February 6, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joyce Smart, BI-LO Corporate Communications, 864.286.2867
BI-LO CHARITIES AND STANLEY FARMS MAKE DONATION TO PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME
On Wednesday, February 6, BI-LO Charities and Stanley Farms joined the Paul Anderson Youth Home for the dedication of the Gary and Nancy Chartland Academic Center and the Peyton Anderson Counseling Center. During the ceremony, Carol Browning, Executive Director of BI-LO Charities, presented a $10,000 check to the residential home for troubled youth.
The funds given represent an annual commitment from BI-LO Charities and Stanley Farms. For the past five years, Stanley Farms has made a donation based on the sales of Vidalia Onions through BI-LO’s 222 supermarkets. Last year’s donation helped to fund The BI-LO Charities Teachers’ Center in the new Gary and Nancy Chartland Academic Center.
“Our Paul Anderson Youth family deeply appreciates BI-LO Charities’s generosity,” said Glenda Anderson, Paul Anderson Youth Home Co-founder and President. “Their donation has helped to provide an excellent place for our teachers, tutors, and volunteers to meet and work in an environment that is conducive to creating challenges for our young men as they pursue excellence.”
In addition to the donation presented today, BI-LO Charities made a $10,000 donation to the Paul Anderson Youth Home during their “10 Days of Giving” tour last November. “BI-LO Charities is committed to the health and well being of our children,” said Carol Browning. “We are proud to work with vendor partners like Stanley Farms to provide much needed funds for organization such as the Paul Anderson Youth Home.”
“Paul Anderson was such a large part of the Vidalia community,” said Brian Stanley, President of Stanley Farms. “It is an honor to be able to do our part to help these young men who are growing to be such a valuable part of our community.”
Since its inception in 1984, the BI-LO Charity Classic has raised over $40 million for nonprofit organizations in BI-LO's four-state operating area of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. The tournament reached an incredible milestone in 2006, raising a record $5.5 million and expanding its beneficiaries to more than 500 nonprofit organizations dedicated to hunger relief, educational opportunities and the health and well being of children. The 2007 tournament raised more than $5.6 million dollars for charity, another milestone. The tournament's built-in base of support from grocery vendors and other industry suppliers has made it the largest one-day benefit golf tournament in the United States