The Cumberland/Perry Community Support Program will hold a candlelight vigil at 6:30 p.m. Friday on the steps of the Old Cumberland County Courthouse as part of its celebration of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Oct. 6-12.
Royer’s, which has a store at 100 York Road, Carlisle, donated 200 candles for the vigil, which will feature Dennis Marion, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, inspirational stories of mental health recovery and entertainment.
For more information about this and other Mental Illness Awareness Week activities, click here.
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Win flowers for a year in ‘Petals to the Metal’ classic car and truck photo contest
There are classic flowers and classic automobiles. And they’re coming together for Royer’s “Petals to the Metal” classic car and truck photo contest.
The event is inspired by Royer’s 1969 Ford Econoline delivery van, which is on display at our flagship store in Lebanon.
In the meantime, we want to see what other cool classic cars and trucks can be found in the garages of Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. The best photo will be worth free flowers for a year – a fresh bouquet every month of 2014.
It’s simple to enter the contest. Just take a picture of you and your car and upload it to www.royers.com/contest. Be sure to include your name, phone number, address and a little bit about the car or truck: make, model, year, in particular, but also any other details you’d like to share, such as how and when you acquired it, pamper it, drive it.
The deadline for entries is Oct. 14. Five finalists will be selected and put up for a public vote on royers.com from Oct. 16-23.
Everyone who votes will receive a “buy one, get one free” coupon for loose bouquets, redeemable in-store only through Nov. 30.
The winner will be announced the week of Oct. 28.
Royer’s exclusive: Corazon rose
The poet and writer Gertrude Stein was wrong.
A rose is a rose is a rose, she said.
If she meant to suggest that all roses are alike, then she was wrong.
We’d like to introduce you to the Corazon rose. It’s unlike any other rose we sell. Don’t get us wrong, we love them all, no matter the variety. But they aren’t one and the same.
Which is why it’s going to take some educating in order for our customers to appreciate what sets Corazon apart from other rose varieties.
First, let’s start with the name: Corazon. It’s pronounced coh-rah-SOHN, and it means “heart” in Spanish.
Corazon only comes in red.
It is grown in Quito, Ecuador, high in the Andes Mountains, approximately 2,800 miles south of Harrisburg.
But a lot of flowers are grown in Quito, including other varieties of roses.
So what’s special about Corazon?
• Its bloom opens fully, like a garden rose
• Its bloom is extra large: almost 5 inches across
• Its petals re-curl at the margins, giving Corazon a classic look
• It lasts a long time: seven days given proper care.
Corazon was a blue-ribbon winner at the Society of American Florists’ most recent convention.
What’s more, Corazon is exclusive to Royer’s. No other florist in our market area can carry Corazon.
Tom Royer, our senior vice president and chief operating officer, has been making regular trips to flower farms in South America for decades. You’d expect that it takes a lot to impress him, right?
Color him impressed – the color red, of course – when it comes to Corazon.
“Number one, it’s the head size,” Tom said. “They’re incredible. The color is just absolutely gorgeous. And it looks like you cut the rose out of your garden.
“It’s all about the characteristics of the rose. Even though it opens quickly, it lasts a long time. I was shocked how long.”
Of course, what gives Corazon its unique appeal also makes for a unique challenge in getting customers to embrace it.
“It’s a test for us,” Tom said. “It’s exciting because it’s a different type of rose. Hopefully it will go really well and people will be mad at us because we don’t have enough of them.”
Schreiber Pediatric teen camp visits Royer’s corporate complex
We were thrilled to be a stop once again for Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center‘s teen camp, which provides participants with an opportunity to work on social skills and learn life skills during outings in the community.
The children toured much of Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon on Aug. 22. The teen camp has visited Royer’s for the past several years.
“Our thanks to Royer’s for helping us make this happen,” said Jay Graver, Schreiber’s director of educational services.
Based in Lancaster County, Schreiber offers outpatient physical, occupational and speech-language therapy to children with disabilities, developmental delays and acquired injuries.
Kids club members celebrate summer, look ahead to Oct. 26 event
Nat King Cole gave us “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer.”
The Royer’s Kids Club added “daisy” to the rhyming pattern with its Aug. 17 event. Available in each of our stores, the free event gave children ages 5 to 12 an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement.
