Category: Community involvement

  • Royer’s food drive back for fifth year, June 20-27

    Royer’s Stems Hunger, our annual food drive, will return June 20-27 to benefit the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the Greater Berks Food Bank. Customers who donate a non-perishable food item during the event will receive a free carnation, up to six flowers per family per visit. The food drive will be the theme of…

  • Royer’s Kids Club spring reading list

    Every November, Royer’s holds a weeklong children’s-book drive to benefit area public libraries. To encourage the reading habit, we include a reading list in each quarterly issue of our Royer’s Kids Club newsletter, Buds. Many baby animals arrive in spring, which is the focus of our latest reading list, courtesy of Heather Smith, youth services…

  • Photos from another egg-cellent kids club event

    Things really got hopping at our March 14 Royer’s Kids Club event, as evidenced by these photos from our West York store. We had a great turnout as the kids made carnation Easter bunnies. We certainly had a terrific time, and we look forward to more fun down the bunny trail as we have three…

  • Put our free March 14 kids club event in your Easter basket

    Easter fun is just a hop, skip and jump away for Royer’s Kids Club participants. On March 14, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to create a carnation bunny, complete with greens, an egg-and-ribbon stick-in, and pipe cleaners (for ears). Participants also will receive a balloon. Time slots are available at 10…

  • Thanks for coming; we’ll see you at the next kids club event on March 14

    Thanks to everyone who joined us on Jan. 17 as we kicked off the 2015 Royer’s Kids Club schedule. The first event comes at a particularly good time, bringing color back into our lives in the middle of winter. Spring and warmer temperatures aren’t that far away after all! We look forward to seeing you…

  • Royer’s Kids Club announces 2015 event schedule

    Another new year of fun, free Royer’s Kids Club events is upon us. The kids club is open to children ages 5 to 12, with the events held in each of our stores, usually at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. The 2015 schedule Jan. 17: There are many more weeks of winter to come,…

  • Jan. 17 kids club event kicks off 2015 schedule

    There are many more weeks of winter to come, but we’re turning our attention to spring with the first Royer’s Kids Club event of 2015. On Jan. 17, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a vase arrangement featuring carnations and daisies, similar to the ones above. Participants in this fun,…

  • We asked, and our communities delivered ‘Holiday Mail for Heroes’

    Thanks to the generosity of our customers and community members, our stores collected thousands of cards and coloring pages between Nov. 17 and Dec. 5 to benefit the American Red Cross’ “Holiday Mail for Heroes” program. We delivered five bags filled with the donated cards and coloring pages to the Red Cross office in Harrisburg,…

  • You’re invited to our holiday open house, Nov. 29-30

    There’s no need to stop at Black Friday. What are you doing the rest of the weekend? Join us for our annual holiday open house. All of our stores will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. We’ll be offering: • 30 percent off Christmas silk arrangements…

  • Thanks for making our book drive another big success for public libraries

    In the spirit of the season, we’re so thankful to everyone who helped to make this year’s “Bouquets for Books” book drive a big success for our public libraries. We collected 1,452 new children’s books during the event, which ran Nov. 1-8. Here’s the breakdown by library system and the number of books donated in the…