MOORESTOWN, N.J. -- Kingsway Learning Center's Secondary Program hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, officially opening an in-school training facility provided by Heritage's Dairy Stores.
The facility provides multiply disabled students in the Career Exploration Program with hands-on training in a convenience store setting. The store includes a soft drink fountain, coffee station and hot dog grill, as well as a variety of snacks and sundries. Students learn to greet and work with customers, stock and maintain shelves, operate cooking equipment [image-nocss] and serve as cashiers.
The event will also recognize area businesses and organizations that have participated in the schools community-based instruction program, which places students in a variety of experience-rich, unpaid work environments.
Thorofare, N.J.-based Heritage's Dairy Stores is a family-owned business, now operated by the grandchildren of its founder, Harold H. Heritage. The chain has 37 locations in five New Jersey counties: two in Salem, one in Atlantic, one in Cumberland, six in Camden and 27 in Gloucester.
Founded in 1966, Kingsway Learning Center, Moorestown, N.J., is a nonprofit, nonsectarian special education school serving 300 children each year with multiple disabilities from Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer Counties in New Jersey and in Philadelphia.
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