The kids club’s final 2013 event is on Oct. 26, when all stores will celebrate Halloween and our annual “Bouquets for Books” book drive to benefit local libraries. We’ll provide more details in the weeks to come.
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Orla Egolf wins Royer’s Kids Club birthday card design contest
Paula Egolf is a professional artist, her acrylic paintings having been exhibited at juried shows, galleries and museums.
Apparently she’s also an inspiration to her 10-year old granddaughter Orla Egolf (photo).
Orla, a fourth-grader in the School District of Lancaster, is the winner of Royer’s Flowers & Gifts’ 2013 birthday card design contest. Her prize is a flower delivery on her next birthday.
“She’s very much her own person,” Paula Egolf said of Orla. “Since she was a baby, she has always had a very definite bent toward color and design.”
Orla’s design – comprising a cake with candles, bumble bees, smiley-face balloon and, of course, flowers – graces the electronic card that all Royer’s Kids Club members will receive on their birthdays in the coming year.
The Royer’s Kids Club is free to ages 5 to 12. With parental permission, children may register for the kids club at any Royer’s store or online at www.royers.com/kidsclub. Membership benefits include a membership card, Web site activities, an e-mail newsletter, contests and in-store events.
Sisters Annie and Maddie celebrate birthdays at Royer’s
Melissa Castellano is expecting her third child, a boy, in August. When he turns 5, he can join the Royer’s Kids Club.
“If his sisters have anything to say about it,” Melissa quipped.
Sisters Annie, 10, and Maddie, 6, are veterans of the kids club, although the family’s ties to Royer’s run even deeper than that.
When Annie was 3, she attended a holiday open house at our Harrisburg store. It snowed that morning, and to complete the festiveness of the day, Annie won an Advent calendar at the open house.
As Melissa said, Annie “has a bond with the store.”
The girls share August birthdays and like to have their parties together. This year, they wanted a garden party theme – and they wanted to celebrate at Royer’s.
Melissa broached the idea with Harrisburg store manager Shannon Fink at a kids club event. Shannon’s team was more than happy to oblige.
The Castellanos arrived an hour before to set up for the two-hour event. They brought birthday cake and other food, as well as clay pots for the 17 children.
While Annie’s group was eating in the store’s loft, which was decorated as a butterfly garden, Maddie’s party was decorating the pots in the store’s design room.
Melissa’s grandmother died in March, so this was the first time she wasn’t there for Annie and Maddie’s parties. In her honor, the children filled their pots with African violets, the grandmother’s favorite.
The day was a big hit with the birthday girls.
“They loved it,” Melissa said. “The girls said a couple times it was a dream come true to be let loose in a flower shop.”
Savor summer at free Royer’s Kids Club event Aug. 17 in all stores
It’s getting to be back-to-school time, but the Royer’s Kids Club isn’t letting go of summer easily.
For the next free kids club event, on Aug. 17, children ages 5 to 12 will have an opportunity to make a Sweet Summer Daisy Bowl arrangement. Participants also will receive a balloon.
Time slots are available at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at each of Royer’s 17 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties.
Registration is required by calling your nearest Royer’s store. Visit www.royers.com for locations and contact information.
For more information about Royer’s Kids Club, visit www.royers.com/kidsclub.
Susquehanna Style’s ‘Best of Lancaster’ edition picks Royer’s
The readers of Susquehanna Style magazine have voted Royer’s their favorite florist in Lancaster County.
The magazine dubbed its July issue the “Best of Lancaster” edition.
Royer’s has five Lancaster County stores: Columbia, Ephrata, Lancaster North, Lancaster West and Leola.
In June, Royer’s was named top florist in Susquehanna Style’s “Best of Harrisburg Edition.”
Royer’s voted ‘Best of Harrisburg’ by Susquehanna Style readers
Royer’s Flowers & Gifts is the florist of choice for the readers of Susquehanna Style magazine.
The glossy monthly publication dubbed June its “Best of Harrisburg Edition,” featuring the best local businesses as voted by its readers.
Royer’s has two Harrisburg-area stores and one in Camp Hill among its 17 stores in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York counties.
Click here for the complete list of locations.