Philadelphia Phillies Pitcher, Jamie Moyer and Kalas family members will join Wawa executives including Wawa president and CEO Howard Stoeckel, chief marketing officer Carol Jensen and other company associates for this festive, baseball-themed picnic in Kalas's honor. During [image-nocss] the celebration, Wawa will present a $15,000 check to Jamie Moyer and Kalas family member, Julie Vanwey, to be donated to the Moyer Foundation's Camp Erin, a charity designated by the Kalas family.
Baseball-themed event supplies include hot dogs, Cracker Jacks, apple pie, inflatable batting cages, available picnic tables and music. Wawa associates will sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
Camp Erin, created and funded by The Moyer Foundation, is a nationwide network of bereavement camps for children and teens ages 6-17 who have experienced the death of someone close to them.
In June 2009, Wawa began exclusively selling a book honoring the life of Kalas, entitled Remembering Harry Kalas: Wonderful Stories from Friends Celebrating a Great Llife. (Click here for previous CSP Daily News coverage.)
This was the first commemorative, hardback book Wawa ever sold in stores in the company's history. To honor Kalas's memory, Wawa donated $10,000 from the proceeds of the sale of the book to Camp Erin and made an additional donation of $5,000 to the Moyer Foundation to use in conjunction with Camp Erin.
"Wawa is thrilled to now present a check for $15,000 to benefit Camp Erin and pay tribute to Kalas, a man who everyone at Wawa not only all admired and adored, but who was a loyal customer and friend to Wawa for many years," the company said.
Wawa, a privately held company headquartered in Wawa, Pa., operates more than 560 stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
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