On Catalina Island, one of L.A.`s unofficial `food deserts´ parties over a humble Vons
(LA Times MLB)

When 22-year-old Blanca Alvarez comes back home to Catalina after four years at Columbia University in New York City, her first planned stop is the island´s new supermarket. All year, family and friends sent the recent graduate photos, texts and videos from the Vons - treating it the way tourists...