WELLINGTON GARDEN CLUB RECEIVES WHOLE FOODS MARKET DONATION
Wellington, FL – December 22, 2013 – Lauren Belinsky, Marketing Team Leader of Whole Foods Market Wellington, announced that Wellington Garden Club is the recipient of over $4,000 following Whole Foods’ recent 5% Days Kids Appreciation event. According to Belinsky, “Whole Foods 5% Days are one way we give back to our community by donating 5% of the day’s net sales to a local non-profit organization.” Upon hearing of the donation, the club’s president, Twig Morris, responded, “We’re ecstatic! Whole Foods’ generosity will make a world of difference to the kids in our many junior garden club programs. We have ambitious goals for our junior programs and this will help us realize those goals quickly.” The donation, which also will benefit the club’s summer camp scholarship programs, will be presented to Wellington Garden Club by Belinsky at its regular monthly meeting on January 6 at the Wellington Community Center.
Wellington Garden Club actively participates in a wide variety of civic beautification projects and has formed junior garden clubs at six local schools ranging from elementary to high schools. It also provides financial assistance to youth who attend summer environmental and nature camps sponsored by the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, as well as annual scholarship awards to students at Palm Beach State College who are pursuing horticulture and environmental studies. For more information: www.wellingtongardenclub.org.
Whole Foods Market is the world’s largest retailer of natural and organic foods with more than 360 stores throughout North America and the United Kingdom. The company’s motto — Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet — emphasizes a vision that reaches far beyond just being a food retailer. Success is measured by customer satisfaction, team member happiness and excellence, return on capital investment, improvement in the state of the environment and local and larger community support. For more information: www.wholefoodsmarket.com