Severna Park Chick-Fil-A Joins Annual Serve Tour

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By Maya Pottiger

On Friday, June 7, roughly 100 people spent six hours volunteering around Anne Arundel County as part of Chick-fil-A’s Serve Tour.

The Serve Tour invites approximately 30 people from the Severna Park, Annapolis and Waugh Chapel-Crofton Chick-fil-A locations on a first-come-first-served basis. At the end of the day, the volunteers were awarded with a party and a year of free Chick-fil-A. This was the first year that Severna Park participated in the tour.

“As a whole, we wanted to help our community to give back to make them feel like they’re part of the big picture,” said Teresa Bennett, marketing director for the Severna Park location, “but also wanted to open everyone’s eyes about Orphan Grain Train and see that it’s important to serve.”

Now in its third year, the Serve Tour was created from the First 100, which awards the first 100 guests at a new Chick-fil-A with a year of free food. Instead of camping out overnight, participants did a road trip around town to benefit the community.

“It had such a huge impact on the people that participated, as well as the community that we served,” said Amanda Shultz, the vice president of marketing and catering for the Edgewater, Annapolis and Annapolis Mall stores. “We’re hoping it continues after the Serve Tour. That people, now that they know about these different opportunities, they can continue to volunteer on their own. It gets everybody feeling connected.”

During this year’s Serve Tour, volunteers stopped at the Arundel House of Hope, the Naval base, Walk the Walk Foundation and ended at Orphan Grain Train. At Orphan Grain Train, volunteers rotated between five stations.

“We have a great relationship with the Severna Park Chick-fil-A,” said Elfie Eberle, the branch manager of Orphan Grain Train in Millersville. “They said, ‘We’d like to do a service project.’ We were thrilled. We’re all volunteers, so they’re coming to the right place.”

While at Orphan Grain Train, volunteers watched a video to learn about the organization, toured the warehouse, sorted donations, weeded the property and packed feminine hygiene kits that will be sent to Liberia and South Sudan.

“It gets people into this building,” Eberle said. “Now they know where we are, they know what we do, and I’m hoping and praying that they will want to get involved.”

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