WILLIAMSBURG With the help and generosity of its valued customers, Save A Lot on 1645 S. Highway 25 W. has donated nearly 1,520 bags of much-needed, high-quality food to
Bring on the holiday feasts; there’s more than enough food to go around in Whitley County this year, thanks in part to the generosity of the Cumberlands community, who donated 28,982 pounds of food to the university for the school’s annual fall food drive, Plates for a Purpose.
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Save-a-Lot hosted at least six grand re-openings on Wednesday for stores across Southeastern Kentucky.
“We have spent some money to remodel and update them. Now, we just wanted to have grand re-openings to kick things off right,” said Randal Young, the district manager for Houchens Industries. “It is exciting for us to update our stores.”
Two of the stores that hosted grand re-openings were those in Williamsburg and Jellico.
“It means a lot to the company. Our business has been growing with the pandemic,” said Williamsburg Save a Lot store manager Teddy Anders.
“We are just trying to sink some money into the community with ourbusiness, and trying to promote more and more business.”
Teddy Anders, the store manager for Save A Lot in Williamsburg, recently presented a $500 check to Travis Jones, the pastor at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church.
“Over the holidays for the month of November and December, we did a feed the needy holiday bag giveaway,” said Anders. “Customers purchase bags and they drop them off in the box. Once the box gets full, they [the church] comes by and picks it up.”
The Williamsburg Save A Lot store met the silver tier with corporate. Save A Lot corporate in return gave a $500 donation back to the Williamsburg store to give to the church, said Anders.