YORK, Pa. -- The Rutter's companies recently donated $120,000 to the YMCA of York and York County, Pa., to provide scholarships for children who have disabilities or are from lower-income families. Rutter's will serve as the major sponsor for a partnership called With Rutter's, All Kids Count! that will serve children ages 3 to 6.
We are privileged to be the recipients of the Rutter's investment to expand this preschool initiative, said Larry Richardson, the YMCA's president and CEO.
Rutter's is proud to continue and expand its [image-nocss] ongoing relationship with the YMCA, said Scott Hartman, president and CEO of Rutter's Farm Stores. The ability to give these children with disabilities and others a head start on their education and life skills is very rewarding, and we're honored to help expand the reach of the YMCA's preschool program.
Hartman also noted that he was very moved with the heart-felt story and video that Michael Sherlock of Wawa presented about his son, Quinn, at the CSP Outlook Conference in September.
After the conference when I returned to the office, we had numerous financial requests for grant monies waiting, Hartman said. The YMCA request just matched up and resonated so well relative to Quinn's story of the benefit of his getting early educational support as a challenged child, that funding this request from the YMCA was just a no-brainer for us. It is so pleasing that our funding will provide four years of continual support for some great children to get a head start they need and deserve. I give tremendous credit to CSP, Coca-Cola and Michael for bringing Quinn's story to the public so that others might also be motivated to help such rewarding causes.
Meanwhile, Rutter's Farm Stores has reopened a convenience store in Abbottstown, Adams County, Pa. The store, which originally opened in 1990, was closed most of the past month for remodeling, reopening October 26.
Outside, Rutter's expanded the number of fueling positions from four to 10, with diesel available at four positions. Inside, Rutter's gave the store its first seating area and added a second public restroom.
The store, which is managed by Laurie Runk, is open 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Rutter's has begun site work at two new locations that are scheduled to open in late spring 2008 in Springettsbury Township and York Township, Pa.
Family-owned and third generation-managed, York, Pa.-based Rutter's operates 51 convenience stores in York, Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania, as well as Rutter's Dairy, serving Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, and M&G Realty, a real-estate holding company.
[Photo: Joined by children from the YMCA branch in Dover are, back row from left: Laura Hershberger, preschool teacher); Todd Rutter, president, Rutter's Dairy; Tim Rutter, president, M&G Realty; Larry M. Richardson, president and CEO, YMCA of York and York County; Amy Embich, Rutter's store manager in Dover; Patricia Rundle, preschool director; and Scott Hartman, president and CEO, Rutter's Farm Stores.]
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