Category: Fall

  • Kids club event Oct. 31 helps kick off book drive for public libraries

    It’s boos and bouquets Oct. 31 when we kick off our annual children’s book drive with a kids club event. Children ages 5 to 12 are asked to bring a new children’s book as the price of admission. Participants will get to make a fall arrangement (photo) and will receive a balloon. Because the event coincides…

  • 2015 ‘Bouquets for Books’ library wish lists

    Our annual children’s book drive — “Bouquets for Books” — marks its 10th year in 2015. It benefits the library systems in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties and the independent Hershey Public Library. To ensure that the libraries receive the books they need the most, they have provided these wish lists: BERKS…

  • ‘Bouquets for Books’ children’s book drive returns Oct. 31-Nov. 7

    Our annual children’s book drive is back for its 10th edition. “Bouquets for Books” returns Oct. 31-Nov. 7 to benefit public libraries in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. In its nine years, Bouquets for Books has collected nearly 14,000 books for the libraries. For each book, donors will receive a free bouquet, up…

  • Fox 43 Morning News features Royer’s annual children’s book drive

    You might say that Fox 43 Morning News carved out some time to talk about Halloween and, more so, Royer’s annual children’s book drive. Barry Spengler, Royer’s vice president of operations, joined host Chris Garrett to discuss “Bouquets for Books,” which returns for its ninth year Nov. 1-8. In its first eight years, the book…

  • The making of our fall catalog

    Our 40-page fall catalog arrived in tens of thousands of mailboxes in October. (If you didn’t receive one, you can pick up a copy at any of our stores.) With each of our catalogs, we change approximately 20 percent of the product lineup. Ultimately, it’s our customers who determine which arrangements stay in the lineup…

  • Straw poll: What do you think of the Camp Hill store’s scarecrows?

    It was a late-summer evening, but fall was in the air. There were no witches on brooms flying by, but a MetLife blimp passed overhead. The setting was our Camp Hill store, where the staff engaged in its annual scarecrow contest. This year’s event had a wedding theme. It’s an outdoor wedding, of course, and…