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When Ray Charley blew the whistle for the start, Sheryl Brown of Elliott Company took off with her shopping cart to gather as many grocery items as possible for families residing at the Welcome Home Shelter in Greensburg. In this season of Thanksgiving, this event is a celebration of our nation’s abundance and our community’s commitment to help others in need. Thanks to the sponsorship of United Way’s Step-Up Grocery Spree Incentive by Ray Charley and the Charley family who own the Greensburg and Route 66 Shop’n Save Supermarkets, children and families of the shelter will have great meals this Thanksgiving.
Lyndsay Burrik of Welcome Home Shelter, beneficiary of the shopping spree,
gives Sheryl Brown some pointers on how to race through Shop'n Save store.
United Way of Westmoreland County offers this incentive to highlight the need for food by thousands of families in our area. With over 15,000 individuals utilizing the resources of pantries throughout the county annually, hunger is a real issue here. Many working families need food due to loss of a job, challenges from major medical issues or rising costs of basic needs such as housing, heat, transportation and/or medicine.
Fortunately for Sheryl, as a longtime donor to United Way, she knows her gift does help those in need. As a Step-Up winner for United Way of Westmoreland County, she contributed one new dollar per week to enter the drawing for the Shop’n Save Shopping Spree. More than 1,300 individuals qualified for this incentive, which grew by 20% this year.
Ray Charley and his son, Mike, present a $250 gift certificate to Sheryl Brown, the 2009
United Way Shopping Spree winner. Sheryl's 3-minute run garnered $258 of groceries for
Welcome Home Shelter.
At the end of Sheryl’s run, Lyndsay Burrik of Welcome Home received two shopping carts filled with meats, assorted breakfast cereals, paper products and vegetables. As a winner, Sheryl knows not only that she is helping families through her grocery run, but also she will be shopping for her own family this Thanksgiving with a $250 gift certificate for Shop’n Save merchandise, courtesy of the Charley family.
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