The hand of Nick Mitchell, owner of Thriftway Market passes a $20 bill to Arlene Dinges, VP of Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens Saturday. The payment represents a donation from a percentage of receits the grocery store took in during the first two weeks of a program Thriftway started to divert proceeds to DBG. Mitchell said for the next 2 or 3 months, the store will donate 1.5% of the total of all receits customers sign and drop in a bucket at the checkout. After that the store will adopt a Rewards Card program that will continue the donations to the Gradens, as Mitchell calls them, “a jewel for Dunsmuir.”