ShopRite donates $62K to children’s hospital

Tom Urtz, vice president of human resources and community affairs for ShopRite Supermarkets Inc., presented a $62,000 check to Dr. Michael Gewitz, Maria Fareri Children”™s Hospital physician-in-chief, at the Westchester Medical Center June 27.

Throughout the Hudson Valley, ShopRites partnered together to raise funds by collecting donations from customers at checkout lines. Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, serves patients from the Hudson Valley region and Fairfield County, Conn. Through the campaigning and support of associates and customers, Urtz said that ShopRite is honored to stand by the hospital”™s mission to help others and plans to partner with them in the future.

ShopRite, owned by Wakefern Food Corp. in Keasbey, N.J., has about 250 grocery store locations that serve more than 5 million customers weekly. Since 1999, ShopRite has donated more than $30 million to 1,700 charities and food banks and more than $24 million for schools, hospitals and community groups in the country.