lives.
Her appearance was supposed to be a secret — Safeway had guarded the information with press embargoes and the like. But word leaked out (thanks in part to an accidental 'oops' by Patch on Monday), though the crowd wasn't nearly what it would have been if Avril's coming had been promoted the way most celebrity cameos are.
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