WEGMANS AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO EMPLOYEES IN CONCORDVILLE, NATIONWIDE

Wegmans Food Markets recently announced the Wegmans Employee Scholarship Program will award college tuition assistance to 2,019 new recipients for the upcoming academic year, the most scholarships ever awarded in a single year by the familyowned company. The company expects to pay out approximately $5.1 million in tuition assistance to both new and returning scholarship recipients during the 2017-2018 school year. Customers, scholarship recipients and all 2017 graduates, celebrated at Wegmans with celebration cakes on Saturday, May 20.

This year’s list of recipients includes 200 students who participate in the Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection (HWSC), a program that helps youth stay in school, earn their high school diplomas and prepare for secondary education or employment. As an employment partner for the program in Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo, N.Y., as well as Prince George’s County, Md., Wegmans provides part-time employment opportunities for students and connects them with individualized resources and experiences to help them achieve success.

Since the program began in 1984, more than 35,000 Wegmans employees have been awarded scholarships totaling $110 million.

The 2017-18 academic year recipients at Wegmans’ Concordville location are: Brooke Bolling, Gabriel Clark, Nicholas Clark, Mollie Dennis, Emily Goodman-Joines, Jeffrey Gualtieri, Jacalyn Hamilton, Jadayah Hunter, Rebecca Jones, Amy Kelly, Tim O’Hara, Austin Staton, Gevin Sweeney, Elisabeth Taylor, Shaniyah Thomas, Brennan Wagner, Jeffrey Wilson.