KLEIN'S SHOPRITE, KLEIN FOUNDATION AND GROCERY CUSTOMERS DONATE TO SENATOR BOB HOOPER HOUSE

KLEIN'S SHOPRITE, KLEIN FOUNDATION AND GROCERY CUSTOMERS DONATE TO SENATOR BOB HOOPER HOUSE

Result of National Hospice Month in November 2012.

FOREST HILL, MD: Klein's ShopRite, Klein's ShopRite customers and the Klein Family Foundation have made a $2,084 donation to the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House in Forest Hill, as part of National Hospice Month, celebrated in November 2012.

Pictured (l. to r.): Ken Ferrara, Vice President & Executive Director, Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation, Inc.; Andrew Klein, President, Klein's ShopRite of Maryland; Beverly Dean-Crabtree, Executive Director, Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House, with a commemorative "big check" celebrating donations to the Hooper House in honor of National Hospice Month, November, 2012. The three are standing in front of the Tree of Life, a display in the Senator Bob Hooper House celebrating donations during 2012.

"During November, 2012, we encouraged shoppers in our six Harford County stores to make a donation to Harford County's first Hospice, the Senator Bob Hooper House, when they bought their groceries at the registers," says Andrew P. Klein, President of Klein's ShopRite. "My family's Foundation then matched the customer donations, dollar for dollar. We plan on increasing this program next fall and making it a strong part of our local support for the Hospice House," he adds.

In accepting the commemorative "big check" along with the real donation, Upper Chesapeake Foundation Vice President and Executive Director Ken Ferrara and Beverly Dean-Crabtree, Executive Director of the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House, expressed their thanks to the Klein family and to the support the Hooper Hospice House continues to receive from the greater Harford County community.

Located on Klein's Plaza Drive in Forest Hill, on approximately 2 acres donated by the Klein family, the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House, which opened in January 2011, was the first hospice in Harford County. The $3.3 million hospice, named for the popular state legislator who died in January, 2008, was built using much donated labor, materials and services, including monetary gifts from area businesses and from the Hooper family.

For more information, visit http://www.uchospice.org/.